Troy C. Funk, 51, passed away on July 22, 2024. He will be greatly missed by his loving parents Michael and Barbara Funk of East Granby, his brothers Todd Funk and his wife Michelle of Falls Church, ...

After years of planning, the Funk Music Hall of Fame and Exhibition Center is ready to get funked up. >> Funk museum in Dayton is now open -- and Bootsy Collins is excited The center, located at 113 E ...

The Ohio Players is one of many funk groups from Dayton that took off in the 1970s and '80s. In the mid-1960s, James Brown was creating a new style of music — funk. Instead of turning elaborate ...

In October the Wire published a primer on what it pronounced “the moment when Black music grew its Afro and took a lesson from hippy-rock, exploding into the Technicolor dream funk and proto-disco of ...

If there was a Mount Funkmore for the greatest funk bassists, Marcus Miller’s face and trademark porkpie hat would be sculpted into that musical monument. Miller honed his musical chops during funk’s ...

Known throughout the community as director of communications for Pueblo School District 60, Dalton Sprouse also is a dedicated follower of funk music, and all things funky. "Funk is fusion of jazz, ...

New VH1 documentary stars Sly Stone%2C Bootsy Collins and other funkmeisters In the early %2780s%2C Dayton%2C Ohio%2C was the epicenter of funk%2C the film finds Funk ...

Last month, the Brazilian artist Ludmilla made history: After powering through her hits during a breakout set at Coachella, she became the first Afro-Latina to perform at the music festival. She riled ...

Funk music has had its own share of ups and downs in terms of audience popularity over the years and Hyderabadi bands too have been slow to embrace the genre. So, when a rare city band calls itself an ...