I’ve always been struck by Vito live. The percussive attack of his guitar playing, the full-body investment in every moment, the way he draws an audience into the fold like a congregation.
:::Vito Dito is a singer-songwriter from Durham, NC and devoted musical minister for the First/Last Church of the Living Earth. Playing solo and frequently with Sun Ra alum and master percussionist Ken Moshesh, the earthy sound is at the intersection of folk-rock and jazz, but the live experience is Cosmic. Delivering transcendent musical elevation at festivals, clubs, house shows, streets and woods. Booking: taosongs.music@gmail.com
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10/24 Vito Dito. Western Wake Farmer’s Market. 9-11am.
10/20 Vito Dito & Ken Moshesh. Nash Street Tavern. 5:30-7:30p
10/14 Vito Dito & Ken Moshesh. The Speakeasy. Carrboro. 7-9p
10/10 Vito Dito. The Cave. Chapel Hill. 9pm
10/3 Vito Dito & Ken Moshesh. Huron Stage. Durham. 5p
9/28 Vito Dito & Ken Moshesh. Slim’s. Raleigh. 8-10p.
9/26 Vito Dito & Ken Moshesh. WitchStock. Panther Lake. 6pm
9/26 Vito Dito. Durham Farmer’s Market. Durham. 9am-11am.
9/20 Vito Dito. Moore Square Buskers Series. Raleigh. 11am-1pm.
9/14 Vito Dito. Durham Center for Senior Life. Durham. 12p.
9/12 Vito Dito. West Hillsborough Pizzaria. Hillsborough. 6-8pm.
9/9 Vito Dito & Ken Moshesh. The Speakeasy. Carrboro. 7-9pm.
8/29 Vito Dito. Come Out and Play. Pittsboro. 2:40p.
8/21 Vito Dito & Ken Moshesh. Pass The Hat. WHUP 104.7FM. 6-8pm.
8/15 Vito Dito. West Hillsborough Pizzaria. Hillsborough. 6-8pm.
8/8 Vito Dito with Charles Latham. Blank Tapes at Frog Hollow. Durham. 5:30-8pm.
8/5 Vito Dito and Ken Moshesh with The Wigg Report. Speakeasy. Carrboro. 9-12p
8/1 Vito Dito with Irina Kruchinina, Ken Moshesh & Others. Rub the Soles of the Hands Ablaze (Dance Performance). Carrboro Arts Center. Carrboro. 7pm.
::: What’s this all about?
All right, can you hear me so this this in my mind for this earth is it’s primarily about sort of an Eco consciousness a connection but it’s not a city kind of thing so it’s a country kind of thing and it’s about growing your own food. It’s about being a community with people it’s about kind of living on the edge. There’s a whole idea of edged dwellers right in the forest. There’s animals and plants that are in the forest. There’s animals and plants in the field and their animals and plants That are on the edges in the edges are the most diverse the most resilient the most bountiful areas are so I think of the music is being between genre and also between sort of civilization and wildness and and it’s it’s it’s like if you drive 45 minutes out in the country and you come to a little sign that Says Vito‘s farm you turn in there and that’s what this music is for. It’s a dirt road going to someplace where you can relax you can chill your outside of sort of the system I guess so that’s what I think of this. You know when I was talking about that early 50s late 50s early 60s Where rock ‘n’ roll started it was wild man and they were country people you know they weren’t like sophisticated they were they were plan music that was a little bit dangerous a little bit wild and I like that so that’s that’s what that’s what this is and so the pictures are like you know trees fallen leaves Bonfire, small fire, small house garden and and that’s that sort of the visual kind of dimension of this music it’s also sort of about reaching for something that is not obvious you know like when you’re in a dark room and you’re trying to find the light string and you have your arms in front of me and you know you’re gonna turn it on and it’s gonna transform it, but this music is for That moment before when you’re reaching out you’re reaching your arms out and I think it’s good. I mean it makes you move. It’s also I want to dance music you know where people can you know and that’s one of the things I like about rock ‘n’ roll is that when you say dance to rock ‘n’ roll it’s just people like wiggling and doing this feeling a little bit wild and so I like that too so that’s it