world / funk / reggae
DOORS: 8pm | SHOW: 9pm
Tickets: $13 flat(+ online fee’s OR $2 fee at door)
AGES: 21+
THE AFROFUNK EXPERIENCE:
With Sila Mutungi they comprised the award-winning group Sila and the Afrofunk Experience until 2010, providing songs and grooves that earned them the title “The Bay Area’s Dance Kings”, as well as the NAACP Image Award’s Outstanding World Music Album for “Black President” and the SF Weekly Music Award’s Best International Act.
Guitarist/Singer David James (Spearhead, The Coup, Beth Custer) brings his sinewy style to counter the funk-metal stylings of lead guitarist Ken House (H.P. Riot). The precise funk-rock drumming of Paul Oliphant (Afrolicious, Will Magid Trio) with Wendell Rand’s (Afrolicious, Tracorum, Youssoupha Sidibe) muscular dance grooves keep the band tight, while saxophonist David Boyce (Broun Fellinis, The Supplicants) and trombonist Alan Williams (Manicato, Katdelic) wail, their horns producing a sound that encompasses outward-bound jazz, classic reggae, afrobeat and R&B. Percussionist B. Lee thickens and adds flavor to the mix, and on top of all this, recent addition Sandy House adds her sultry voice and powerful stage presence.
Note: There once was a man named Mike Pitre … he was the coolest cat, with the craziest degree of swing, in his trumpet playing, in his singing and in his living. Mike passed away just weeks after he recorded his parts for the AFE album. He would cuss the band out if they were to quit. So they roll on. And they miss him.
COMMON KNOWLEDGE:
A six-pack band from California’s North Bay. Reggae rhythms with soaring harmonies and positive vibrations.
All General Admission Tickets are Standing Room with limited seating. (Unless otherwise noted)
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HopMonk Tavern – Sebastopol
230 Petaluma Ave
- Sebastopol