Based in Asheville, NC, Afromotive is helping to start a new wave of uptempo afrobeat music- fusing West African rhythms, song forms, and instrumentation with funk, improvisation, and straight-ahead dance beats. Their upcoming appearance at White Horse Black Mountain is going to be an all-out party event. Zabumba Samba Troupe opens the show!!! This will be Afromotive's final concert of 2009 and they're pulling out all the stops.
As a special VIP treat, the first 40 fans to respond can purchase a VIP ticket which includes the price of admission PLUS a ride from Asheville to Black Mountain and back on the LaZoom Bus. The LaZoom Bus will be picking people up at 7pm and dropping them back off in Asheville after the show ends. Special holiday treat for those VIP's on the LaZoom party bus, members of Afromotive will be entertaining their fans all the way to Black Mountain
$25 dollars includes the LaZoom Bus ride plus admission to the concert.
For VIP tickets Email afromotive@gmail.com
Concert Tickets are also available online at http://www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/tickets.html
Check out the Concert entry on Facebook
Afromotive is led by thirty-third generation djembe 
player Adama Dembele from Cote d‘Ivoire. He has toured several continents, performing with various major acts such Oumou Sangare, Salif Keita, Affou Keita, Sogona Djata and many others. These traditional West African rhythms combined with a mentality that moves beyond pure traditionalism and into new realms of musical possibilities is what Afromotive brings to its audiences. It's a sound that crosses musical and ethnic boundaries.
"It's all about the beat...The pulsating rhythms of afrobeat have crossed cultures and continents to carve out a groove that has touched the backbone of generations of funk lovers... The sounds 
of West Africa now resonate through the mountains of North Carolina courtesy of Asheville's Afromotive." -Grant Britt, Creative Loafing.
The Afromotive have become festival favorites whereever they've played including appearances at :
Bonnaroo (2008)
Joshua Tree Music Festival (2008)
Bear Creek Music Festival (2008)
Trinumeral Festival (2008)
Asheville Music Jamboree (2007-08)
Bele Chere (2007-08)
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
Afromotive has some great stuff in store for 2010; lots of new music and a new album; Adama Dembele and Ryan Reardon will be heading to Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) this winter where Adama is from. They will be bringing other Asheville friends to visit Adama's family, this will be his first time home in 4 years so there will be lots of celebrating, traditional African music, jam sessions, African dancing, music studies (Balafon, drums, & bass). The travelers will be keeping a video & audio record as well as a blog of their activities so stay tuned to their website for more info on that. WNC Magazine's associate editor Melissa Smith will be along for the journey and will also be writing about her travel experience to the Ivory Coast with Afromotive.
http://www.theafromotive.com/
http://www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/
