Normal Bean performing with members of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Ms Lacy with Rappin’ 4-Tay, Dr Bob, Liquid Light Steve

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WOW Hall

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On Saturday, February 25, the CCPA and University of Oregon Campus Radio 88.1 FM KWVA proudly welcome the "ExtravaGanja" tour featuring the Normal Bean Band performing with members of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony along with special guests.

ExtravaGanja tour is An All Star Cast featuring different artists from Bones Thugs-N-Harmony (Layzie, Flesh N, Bizzy), Ms Lacy with Rappin 4 Tay, Dr. Bob, plus special guest Liquid Light Steve. Come take a journey on a visual and musical adventure of historic events set to a hip-hop-hippie jam combo!

Normal Bean and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony first got together at the 2011 Sacramento Hempfest. Warren G was up first, then BT&H, followed by Normal Bean Band. The Bone brothers were impressed with the guitar antics of Normal Bean at the show, and the following morning before the encore show, they asked Normal to sit in with them on a side project tour. The magic was created. Combining the talents of BT&H's vocal power with Normal’s hippie vibe made for an instant musical success. Taking hip-hop to the next level by combining it with a live jam band, the new hippie-hip-hop combo will kick out some old BT&H classics as well as in the moment new jams.

While on the "ExtravaGanja" tour, Flesh N’ Normal is set to record a new single for release by GRA Records out of San Francisco.

BONE THUGS-N-HARMONY

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony began in Cleveland in 1991. It originally consisted of five rappers but currently consists of Layzie Bone, Flesh-n-Bone and Bizzy Bone. The band debuted in late 1993 with the hit single "Thuggish Ruggish Bone".

A tribute to the recently deceased Eazy-E, "Tha Crossroads”, off the second album E. 1999 Eternal, won Bone Thugs-N-Harmony a Grammy award in 1997. In 2000 the album Resurrection reached platinum in one month.

The group went on hiatus before returning in 2007 with the major label release Strength & Loyalty, this time released by Swizz Beatz's label Full Surface Records. Their newest album Uni-5: The World's Enemy was released in 2010 by their own record label, BTNH Worldwide, with distribution by Warner Bros.

Due to internal conflicts, longtime members Krayzie Bone and Wish Bone officially left the group in April 2011. Despite speculation that the group was splitting up, Flesh-n-Bone announced that a new album with him, Layzie and Bizzy will be released soon.

NORMAL BEAN

Normal Bean is an amazing front man who has been working the crowds all over the States for umpteen years. He gets them on their feet and off their heads playing his guitar frontwards, backwards, behind his head and every other way. But it’s not just showmanship, it’s the jams and grooves that have made audiences demand more Bean again and again.

This longtime musical journeyman has worked with Three Dog Night, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Merry Pranksters, Kid Rock, Buddy Rich, Lee Garrett and Dark Star Orchestra, and Warren G, to name just a few. A prolific songwriter himself, Normal is also the star of The Normal Bean Show, a cable television series shown up and down the West Coast.

Just like the experiments of the Sixties, the Normal Bean Band can be formed into other permutations, incorporating live painters and dancers onstage and other guest artists ranging from John Lennon band alumni Ken Peterson to New York radical David Peel to Lester Chamber of The Chamber Brothers to practically anyone else.

4-Tay made his debut on the Too Short album Life Is...Too Short, back in 1991, and followed up in 1994 with Don't Fight the Feelin', which included the hits "Playaz Club" (which sampled the song "Private Number" by William Bell and Judy Clay and hit #36 on the Billboard Hot 100), the "Dank Season" featuring Seff Tha Gaffla, and "I'll Be Around" (which hit #39 on the Billboard Hot 100).

In 1995, two Rappin' 4-Tay songs -- "Problems" and "A Message For Your Mind" - were featured on the Dangerous Minds soundtrack. "A Message For Your Mind" sampled “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5.

In 2003 Rappin' 4-Tay released the album Gangsta Gumbo with the single "Burning, Burning", followed up by the album That's What You Thought in 2007.

As a percussionist, Ms. Lacy has performed live and in studio with Sam Bostic, Velvet Jones, Elizabeth Vandervennet, Sister Carol and the Yellow Dubb Squad, DWayne Wiggins, Mimi Fox, David Martin, Ras Attitude, Jah Sun, Ishi Dube and the Masagana Band, Dallon Santos, and a host of other jazz, soul and reggae artists.

Ms. Lacy performed her first release, Urban Masterpiece, with a nine piece ensemble at the Concord Chronicle Pavilion. Ms. Lacy has written and/or produced tracks for Mc Eiht, Spice 1, Rappin’ 4 Tay, Ashanti "Rock Wit U", and Sean T.

Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 at the door. Doors open at 8:00 pm and showtime is 9:00.