Vitamin Em puts a new spin on funk, jazz, R&B, Soul and fiddle music. This group of strings, accordion, bassoon and percussion gets DOWN! If you like to have fun, be exhilarated, enjoy life and love ...

It opened with an improvising quintet of Anna Webber on flutes, Sara Schoenbeck on bassoon, Erica Dicker on violin and Yuhan Su on vibraphone. Next came a quartet of extended-techniques masters Peter ...

Actor, comedian, and writer Rory Scovel along with Korey Richey (LCD Soundsystem) and multi-instrumentalist and composer Stuart Bogie perform "Something Else" during the Big Diamond Comedy Festival at ...

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

The musical collective known as Parliament-Funkadelic is also known as P-Funk, which first came together as The Parliaments in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1956 by then fifteen-year-old George Clinton.

Fat Freddy’s Drop bring the groove to this week’s Trunk of Funk.

NYT Connections has you finding groups of four items that share something in common. Once you think you’ve made a connection, you can submit the group to see if you’re correct. Find the groups without ...

Exploring the best in funk and soul from the roots of black music through to the current club sounds, featuring classic tracks, new releases, sessions and interviews. Fat Freddy’s Drop Trunk of Funk ...

Jupiter String Quartet with Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20, Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana; $10+; part of the New Music Festival, the concert ...

Chrome Hoof Chrome Hoof are an experimental group based in London, England, formed in 2000 by Leo Smee and his brother Milo Smee. They begin as a duo and are originally largely electronic, using bass, ...