House of Funk Presents Tri-State Funk: Rick James, Kool & The Gang, PFunk, & more

About this show

Craft cocktails and small plates begin at 6:00 pm. Middle C Jazz has General Admission seating available on a first-come basis. We also offer preferred seating for our Baby Grand members. For information regarding our Baby Grand Membership click here. Tonight, we zero in on the defining East Coast Funk corridor of New York, New Jersey, and the surrounding region. The Tri-State area served as a crucial cultural engine of the 70s and 80s where smooth jazz horn arrangements, raw street energy, and psychedelic avant-garde music merged into legendary anthems. By celebrating regional visionaries like Rick James, Kool & The Gang, and P-Funk, House of Funk spotlights the titans of this local geographic powerhouse that permanently reshaped pop music and laid the essential sample foundation for modern hip-hop. HOUSE OF FUNK WATCH Born in early 2019, House of Funk was conceived by Charlotte guitarist Stefan Kallander as a monthly night for the funk lovers of the Queen City where hips could move to the sounds of funk classics and deep cuts. The band features some of Charlotte’s finest musicians: Courtney Gibson, Jesse Lamar Williams, Zach Wheeler, Braxton Bateman, Simon George, and Stefan Kallander, in addition to monthly sit ins and features of other stunning artists from the deep well of Charlotte Funk. The series began to grow throughout the next year until our favorite runt cousin Covid 19 took center stage. But now House of Funk is back!