Seu Jorge @ Bowery Ballroom, NYC | pics (part 2)

September 19, 2005

Two nights before my pre-CMJ show at Tonic, Seu Jorge from Brazil played the first of two nights at Bowery Ballroom in NYC (September 11, 2005).

The crowd was a mix of world music fans that included Portuguese speaking Brazilians and people curious to see the guy that sings David Bowie cover songs in Wes Anderson’s Life Aquatic. Nobody was disappointed with what they saw/heard, though the Portuguese speakers had a slightly different experience. They actually knew what Jorge was saying (during and between the songs).

He opened with two solo Portuguese Bowie covers, played a full set of his music, and closed with three more Bowie songs. The whole thing was magical. The band never stopped smiling, and in turn neither did the crowd. They even helped break the though-shall-not-dance curse that seems to plague Bowery Ballroom. People were moving. I swear.