There are two sides to the Cuban artist Erik Iglesias Rodríguez, who performs as Cimafunk. "Cima" is an homage to the cimarrón, a word that refers to Cubans of African descent who escaped enslavement.

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Cantus Vocal Ensemble gets down with a funk-filled evening of music with their latest show, “Covers: Pure Funk,” now running at the Luminary Arts Center. Fittingly, they get the party started with ...

A mixtape from Houston’s worldly psych trio digs deep into funk classics, spiritual jazz, and unusual finds from South Korea, Belarus, and Nigeria. Much of the mix is rooted in their hometown, from ...

Dayton’s legendary funk roots will soon be celebrated, revived and reimagined by the next generation of this city’s talent. From Dayton with Funk, a multimedia event hosted at the Brightside on Sept.

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...

The same goes for hearing his group Cameo’s 1986 late-funk classic “Word Up!”: The song’s memorable robotic rhythm and Blackmon’s machine-like vocal delivery elevate it above and beyond the era’s ...