Formed in 1987, in Philadelphia, PA, the legendary Roots Crew, consists of Black Thought (MC), Ahmir \u201c?uestlove\u201d Thompson (drums), Kamal Gray (electronic keyboards), F. Knuckles (percussion), Captain Kirk Douglas (electronic guitar), Damon Bryson (sousaphone) and James Poyser (electronic keyboard). Having previously released twelve projects, The Roots have become one of the best known and most respected hip-hop acts in the business, winning four Grammys, including \u201cBest R&B Album\u201d for Wake Up!, \u201cBest Traditional R&B Vocal Performance\u201d for \u201cHang in There\u201d (with John Legend) and \u201cBest Group or Duo R&B Vocal Performance\u201d for \u201cShine.\u201d The ensemble was most recently nominated for \u201cBest Rap Album\u201d for the 2011 release of undun. This brings the band\u2019s GRAMMY nomination count to twelve. Additionally, The Roots have also become the faces of Philly\u2019s \u201cFourth of July Jam,\u201d an annual concert held during the Fourth of July with the biggest names in music, and \u201cThe Roots Picnic,\u201d a yearly star-studded mix of musicians, that has become a celebrated institution during awards season. Recently The Roots were named one of the greatest live bands around by Rolling Stone, became the official house band on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where they currently perform every Monday- Friday. The Roots celebrated the release of their 11th studio album \u2026and then you shoot your cousin in May 2014.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2018Tis the season for gigantic concert announcements, apparently. Grammy award-winning hip-hop group The Roots, are coming to Seattle for a show at the Showbox Sodo on Monday, February 20th, 2023. The band, who Rolling Stone magazine called one of the \u201cTwenty Greatest Live Acts in the World,\u201d has been serving as the house band on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","content-type":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.seaspot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/theroots.jpg?fit=1024%2C791&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Seaspot - Celebrating 24 Years Online!","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12856,"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12854\/revisions\/12856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.seaspot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}