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DR. JOHN

Tuesday, July 12 • 7 pm
Spaulding Auditorium
$28 • Dartmouth students $5

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Dr. John embodies the heart and soul of New Orleans, from his '70s funkadelic ID as Dr. John The Night Tripper to his new CD N'Awlinz: Dis, Dat or D'udda. A four-time Grammy winner with “a gumbo-simmering voodoo piano style and a bluesy growl” (Tampa Tribune), he took his name from a 19th-century African occult practitioner and molded his style after the R&B/jazz traditions of Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong. But with his enduring legacy as Dr. John—a musical shaman mixing hoodoo incantations; gritty street refrains from Louisiana's Black, French and Indian cultures; and “fonky” blues—he's “created one of the most recognizable celebrities in New Orleans cultural history” (New Orleans Gambit).

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