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Funk Salad

Description

Are you looking for a tight, funky, five-piece dance band to kick start your party or function? Well look no further. Born out of a common passion to play your favourite dance hits with style. precision and energy, we present Funk Salad: As our name suggests, our repertoire draws on a mix of funk, soul, disco and R&B favourites from the 70s to the present. Our infectious, danceable sets are ideal for any function or event and cover the hits of James Brown, The Commitments, Chic, KC & The Sunshine Band, Grace Jones, The Commodores, Stevie Wonder, Sister Sledge, Duffy, Prince, Michael Jackson, Tony Joe White, Earth, Wind & Fire to name but three! You can visit our Set List page for sample audio. Funk Salad uses fully professional PA, stage monitoring equipment and instrumentation. together with stage lighting and effects (where permitted!) So...to sum up, here's ten good reasons to hire Funk Salad: 1. Experienced five-piece band featuring predominently female lead vocal. 2. Dynamic, energetic and polished performances. 3. Virtually non-stop funky disco, soul, Motown, party dance music. 4. 100% live music performance - not a backing track in sight! 5. All band members are experienced semi-pro musicians...including the drummer! 6. Lighting, effects and PA rig to professional standards. 7. Can maintain a relatively small stage footprint where space is a premium. 8. Background music supplied to cover our breaks. 9. Requests for favourite songs not currently in our sets accepted with sufficient notice. ...oh, and lastly, we’re thoroughly nice, friendly and approachable people.

Location
Wellington
Genre
  • Jazz/funk
  • Top 40
  • 60s
  • 70s
  • 80s
  • 90s
Group Members
April Phillips, Lead Vocals
Murray Thompson, Guitar & Vocals
Hugh Costello, Keyboards
Matt Beauchamp, Bass
Richard Laing, Drums & Vocals
Play List
Signed, Sealed, Delivered You Sexy Thing Long Train Running Walk of Life Gimme Some Lovin’ Get It On Pull Up to the Bumper Miss You Upside Down (You Turn Me) Car Wash Disco Inferno Lay Down Sally Cream Shake, Shake, Shake We Are family Polk Salad Annie Billie Jean I Will Survive Play That Funky Music Le Freak Boogie Oogie Oogie Respect Love Shack Proud Mary Stay In the Midnight Hour My Sharona Alright Now I Love the Night Life Rescue Me Do You Think I’m Sexy? Higher Ground Heart of Glass If This Ain’t Love Chain of Fools Sultans of Swing Brick House Listen to the Music Something Got Me Started I Feel Good (I Got You) Kiss Everyone’s A Winner China Grove Knock On Wood You Can Leave Your Hat On Take Me To The River Mustang Sally These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ Funky Town Bad Case of Lovin’ You Johnny Be Good Hey Baby Twenty Flight Rock Honky Tonk Woman Stuck In the Middle I’m A Believer Unchain My Heart Willie and the Hand Jive April Sun in Cuba Boys Light Up Steamy Windows Blame it on the Boogie Shake Your Body Which Way is Up? Instant Replay Hot Stuff Celebration
Available For
  • Corporate Events
  • Venues
  • Weddings
  • School/University Functions
  • Family Events
  • Sporting Events
  • Special Events
  • Holiday Events
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