Movin' Melvin Brown: 'A Man, A Magic, A Music' Live!

Much celebrated world-class performer Melvin Brown, better known as Movin’ Melvin Brown, gives another uninhibited, inspiring and entertaining performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year.Brown is an accomplished song-and-dance man who has impressed the Edinburgh crowd many times over. His show this year is about Brown himself, presented in old-style vaudeville. He starts off by sharing his experience of growing up as a black kid in America in the 1940’s and 50’s. He goes on to tell stories about his early love of dancing, black music, living with racism, national service, romances, dancing at a male revue, and helping the underprivileged. He illustrates each of his phases with songs from the era, including ‘Crying Time’, ‘The Great Pretender’, and ‘Your Love is Lifting Me’.Throughout the show Brown throws in a bit of preaching, quotes that have inspired him, exceptional loose joint tap (which we are told he had to learn in three months), and to everybody’s surprise (and shock for a few) a strip.Brown’s deep earthy laugh is contagious – even his music and backstage crew cannot help themselves joining in. There is no denying that Brown was born to perform. His easy mannerisms and the charisma that oozes out of him puts his audience at ease - this is what makes this show an absolute treat.