The best bet at the Fair Grounds for bearing witness to New Orleans' plethora of young talent is stopping by the Ochsner ...

Add Mr. Whiskers and The Nine Lives to your list of great funk & jam big bands. Multi-instrumentalist Kyle Sareyani first ...

While the Crunchy Things stopped performing regularly around 2000, they continue to reignite the fire for special Milwaukee ...

Winter Park Playhouse and Barbara Chandler Productions will present United Groove: An Evening of Funk, Blues and Soul at the Winter Park Public Library's Edyth Bush Theatre, with free admission and ...

The riverside food festival is returning to the West Yorkshire spa town for its seventh year with a brand-new arena and a packed live music schedule.

The BendreTheGiant project began as what the Gresham-born Estrada describes as an “outlet for my depression.” Many of the ...

Sound is embedded in almost everything David Heise loves. “There’s always some music running through my head,” he said.

Charles Griffin and I were talking evolution. Musical evolution. We were listening to Sauce Pocket headlining the first night of the inaugural Fox Fam Jam at Florida Sand Music Ranch April 10. Their ...

Event producer James Taylor says the August festival will balance global award-winning acts with hometown talent.

The Floozies, founded by brothers Matt and Mark Hill in 2006, play a form of electronic funk created by looping different beats and lyrics. Geared toward a young, energetic crowd, this variation of ...

When the famous writers known as The Beats were driving all across the country in the mid-20th century, searching for that numinous muse, they would often search for the best saxophone players who ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...