Gig Alerts: The Ginger Ninjas
Thursday, November 18, 2010
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The Ginger Ninjas (Courtesy of Artists)
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The Ginger Ninjas
"Little Door"
Playing at: Barbès (376 9th St., Park Slope)
Get: Tickets ($10 at door) | Directions
If you think a world tour requires leaving a significant carbon footprint behind, the groove roots outfit The Ginger Ninjas is here to prove you wrong. These folks are off-the-grid in every way imaginable. Lead by singer songwriter and activist Kipchoge Spencer, the band rode 5,000 miles on an epic bicycle adventure from Northern California to Southern Mexico. During live performances, the band hauls out its mobile human-powered stage that generates energy from audience members pedaling stationary bikes on stage. (No plugs required!) They say they avoid generating close to 60,000 pounds of CO2 this way, or 95% of what a similar-sized band would create. “Our mission,” says Spencer, “is to weave strangely beautiful music with a subversively simple, out-of-bounds lifestyle.” Download "Little Door" here, or check out the band’s "Pleasant Revolution Tour" footage from 2007 below.
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