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Get ready to dance off your Thanksgiving dinner and kick off the holiday season with a night of funk, fun, and giving back. Local favorite April and the Funk Junkies return to the Belly Up Tavern ...

FACT mix 324 is a quite frankly ridiculous session by Soul Clap. This mix, in fact, is so good that we don’t mind the fact that it’s old. Soul Clap’s E-FUNK: The Mixtape was created in 2010, and ...

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, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something magical about George Duke’s music that’s hard to put into words—but you feel it. Whether he’s laying down a slick funk groove or caressing a melody on the piano, ...

It all came together in a matter of hours, according to Eugene musician Frank Visconti, trumpeter and manager with Natsukashii Soul, a brand-new jazz, R&B and funk quintet performing regularly in ...

For the first time in a quarter century, Tony! Toni! Toné! — the Oakland, California, funk-soul trio of brothers D'wayne Wiggins and Raphael Saadiq, plus their cousin Timothy Riley — are doing it ...

Craig Charles' new weekday show on 6 Music promises to offer an afternoon party that everyone's invited to. He'll be bringing some of the good times and great tunes that he's been beloved for every ...

For die-hard funk and soul fans, your Bay Area show of shows will arrive in festival form in September — if you’re ready to add some dips in your hips and put some pep in your step along the Vallejo ...

The Clark State Performing Arts Center (PAC) has added an act to its current season that will bring a mix of several genres with a lot of Southern flavor: JJ Grey & Mofro will heat up the winter at 8 ...