Another big moment came in 2013, when the band collaborated with singer Lalah Hathaway on the Grammy-winning song Something, from the album Family Dinner – Volume One. A first European tour soon followed, and the Snarky’s popularity has continued to grow since then. The sessions were videotaped and a strong campaign on YouTube and social media saw the band finally break through to a wider audience. The 2010 album Tell Your Friends was a breakthrough, as the band put their gigging experience (and what they’d learned about promotion) to good use. And so it was that Bobby Sparks, Mark Lettieri, Bernard Wright, and Shaun Martin came to join the Snarky family. League and a couple of bandmates moved to nearby Dallas, where they immersed themselves in the gospel and Rn’B scenes, impressing local musicicans and persuading them to guest with the band. For the first ten years of its existence, the band criss-crossed the States playing all manner of dives wherever the bookers would have them. The band quickly clicked, on both a musical and a personal level, and, following their live debut at J&J Pizza on the main square and a handful of gigs at other obscure Denton venues, League decided to record their debut album The Only Constant on a shoestringl budget, and to book their first ever tour of small clubs and student parties between Texas and League’s native Virginia. Denton is the home of the first ever faculty of jazz, founded in 1947and one of whose graduates is Michael League, who founded Snarky Puppy as a ten-piece band for the purposes of a school project. It all began in Denton, Texas – a small town with a big musical heritage. ![]() They come to Lucerna fresh from winning a Grammy for the album Live at the Royal Albert Hall. Prague debut for the genre-defying band who have won awards in categories from jazz to R&B.
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