About
Soul Sacrifice - The Music of Santana is a tribute band for hire in Melbourne, VIC.
Seven musicians, one songbook, and a genuine soft spot for what Carlos Santana did with a guitar. Soul Sacrifice run the Latin rock catalogue properly, from Black Magic Woman and Oye Como Va through Smooth, Maria Maria, Corazon Espinado and Evil Ways, then into the deeper material like Incident at Neshabur, Samba Pa Ti, Europa and Soul Sacrifice itself. It's percussion heavy, it's built for dancing, and the set runs long enough to cover a whole night in Melbourne. Bill McGillivray of the Eltham Jazz Festival summed the band up as not needing the real thing when you've got this one. Production can be supplied if the venue doesn't have it.
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The show
Seven musicians on stage, all of them properly experienced, all of them genuinely fond of the Santana catalogue rather than just competent at playing it. What comes out of that is a Latin rock show with a lot of energy in it and very little dead air. The percussion drives things along and the dance floor tends to fill. If you want a night where people are up and moving rather than politely seated, this is the shape of it.
On the day
Where a room has no production of its own, the band can bring it in. Worth flagging early in your enquiry so it can be sorted before the day.
Song list
38 songs
1 Smooth
2 Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen
3 Evil Ways
4 Maria Maria
5 Game of Love (if we have a guest singer)
6 Oye Como Va
7She's Not There
8 Europa
9 Carnaval
10 Let the Children Play
11 Jugando
12 Corazon Espinado
13 Evil Ways (Live)
14 Incident at Neshabur
15 Samba Pa Ti
16 Soul Sacrifice
17 Angels All Around Us/Spirits Dancing In The Flesh
18 (Da Le) Yaleo
19 Jingo
20 Primavera
21 Make Somebody Happy (If we have a guest singer)
22 Savor
23 Shades of time
24 Luz, Amor y Vida
