Forecast calls for fun: Afrolicious in Crown Room

Afrolicious conga player Diamond Vibe at the 2014 High Sierra Music Festival. Tahoe Onstage file/ Tim Parsons
Afrolicious conga player Diamond Vibe at the 2014 High Sierra Music Festival.
Tahoe Onstage file/ Tim Parsons

Another gale is called for on Friday at Lake Tahoe and it has nothing to do with the weather: Afrolicious is coming back to town.

Every time the Bay Area band hits the stage it’s a full-blown dance party.

Band leader Joe Cheo “Pleasuremaker” McGuire told Tahoe Onstage what it feels like for him.

“It’s an electrical charge,” he said. “Time freezes, you feel weightlessness and you have total awareness. You are definitely entering the spiritual realm.”

The Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room performance will be free, as is the Red Room after-party with Planet Booty

The band formed out of a Thursday night Afrolicious party in the Elbo Room in the Mission District. After three years, band members began to write original material. The size of the group varies and sometimes has as many as 12 members.

Good times are had by all at an Afrolicious show. “It’s a higher calling type of thing when you know you are doing the thing you love the most in the world and other people are loving it, too,” Pleasuremaker said.

  • Afrolicious
    When: 10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13
    Where: Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room
    Cover: free
    Red Room after-party: Planet Booty, 12:30 a.m.

 

 

ABOUT Tim Parsons

Tim Parsons
Tim Parsons is the editor of Tahoe Onstage who first moved to Lake Tahoe in 1992. Before starting Tahoe Onstage in 2013, he worked for 29 years at newspapers, including the Tahoe Daily Tribune, Eureka Times-Standard and Contra Costa Times. He was the recipient of the 2011 Keeping the Blues Alive award for Journalism.

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