About the Funk Festival
The Funk Festival is planned to expose and amuse a varied audience to a range of Old-School music. The categories of music vary from Old-School R&B, Old-School Hip-Hop, Funk, Jazz, to Comedy and Blues. A few artists who have performed at the Funk Festival are Frankie Beverly and Maze, New Edition, Gap Band, Big Daddy Kane, Whodini, Betty Wright, Ohio Players, Cameo, Rickey Smiley, SOS Band and many others. The cities where Funk Festival can be seen are Jacksonville FL, Mobile AL, Baton Rouge LA, West Palm Beach FL, and Greenville-Spartanburg SC.
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The Funk Festival in San Francisco in 2001 attracted 3000 citizens in spite of it being conducted just about 2 months after the 9/11 disaster. The Festival's “theme nights” let people understand the diverse branches of the Funk tree and notice how funk is the origin that joins them together.
The Funk Festival was created to rejoice the wealthy cultural legacy of Old School Music and has turned into a celebration of human expression. The mission of Funk Festival is to give the African-American community access to means of expression that encourage social consciousness, personal achievement and positive amusement. The variety of entertainment would produce these means of expression through Funk Festival which symbolize ingenuity, quality and exclusivity.
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