Posts Tagged ‘R&B’
Tribute to Aretha
Friday, August 24th, 2018Cold Sweat
Friday, March 13th, 2015“Funk is not fast, it’s not slow…it’s just funky…”
-Gregory Collins

Gregory Collins captured the energy, moves and mannerisms of Mr. Please, Please, Please, Mr. Dynamite and the Hardest Working Man in Show Business at the Tribute to James Brown at Funk-n-Waffles (Downtown) last night.
Throwback Thursday
Thursday, March 12th, 2015
Dwele at Awful Al’s Cigar Bar (circa 2003)
Life in Pictures: Friends, Singers, Divas
Saturday, January 31st, 2015
Visiting vocalist Lydia Caesar was a childhood friend of Community Folk Art Center Director of Education, Tamar Smithers. Smithers sang background for Caesar’s Black Month kick-off concert last night.
The Next Movement
Monday, May 19th, 2014
A. Travis Reed, aka Renfro Jenkins, performed a Stevie Wonder cover during an open mike night at Transitions 658 on Sunday.
The Sound of Syracuse is alive and well at the new Transitions 658 venue on North Salina Street. We got wind about this joint from one of our friends, and was pleased to see and experience a cadre familiar local musicians letting their hair down and groove everything from Stevie Wonder, D’Angelo, Bob Marley, Erykah Badu, Toni Braxton, and even some H-Town last night.
There was also an open mike segment that included some original poetry that reminded us of the musicology served up at the old OnaJava’s Soul Food Sundays.

Emanuel “never miss a beat” Washington
Syracuse’s Funk Brothers
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
Mike and Jeff Houston (Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival, Day 1)
The J Project brought R&B and Classic Soul to Day One of the Northeast Jazz & Wine Festival last night. They performed on the World Beat Pavilion stage.