Derek Trucks Band Gives Concert to Benefit “Fields for Kids”

Saturday, November 17 at MHS

by Jeff Levere

Who: The Derek Trucks Band What: Concert To Benefit Fields For Kids When: Saturday, November 17th. Time: Doors open at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. Where: MHS McClain Auditorium Cost: $45; $35 Purchase Tickets & More Info: mhsdtbtickets@gmail.com

(October 10, 2007) The Derek Trucks Band will be performing a concert in McClain Auditorium at Mamaroneck High School on November 17, presented by the MHS Concert Committee. The net proceeds will be donated to “Fields for Kids,” a community-based organization supporting safe and up-to-date playing fields for school- and community-run sports programs in Larchmont and Mamaroneck. Doors open at 7:00 pm and the concert will begin at 8:00 pm.

Rave reviews for The Derek Trucks Band have followed this band ever since it was first formed more than ten years ago. The Wall Street Journal wrote, “Three things worth knowing about Derek Trucks: He is young, he is a veteran, and he is the most awe-inspiring electric slide guitar player performing today.”

Derek Trucks; photo by Jeff Levere

Derek Trucks first picked up a guitar at the age of nine at a yard sale, claiming, “It was just the only thing that looked interesting.” He was such a natural that within a year he was touring, with his father serving as his manager. At the age of twelve, Mr. Trucks formed his first band. By 2002, the Derek Trucks Band was complete with members Mike Mattison, Todd Smallie, Kofi Burbridge, Yonrico Scott, and Count M’Butu.

The Derek Trucks Band

The Derek Trucks Band takes a progressive approach to roots music, blending rock, blues, jazz, and world music into the sound that now defines the DTB. The band is known for their amazing live performances, led by Mr. Trucks's soaring guitar work and backed by the impressive individual talents of the members of the band. Just 27 years old, Mr. Trucks was recently featured on the cover of the Rolling Stone in its “New Guitar Gods” issue. The magazine wrote about him: “The spiritual poise and uncanny vocal fire of Trucks’ solo and slide flourishes are rooted in his deep studies of not just blues but jazz and Indian music.”

In 2006, Mr. Trucks was asked to join legend Eric Clapton's world tour as a featured soloist in his band, a tour extending into the spring of 2007. On the road over 300 days per year, the guitarist currently divides his time between The Derek Trucks Band and The Allman Brothers Band.

Harry Smith of CBS News has said of Trucks: “I’m beginning to believe their young guitarist Derek Trucks may be the best at his instrument I’ve ever heard. I was awestruck by his brilliant facility, but his dazzling fingers almost mask his even-more-impressive musicianship. He is an improvisational wonder – rich, death-defying licks infused with a catalogue of influences.”

Tickets are available through email at mhsdtbtickets@gmail.com and are priced at $45 for the first twenty rows of the floor and the first two rows of the balcony, and $35 for the rest of the auditorium. All email orders should include name, price level, and number of tickets. The concert is being supported by presenting sponsors United Stage Associates and PEER 97 Music Group and participating sponsors Stop & Shop and Applebee’s.

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