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Thread started 06/27/09 3:54pm

Shango

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Long Beach Funk Festival (August 29, 2009)

www.myspace.com/lbfunkfestival

"A Funk Fest in So Cal is waaaay overdue!" ( Dawn Silva, Brides of Funkenstein )

I'm from Long Beach, and I have a band Delta Nove based here in LB. We lay heavy in the funk, but get into some Brazilian drumming and other grooves. Funk is what moves me the most. This is American music with deep roots and funk music makes me proud to be American. In early 2008 I came to the realization that Long Beach needs it's own funk festival. Then I soon realized that I'm the one who needs to make it happen. So here we go, summer 2009!

This is not going to be a jazz funk fest. This is not a hip hop funk fest. This is not going to be an old skool show. It's not a rock festival with a few funky bands. This is going to be all funk and nuttin but the funk. This is going to be a festival to bring together funk fans old and new, to show where funk came from and where it's going.

My goal is to bring the funk music community together (musicians and fans) and invoke the spirit of the great 70's funk fests, and to help nurture and develop funk's acceptance and acknowledgment as a complete North American musical genre. Much in the way jazz and blues are considered "American art forms", funk is American music too, our music, and has influenced countless other genres, musicians, and people around the world.

The Long Beach Funk Fest will also help to raise funds towards music education in Long Beach. This will be a community-based event, involving the community and giving back to the community. The Long Beach Funk Fest will also be a green festival, involving green sponsors and educating in ways to live with less impact on our environment. We are working to secure fully solar-powered staging and lighting and to have the bulk of support come from green companies and organizations.

±Drac&Hansolor ʞidDo Cameo@Tube Bonafide Funk

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Reply #1 posted 06/28/09 11:50am

PFunkjazz

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Here's the line-up

Mandrill
Dawn Silva of Brides of Funkenstein feat. Cynthia Robinson and Jerry Martini (Sly and the Family Stone) and Blackbyrd McKnight (Parliament Funkadelic)
Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd St. Rhythm Band
The Meters' Experience feat. Leo Nocentelli (guitarist, the Meters)
Breakestra
Danny Bedrosian & Secret Army
Delta Nove
BabyStone
OO Soul

oh yeah it's FREE!!!!

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Reply #2 posted 06/28/09 1:42pm

Shango

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Thanks PFunkjazz ! Wishing you a good time if you're going horns