On Thursday night, the Cliff Hines Quintet will be covered in paint.

The band will be creating a music video in real-time for the song “Pastels”, from their 2009 record Like Mystics of Old. “We’re going to be playing the song and be covered head to toe in paint by a bunch of kids,” says Hines. “There’s more to it but we’re trying to let a little bit be a surprise.” The song will be played in half-time, to give the troupe of 10-17 year-old painters time to work.

The event takes place at the Contemporary Arts Center Warehouse at 6 p.m. The video shoot will follow a full set by the band. “[‘Pastels’] is actually our hardest song to perform,” says Hines. “It has shifting time signatures all over the place. We were trying to figure out how to make that element come through in the video…there’s going to be some experiments with time as well as experiments with colors.”

It’s not just the musicians who will be getting the artistic treatment. “We have a whole band’s worth of instruments that are going to get painted,” says Hines. “Some of them are pretty junky…They’ll definitely be made a lot more special.”

In a first for the group, portions of the musical program will be accompanied by dance, choreographed by Hannah Weber. “[She’s] an old friend of ours,” Hines says. “She’s about to leave town to go join Cirque du Soleil.

“Right now we’re in the works to do a Prince tribute,” Hines adds. “That’s going to be happening around Mardi Gras.” The group previously staged a tribute to David Bowie, featuring a collection of local musicians. Hines hopes to do more such shows in the future. “We’re going to try to it turn into a recurring event,” he says.

More info is on the Facebook event page. Below is the first video from Like Mystics of Old for the song “What Choice Do I Have?”.

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