Chicago pianist and singer making analog '70s rock with New Orleans funk in its bones, heavy riffs over dance grooves and no programming in sight.
Whippersnap 2027 Lineup
Four days of funk, jam and soul at the Florida Sand Music Ranch north of Tampa, with Florida club bands filling out the bill.
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Seattle's instrumental funk and Afrobeat ensemble, now with singer Adryon de León out front of the horns and the long grooves.
All-women funk collective led by drummer Nikki Glaspie (Beyoncé, Dumpstaphunk, The Nth Power), with a rotating cast of heavy hitters.
St. Petersburg funk-rock band since 2013, big melodic hooks over deep grooves, taking the songs somewhere different each night.
Anthill Cinema
St. Petersburg, Florida ensemble writing fusion jazz and prog rock like film scores, down to a concept album scored for a film that does not exist.
Boxcar Hollow
High-energy psychedelic jam band drawing on folk, jazz, blues, funk, reggae and bluegrass.
Fully improvised four-piece with guitarist Joe Marcinek: post-rock, ambient electronica and jazz freakouts with performance art thrown in.
Cluster (WSP Tribute)
Widespread Panic tribute band, working through the Athens jam institution's catalog.
Florida jam band founded by Akron-born brothers Dennis and Kenny Stadelman: psychedelic funk and jazz-reggae fusion, sax against blistering guitar.
Daniel Heitz Band
Dionysus
North Florida fusion band blending jazz, house, funk and hip-hop, all on live instruments.
Augusta-born, Atlanta-based funk-rock band of fifteen-plus years, with a habit of bringing guests on stage and stretching the songs out.
Central Florida funk sextet with jazz, rock and blues in the mix and reggae and ska bleeding in, bridging the Orlando and Tampa scenes.
New Orleans piano and organ man, once of Papa Grows Funk, carrying the city's funk, R&B and second-line rhythm through thirty years of clubs.
Powerhouse soul singer best known fronting the electro-pop band Doom Flamingo.
Matcha
Michael Nivens
Florida jamtronica band folding funk and rock into high-powered originals, a fixture of the state's jam scene.
Naples, Florida band that started on country singles like ‘Florida Man’ and ‘I Wanna Fish’ and has since moved into live, jam-leaning recordings.
Mobile, Alabama eight-piece led by Red Padilla, horn-heavy swamp soul from the Gulf Coast city that threw the first Mardi Gras.
Sarkis + Friends
Gainesville brass band of five horns and a drum kit that calls its sound brass funk, or on louder nights brass metal.
Vero Beach six-piece jam band, eleven years in, working the classic-rock lineage of the Allmans and Widespread Panic.
Denver four-piece playing psych rock built for improvisation, anywhere from two-minute love songs to twelve-minute prog epics.
Gainesville band living between rock, folk, electronica and psychedelic jam since 2018.
Pompano Beach jam band since 2018, mixing in reggae, funk and hip-hop, and a perennial Fort Lauderdale best-band pick.
Atlanta six-piece playing improvised dance funk it calls psychofunk: clavinet, organ and synth over a tight rhythm section.
Former Copious Jones frontman Mikhail Petersen back after nearly a decade away, with Grammy-nominated drummer Marcus Williams behind him.
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