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About the show
City Funk Orchestra - the capital’s best and most popular funk/soul dance band plays to packed houses throughout London and the South regularly filling mainstream music venues and wowing festival audiences. With a history as a ‘specialist’ opening act for the likes of Average White Band and Kid Creole and the Coconuts, 2025 has seen them appearing amongst the headliners at the Saturday Love soul music festival in North London. alongside The Amy Winehouse Band at Hampton Pool Festival whilst also opening the festivities for Friday night at the major and long-established Cropredy Festival in Oxfordshire.
The band’s sound centres around the soul and funk ‘golden age’ of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, to which these top players have added the magic ingredient of genuine authenticity. Their own CFO penned material blends seamlessly amongst the big dance floor fillers the band have made their own. Songs include the most loved floor fillers of Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross, Maze, SOS Band, Shalamar, Gap Band, The Emotions, alongside many rare groove picks that never fail to please soul ’n funk sophisticates … Featuring two of the best soul singers in the UK in regular lead Imaani (longtime lead singer with internationally acclaimed UK jazz funk legends Incognito, also BV’s with Chaka Khan), and Mary Pearce formerly with Culture Club, Primal Scream, Roy Ayres, Calvin Harris (she’s the voice of “Ready For The Weekend”) - with a funky-as-it-gets rhythm section of Nial Tompkins-guitar, Carl Hudso
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City Funk Orchestra
The capital’s best and most popular funk/soul dance band plays to packed houses throughout London and the South regularly filling mainstream music venues and wowing festival audiences. With a history as a ‘specialist’ opening act for the likes of Average White Band and Kid Creole and the Coconuts, 2025 has seen them appearing amongst the headliners at the Saturday Love soul music festival in North London. alongside The Amy Winehouse Band at Hampton Pool Festival whilst also opening the festivities for Friday night at the major and long-established Cropredy Festival in Oxfordshire.
The band’s sound centres around the soul and funk ‘golden age’ of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, to which these top players have added the magic ingredient of genuine authenticity. Their own CFO penned material blends seamlessly amongst the big dance floor fillers the band have made their own. Songs include the most loved tracks of Chaka Khan, Luther Vandross, Maze, SOS Band, Shalamar, Gap Band, The Emotions, alongside their rare groove picks … Featuring two of the best soul singers in the UK in regular lead Imaani (longtime lead singer with Incognito, also BV’s with Chaka Khan), from Cleveland Ohio Angelo Starr (brother of soul legend Edwin Starr) and Mary Pearce formerly with Culture Club, Primal Scream, Roy Ayres, Calvin Harris - with a funky-as-it-gets rhythm section of Nial Tompkins-guitar, Carl Hudson-keyboards, Matt Pegg-bass, Geoff Dunn-drums. It's True Funk!
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