The International Body Music Festival Concert: The Americas was a free, outdoor event produce by Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival.  The weather on day of the performance was cloudy.  It drizzled on and off: one of those days you want to stay at home all day.  Even though it wasn’t the best weather for an outdoor performance, a good amount of people came to watch.

TIBMFC: The Americas was a very interesting dance/music concert.  It sounds like a regular concert, right?  Well, it was much more, and not what you would expect.  Unless you expect two women, who were supposedly “cousins” standing very close to each other throat singing.  If that is what you expected from this music festival, then you wouldn’t be surprised one bit.

The performance included the throat singers, the SLAMMIN All Body Band, and many other acts.  I did not like the throat singers or maybe beginning the concert with the throat singers was not the right choice.  At first, I thought that the throat singers were very weird, but I got used to them after they started sounding like many instruments using only their throats.

My favorite part of the concert was the SLAMMIN All Body Band.  They were a combination of singers, beat boxers, and dancers.  They sang their own versions of songs including “I Like the Way You Move” sung originally by Outkast and “Nature Boy” originally by Nat King Cole.  The best of their band was singer Destiny, who reminded me of Lauryn Hill.

Overall, I enjoyed the performance.  I think the rest of the audience enjoyed the performance as well, given their dancing in their seats!