Antibalas(Cancelled)

Antibalas play Dimitriou's Jazz Alley on Friday, October 16, at 9:30 PM. The Brooklyn-based afrobeat ensemble has been around since the fall of 1997, when Martín Perna formed the group after conceiving it in Mexico City. Their name is Spanish for 'bullet-proof.'

Since their first album in 1999, they've built a global following and lent their musicians to artists across a wide range of genres. That list includes TV on the Radio, Clairo, El Michels Affair, Amy Winehouse, The Roots, The Black Keys, Santigold, Arcade Fire, and Jovanotti. Their musicianship also landed them the role of house band for the Obie-winning Broadway musical FELA!, and later the Carnegie Hall house band for all-star tributes to Aretha Franklin (2017), David Byrne and Talking Heads (2015), and Paul Simon (2014), as well as the Music of Billie Holiday at the Apollo Theater (2017).

Their ninth album, Hourglass, came out through Daptone Records and was recorded in November 2022 at Studio G in Brooklyn. It followed the Grammy-nominated Fu Chronicles, and Rolling Stone described it as 'a raucous, joyous celebration of Afrobeat!'

Tickets are $47.00, and the show starts at 9:30 PM on Friday, October 16, at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, 2033 6th Avenue Suite 255 in Seattle.