Saturday, March 17   9:00 p.m.
Creekside EMC at Hilton Garden Inn   (500 N IH 35)

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  Brute Force & Daughter of Force - Space Mission
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Brute Force wrote and performed with The Tokens in the 1960s, wrote songs for Peggy March, Del Shannon, The Chiffons, and The Cyrkle. He wrote and recorded the LP “I, Brute Force - Confections of Love” for Columbia Records in 1967. Brute then took to the sea, deciding with a friend to swim the entire Bering Strait, a "Cold War" stunt aimed at drawing attention to "the closeness of the Eastern and Western hemispheres." His song, "No Olympian Height", was recorded by The Other Voices, produced by Ellie Greenwich and Mike Rashkow, and released on Atlantic Records in 1968. He wrote and recorded "The King of Fuh," which was admired by George Harrison and John Lennon and released on Apple Records in 1969. That same year he released "Extemporaneous" recorded live in the studio with minimal piano accompaniment before a small audience. Daughter of Force was born in 1971 in Ojai, California. Collaboration with her father began a few years later, and has continued since. Around 1990 she met someone her own age who was a fan of her father’s music. She thought this was impossible until he began singing “To Sit on a Sandwich” from the "Confections" album. Thanks in large part to the Internet, a cult following has grown in support of Brute’s music. In 2002 Brute and Daughter of Force traveled to the UK to tour with new found fans Misty’s Big Adventure. The Father/Daughter duo have made short movies, art installations, played with bands large and small, and have created a profoundly unique stage show. They live in New York and continue to work on new material, swim in the winter, and pledge allegiance to the universe.