Shaka & The SoulShakers
Chester, Connecticut, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2011 | SELF
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The winning duo Bill "Swamp" Shaka with Tony C. hit The Chamard Vineyards.
- Middletown Press
"as seen on" Anticipation is growing as the International Blues Challenge in Memphis draws near. The Connecticut representatives are getting ready. This Sunday the Connecticut Blues Society is helping with a Memphis Fundraiser for the solo/duo winners, Bill “Swamp” Shaka & Tony C.
- Middletown Press
As seen on the cover of CT Blues Society Magazine November 2011 - Connecticut Blues Society
http://archives.wpkn.org/bookmarks/listen/17102 - WPKN BRIDGEPORT CT
Former New Orleanian Bill Shaka will take you down a heartfelt excursion through the Acadiana prairies and swamplands of south Louisiana and then drop you smack dab int he middle of the sweltering FONK. Big Easy style. Whether he's conjuring up images of heartache and betrayal or serving up doses of tongue in cheek humor, Shaka will have you ridin' shotgun with escapades encountered along the back roads, highways, bayous and byways supported by a band of sympathetic band of groovin rooticians THE SOULSHAKERS. Shaka and company ar libing proof that there is indeed healing power in a brand of mu-jic appropriately call a RHYTHM 'N' ROLL SWAMP SOUL GUMBO - The Buttonwood Tree
Musicians truly represent a medley of musical performing everything from Zydeco and Gospel to Jazz and Rhythm and Blues. At the Funky Pirate we listened to Shaka and the Swamp Tones tear down the house with blue grass music that kept the crowd dancing to the beat! - Taste Magazine
Discography
Still working on that hot first release.
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Bio
Shaka
& The SoulShakers are a high energy Americana-Roots-R&B outfit
led by New Orleans transplant and front man Shaka.
Shaka
settled in southern CT after losing his home during the devastating
floods bought on in the wake of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005.
Honesty,
Energy, and Entertainment, is Shaka's motto, adding... "one never knows
what combustible form of spontaneity will rear it's head during a live
SoulShakers performance".
Ever
the road warrior, Shaka has spent considerable time in Europe appearing
on the club and festival circuit there as well as here in the
states, but is quick to point
out that performing full time on the Big Easy's Bourbon Street has
certainly helped to sharpen his skills as a showman and shape him into
the showman he is today, further adding... "if you couldn't belt a
Carny's bark and back your ballyhoo on Bourbon you weren't worth
your salt as a live performer".
In
2013 Shaka & The SoulShakers C.D. "Heard A Mighty Rumblin" was
voted Best Self Produced Blues C.D. in the state of Connecticut.
In
both 2011 & 2013 the SwampShaka Duo represented the state of Connecticut
at the I.B.C.'s in Memphis, Tennessee.
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