The final line-up for Spring Fling is set, and funk band Original P will close out the day. The act will follow headliner Guster and rap group Jurassic5.
"Anyone who knows funk knows Original P," Concert Board Co-chair Dan Aaronson said. "They are pure funk. We can end the concert with a bang because it's high energy and we can get people up and dancing."
Original P recently came to Boston to play at the Orpheum. The 14-member band consists of the original musicians of the band Parliament, minus George Clinton, who now leads the P-Funk All Stars. Their latest album, released in March of 1999, is entitled What Dat Shakin'.
According to Aaronson, the Concert Board had trouble finding a closing band. "We were lucky to get them," he said. "For some reason, the crop this year of available talent is just very thin. I know other schools are screwed. If it weren't for Original P, I don't think there would be anything all too exciting on the horizon."
Opening Spring Fling, which will take place on April 28, will be the student band Redshift 6, the winner of Tufts' Battle of the Bands.
