THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND TO STREAM ALL 13 NEW YORK CITY SHOWS AT UNITED PALACE THEATRE LIVE ON MOOGIS.COM

DATE:  FEBRUARY 17, 2010

FROM: TODD BRODGINSKI/BARI LIEBERMAN

THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND

TO STREAM ALL 13 NEW YORK CITY SHOWS
AT UNITED PALACE THEATRE
LIVE ON MOOGIS.COM

THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND have announced the return of the subscription website WWW.MOOGIS.COM where fans can get live streams of their annual New York City residency this March at the United Palace Theatre (formerly known as the 175th Street Theatre).  Fans of the band who aren’t able to attend any of their upcoming 13 shows beginning March 11 and wrapping March 27–or those who want to re-live the experience later–will be able to experience all the concerts from the comfort of their own home via MOOGIS which debuted last year.

MOOGIS is the brainchild of ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND founding member and drummer BUTCH TRUCKS who had been working on the site for five years before its launch (“moogis” was what his infant son said when he wanted “music”).  Numerous state-of-the-art video cameras will be positioned throughout the venue, as well as in the dressing rooms and the lobby, capturing the whole concert experience for Moogis subscribers.

For a subscription price that’s less than the cost of a front-row ticket, Moogis gives fans the chance see both live and archived webcasts of the Allman Brothers Band shows in addition to other exclusive content (both video and audio) dating back to 2000 and be a part of a social network of like-minded music fans. The site launched in March 2009 when it aired the entire ABB 40th Anniversary Beacon Theatre run of 15 sold-out shows in near-HD quality without a hitch and plans to expand their services to feature artists from other genres in 2010.

For the first time since 1989, the Allman Brothers are moving the show uptown to the United Palace Theatre due to a scheduling conflict at the Beacon Theatre. As always, expect the band–GREGG ALLMAN (vocals and keyboards), BUTCH TRUCKS (drums and tympani), JAIMOE (drums), WARREN HAYNES (vocals, lead and slide guitar), DEREK TRUCKS (slide and lead guitar), OTEIL BURBRIDGE (bass) and MARC QUINONES (congas and percussion)—to be joined by a wide variety of special guest musicians.

In 2009, the group kicked off their 40th anniversary tour with 15 shows at the Beacon Theatre and welcomed a wide variety of special guest musicians.  Paying homage to the group’s late co-founder Duane Allman, the band were joined onstage by the likes of Eric Clapton (two nights), Grateful Dead co-founders Bob Weir and Phil Lesh, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, members of Phish and Widespread Panic as well as Bruce Hornsby, Sheryl Crow, Boz Scaggs, Buddy Guy, Robert Randolph, Levon Helm, Johnny Winter, Susan Tedeschi, Chuck Leavell, the Asbury Jukes horn section, Bruce Willis, Kid Rock and others. As David Sprague of Daily Variety noted in his review, “The Allman Brothers' annual March run at Gotham's Beacon Theater has become something of a harbinger of spring, bringing with it a palpable sense of renewal…that sweet interlude soon gave way to a surprisingly fierce, intriguingly dark batch of standards that underscored the fact that the earliest version of the ensemble was called the Allman Brothers Blues Band for a very good reason (3/10/09).”  

For more information, go to www.allmanbrothersband.com and www.moogis.com

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