Black Christmas with Afrofunk Experience & Broun Fellinis

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Black Christmas with Afrofunk Experience & Broun Fellinis

Time: December 19, 2013 at 9pm to December 20, 2013 at 2am
Location: Cafe du Nord
Street: 2170 Market Street
City/State: San Francisco, CA 94114
Info/Tickets/Map: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/s…
Phone: 650 302-1138
Event Type: san francisco, funk, christmas, bay area, african, jazz
Organized By: WenDell Rand
Latest Activity: Dec 18, 2013

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Black Christmas with Afrofunk Experience and Broun Fellinis at Cafe du Nord
A funky and introspective twist on traditional Christmas offerings.

PLUS!: DJ Set by MSK.fm (Antonino Musco)

Afrofunk Experience
" An ambrosial mix of musical interpretations influenced by the African diaspora, created in a collective and organic manner"
The Afrofunk Experience – who with Sila Mutungi comprised the award-winning group Sila and the Afrofunk Experience from it's inception until 2010, providing songs and grooves for the entity that was dubbed "The Bay Area's Dance Kings", and who, with SAFE, were winners of the NAACP Image Award's Outstanding World Music Album for "Black President" and winners of The SF Weekly Music Award's Best International Act.
HOMEGROWN AFROBEAT, AFROROCK, REGGAE, AND ORIGINAL BAY AREA FUNK.
Chunky rhythms mixed with tasty funk-to-metal guitar grooves and blazing horns is the deep soul sound of the Afrofunk Experience: Every night the band delivers home grown ORIGINAL BAY AREA FUNK,
AFROBEAT, REGGAE, AND MORE.
Musicians
David James-guitar/vocals, Sandy Tili-vocals,percussions, Ken House-guitar, David Boyce-saxophones, Alan Williams-Trombone, vocals, Paul Oliphant-drum kit, Brandon Lee- percussion, Wendell Rand-bass

BROUN FELLINIS
Formed 1991 in San Francisco by Kevin Carnes, drums/sampler (Beatnigs, UAF), David Boyce, tenor/soprano saxophone, efx, synth, spoken word, and Kirk Peterson, electric bass. The Fellinis play a soulful and aggressive style of post modern improvised/composed jazzical sound that is informed by dub, afro beat, abstract funk, drumnbass, hardcore/psych/prog rock and film soundtracks (the darker and more atmospheric the better) The group has been profiled on NPR and BET in the US and on Radio Nova in France. They've traveled to Spain to perform at the San Sebastian International Jazz Festival and to British Columbia for the du Maurier festival. Other festival appearances include the San Francisco Jazz Festival, Stern Grove Festival in SF, the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle and more. Broun Fellinis have toured with Ben Harper and performed with many greats such as The Last Poets, Meshell Ndegeocello, Living Colour, Erykah Badu, the Roots, Mos Def, Gil Scott-Heron, Zakir Hussain, Bernie Worrell, Eric McFadden, George Clinton, Mystic Journeymen, Jimmy Smith, Prince Lasha, Les Claypool, Buckethead, Aceyalone, Mikah 9, Antibalas, Blackalicious, General Public, Ravi Coltrane, Eric McFadden, 311, and more. 

 

DJsets by MSK.fm
http://soundcloud.com/mskfm
MSK.FM is Antonino Musco, producer/engineer, radio host and jazz trained musician with a strong improvisational and audiovisual background. Born in Sicily, Italy, Antonino traveled and networked across Europe before relocating to San Francisco in 2010.



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