Allen Boys
SACRED STEEL
Sunday, 7/6/08, 7 pm
Outdoors at Duke Gardens
$10 • $5 Duke employees
Duke students and children 12 & under are free
(Limit two tickets per Duke student/employee ID)
The Mt. Airy-based sacred steel unit, the Allen Boys – fronted by the dazzling pedal steel player DaShawn Hickman – were brought up in the Pentecostal House of God church. In this predominantly African-American congregation – made known widely by the music of the Campbell Brothers and Robert Randolph – the incisive pedal steel guitar accompanies the whole of the service. Of late, the Allen Boys have gained a good measure of justified acclaim by delivering their jubilant music to a grateful outside-the-church audience.
Independent Weekly article on Allen Boys