BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Kaleta &\; Super Yamba Band X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20221106T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20221106T060000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Kaleta &\; Super Yamba Band DESCRIPTION:ADVANCE PURCHASE: $25\nAT THE DOOR: $35\n10% MEMBER DISCOUNT \n\nBrooklyn’s Kaleta &\; Super Yamba Band are fronted by Afrobeat and Juju veteran Leon Ligan-Majek a.k.a. Kaleta. The singer/guitarist fr om the West African country of Benin Republic lived his adolescent life in Lagos\, Nigeria where Afrobeat was born. Kaleta’s guitar chops earn ed him decades of touring and recording with Fela Kuti\, King Sunny Ade\ , Lauryn Hill and more.\n\nKaleta got his start in the late 70s performi ng in church and was soon after picked up by iconic Juju master and worl d music pioneer King Sunny Ade. A few years later Fela Kuti came calling . Kaleta would go on to tour the world playing guitar for the King of Af robeat in his storied band Egypt 80 through the 1980s and into the 1990s .\n\nNow based in New York City\, Kaleta has been leading Super Yamba Ba nd since 2017. Their debut album “Mèdaho\,” which was released by C alifornia indie label Ubiquity Records\, draws on the group’s shared r everence for the raw\, psychedelic sounds that captivated Kaleta as a mu sic loving kid in 1970s Benin. Mèdaho means “big brother\,” “elde r” or “teacher” and is dedicated to Kaleta’s late brother Ligan- Ozavino Pascal who introduced him to funk and soul music at a very early age. The album was included on Bandcamp’s “Best Albums of Summer 20 19” list and two of the songs were chosen for the ABC/Hulu series High Fidelity staring Zoe Kravitz.\n\nKaleta and his band have also erupted onto the stages and video screens of major music festivals and music pub lications across the US. They performed at the historic Apollo Theatre i n 2019. They even prompted Action Bronson to stop his own show on VICELA ND TV just so he could hear more Yamba. They also performed on Adult Swi m’s Fishcenter Live show in 2019. In 2017 they rocked Paste Magazine s Emerging Music Festival in NYC and after that performance Afropop Wor ldwide fell in love with Kaleta\, saying “his James Brown grunts have got to be some of the best in the business!” URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/kaleta-super-yamba-band-2 / UID:urn:uuid:867403b2-4ba7-41f1-a7e3-93404d6a03f5 STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260803T042228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230106T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230106T220000 LOCATION:181 State St.\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR