Like all good and helpful neighbors, TAE & The Neighborly believe that music is meant to be shared. You can experience this spirited show in the Tomorrow River neighborhood on Friday, May 3, at the Jensen Community Center Theater featuring soul, funk, and original songs.
Come early to begin the night with a reception at 6 p.m. Choose from an assortment of handheld bites for purchase by Ruby Coffee and bar drinks from the Jensen Community Center. Doors to the theater open at 6:30 p.m., and the show starts at 7 p.m.
TAE & The Neighborly, a Wisconsin based soul-pop and R&B group, found themselves playing music together in a very unconventional way. They were all neighbors, each one living alone on one floor of a five-story flat. Cake baking is a shared passion of the five-member group, but in the sugar shortages early in the 2020 pandemic, they found themselves continually knocking on each other’s doors asking for a single cup of sugar that a group decision was made to all move in together and share cake-baking resources. And since everyone knows all good rhythms begin in the kitchen, it wasn’t long before the group began to write and perform together across the nation.
Critics hail the group as “having more kick than a bagged-up mule” (Rotary Times) and their live show “…going down smoother than a can of [beans] warmed on the campfire” (Cowboy Gazette). The band themselves call their shows “inspiration fuel for self lovin’ [and] world changin’” and includes Tae, Daniel Pingrey, Kelvin Kaspar, David Blessent, and Andy Welsch.
Advance reserved tickets ($15 or $12 student) are on sale now at jensencommunitycenter.ticketspice.com/tae through May 3 at 11 a.m. Any remaining tickets will be sold for $20/$15 at the door.
For further information, visit jensencenter.org, or call 715-824-5202.