This spring, master bassist Victor Wooten will hit the road this spring with his Victor Wooten Band, in addition to a select group of students from his immersive Wooten Woods music and nature camps.
Known for their funky/jazzy music and powerful unpredictable performances, The Victor Wooten Band—comprised of his brothers Regi Wooten and Joseph Wooten on guitar and keyboards and Derico Watson on drums—will play “a dynamic mixture of old and new music mixed with improvisations jams and classic cover songs.”
In addition, fellow musicians and educators Steve Bailey, Bob Franceschini, Bob Hemenger, and a select group of students from Victor Wooten’s Center for Music and Nature will add to the extravaganza. For the first time ever, Wooten and friends will include an audience participation demonstration of the educational program that has helped and inspired countless people worldwide.
Wooten is not just an accomplished musician, but also an acrobat, magician, and skilled naturalist who created Victor Wooten’s Center for Music and Nature in 2000. The 147-acre camp retreat in Tennessee is open people of all ages, and helps students focus on the relationship between music, nature, and life. Through highly interactive programs on topics such as music, nature, community, and creativity, Wooten aims to enhance students’ abilities with tools that can be used to enrich their personal lives as well. In addition to a spectacular night of music, The Wooten Woods Experience Tour will give audiences a glimpse into the magic that happens at Wooten’s Center for Music and Nature.
“Music is a great way – and a safe way – to teach just about any life principle,” Wooten declares in a press release. “To be in a band, you have to listen to each other. Bands are at their best when every instrument is different, not the same. Everyone takes turns talking and everyone speaks with their own voice. A lot of times musicians might ask, ‘What would you like me to play?’ I say, ‘Listen to the music. The music will tell you exactly what it needs.’”
In addition to the newly announced tour, Victor Wooten will join Bela Fleck and the Flecktones on their 2019 30th-anniversary tour, which the band promises will be “their most extensive tour in years.”
See below for a full list of dates on the upcoming Victor Wooten Band/Wooten Woods Experience tour. For ticketing and further information, head here.
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