Ultraviolet Hippopotamus News

Grand Rapids has multiple music venues that stick to one genre. There are blues bars, dueling piano joints and country music venues, but one venue refuses to be labeled.

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That's right Upstate NY, the trance electronic band Ultraviolet Hippopotamus is making its way to the north east this Tuesday November 15th, for a performance at Syracuse's Westcott Theater .

Now here's something special. Fleetfingered guitarist Eddie Roberts started this deliriously hot funk and soul band in Great Britain in 1999, and in the intervening years the NM's have become the premier act on England's jazz/funk scene.

It's no secret: Jam fans can't get enough of Ultraviolet Hippopotamus. The Grand Rapids-based group has played everywhere from major music festivals like Rothbury to gigs at venues across the Midwest.