Lucky & The Locals

Field Hall Presents: Lucky & The Locals
Friday, August 22nd | Doors 5PM, Performance 7:30PM
VIP Tables $40 | General Admission Free, Donations Appreciated 
General admission seating is first-come, first-served. This is a Sunset Lounge event with dance floor and bar service throughout the evening. 

Join Lucky & The Locals for a summer dance party in the Sunset Lounge at Field Hall! Doors open at 5PM, music begins at 7PM. Reserved VIP tables are available for $40 – all other seating is first-come, first-served and by donation.

“The Locals” is a stripped down version of Joel Ricci’s wildly popular “Funkways” ensemble featuring West Seattle All Stars Olli Klomp (Oscillators) on drums and Jason Gray (Polyrhythmics) on electric bass. The twist is Jason Cressey (Monophonics) takes up the Guitar and Lucky himself plays electric piano. Think Meters meets Hailu Mergia at a backyard barbecue.

American music artist, Joel Ricci (fka Lucky Brown), writes and records in his tiny forest cabin in the foothills of the North Olympic Mountains on the Olympic peninsula of Washington State. As a songwriter, composer, arranger, recording artist, and professional session and touring trumpet player he has worked as both leader and sideman in many groups for over 20 years.

Joel has traveled with nationally touring acts such as Portland’s MarchFourth Marching Band, Orgone from Los Angeles, and Moksha from Las Vegas. Recently, an original song of his, in collaboration with Seattle’s Polyrhythmics, has been licensed for use in a major Jordan Peele motion picture directed by and starring Dev Patel.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in music composition from Eastern Washington University in 1999 and has performed in the Peninsula College Jazz band while studying composition and arranging under the tutelage of Dr. David P. Jones.

Among his dynamic studio experiments and performance situations, his former stage/production persona, ‘Lucky Brown’, is probably the most widely-recognized via his relationship with German boutique funk and jazz record label, Tramp Records, for whom Joel has written, arranged, recorded, produced and licensed more than two-dozen vinyl 45RPM singles as well as six full-length albums and EPs. This relationship has led to Ricci being hailed by music mavens worldwide as a “deep funk pioneer.”

In addition to his prolific output of original jazz, funk, blues, and soul compositions, Joel’s trumpet has appeared on hundreds of independent recordings. One special feature of Joel’s original music is that it comes directly from the heart, and carries with it the gravity of spiritual and cultural consequence. This sentiment is echoed by the handful of Pacific Northwest rhythmic groups who cover his original tunes as nightly staples in their live show.