Bounce Magazine 79

FEATURE
MAY 2019 MAY | ISSUE 2019 #79 | ISSUE | NILE #79 RODGERS
The Jockey Club Live and Newmarket
Racecourses are delighted to announce
the legendary NILE RODGERS & CHIC’s
return to the July course, headlining
the family-friendly Summer Saturday
Live on Saturday 8th June 2019.
Nile Rodgers is truly exceptional. He amplifies his
legacy as a multiple GRAMMY-winning composer,
producer, arranger and guitarist by constantly
traversing new musical terrain and successfully
expanding the boundaries of popular music. As
the co-founder of CHIC, Rodgers pioneered a
musical language that generated chart-topping
hits like ‘Le Freak,’ sparked the advent
of hip-hop with ‘Good Times,’ and
won CHIC 11 Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame nominations.
His work in the CHIC
Organization and his
productions for artists
like David Bowie
(incl. ‘Lets Dance’),
Diana Ross (incl.
‘Upside Down’,
‘I’m Coming Out’)
and Madonna
(incl. ‘Material
Girl’, ‘Like A
Virgin’) have
sold over 300
million albums and
50 million singles
worldwide while his
innovative, trendsetting
collaborations with
Daft Punk, Avicii, Sigala,
Disclosure and Sam Smith reflect
the vanguard of contemporary music.
Releasing their ninth studio album ‘It’s About
Time’ in 2018, the release saw the band once
again work the cream of the crop of the current
music stars ranging from Mura Masa and Stefflon
Don to Lady Gaga.
Expect to hear some of the best-known pop
anthems from the last four decades. With more
than 200 production credits to his name, the
scope of Nile Rodgers’ peerless influence is
undeniable.
Summer Saturday Live at Newmarket
Racecourses is a day for the whole family, with
Nile Rodgers & CHIC taking to the stage in
the afternoon. There will be reduced priced
children’s tickets aged 5-17 available when
accompanied by a responsible adult of 18 or over,
with children aged 4 and under are entitled to
free admission.
We speak to Nile about his upcoming
performance at this years Newmarket Nights...
YOU HEADLINED TWO RACECOURSE SHOWS
LAST YEAR, AT SANDOWN PARK AND
NEWMARKET, DID YOU ENJOY THE SHOWS?
Yeah for sure, it was the first time we had done
anything like that and it was great, it
was so much fun for us that we
insisted, ‘How do we get this
again?!’ They were so cool!
YOU’RE GOING TO
BE RETURNING TO
NEWMARKET FOR
THE SUMMER
SATURDAY LIVE
EVENT WHICH
IS IN THE
AFTERNOON
AND FAMILY-
FRIENDLY. HOW
DOES IT FEEL
KNOWING THAT
THERE WILL BE
YOUNG FANS IN
THE AUDIENCE
HAVING THEIR
FIRST EXPERIENCE
OF A LIVE CONCERT?
If I judge from what’s happened
in the past, it’s wonderful! I’m always shocked
at how many people know the music that
I’ve worked on. It blows me away. I’ve been
educated, I’ve been told they say ‘Of course
this is my favourite song! It was in my favourite
video game’, or favourite movie, and nowadays
our music gets licensed and synched to so
many other products, that we wind up getting
a fanbase based on playlists that were created
for this product or that product and its pretty
amazing.
IT’S THE SIGN OF THE TIMES AND THE DIGITAL
AGE THAT WE’RE IN THAT THERE ARE SO
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