A funk band for parties, after-parties and patios.

A set is built around the flow of your evening. Through dinner the band plays the slower, warmer end of the material at a level the table talks across, and once the floor is open the tempos come up and the songs run into each other, because there’s no verse to wait for. When you want the same songwriters sung out front, the soul and R&B band is the sung version of this booking. The wider covers list is searchable on the repertoire page, and the first learned song is included in every booking.

Milestone birthdays and private parties

The fortieth or fiftieth where the furniture ends up against the wall. Private parties covers the sizes and the venues, and the trio is the size most of those parties book, because it fills a floor without a stage.

The hour after a company dinner

Once the remarks are done and the floor is open. The after-party page sets out how that hour is booked on the sound system that’s already up, and the corporate page covers the contract and the paperwork.

Summer picnics and patios

A lawn or a rooftop in July, where an instrumental band can play all afternoon without anyone needing to face a stage. Company picnic entertainment ideas in Denver puts it beside the other formats a summer party can take.

The last night of a retreat

The one the group retells on the flight home, when the whole company is in one place. Corporate retreats covers the mountain venues, the travel line and the altitude.

Funk band questions

The operational questions, from substitutions to decibel caps, are on the full question list.

What does the funk band play?

Instrumental funk and soul covers: James Brown, The Meters, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Sly and the Family Stone, Prince and Earth, Wind and Fire, played by guitar, bass and drums, with a horn or keys at quartet size. There's no singer, so what your guests recognise is the groove rather than the words, and the band can run a set for as long as the floor wants it without anyone waiting for a chorus.

How small can this booking be?

A trio: guitar, bass and drums. It sets up in 12 by 8 feet on one dedicated 20-amp circuit, loads in inside an hour, and plays a dinner set at 65 to 72 dBA at the nearest table before the night turns.

Will it fill a dance floor?

Yes, at trio size, in a venue where the floor is close to the tables: a private club, a restaurant buyout, a backyard, a company party under two hundred. For a ballroom past that, the quartet with a horn carries better, and the DJ can take the late night on the same sound system when the band is done.

Is there a singer?

No. This is the instrumental format. When you want the same songwriters sung out front, with a horn on the big choruses, that's the soul and R&B band, which is the sung version of the same idea and books the same way.

Can it play outdoors?

Yes, and a patio or a lawn is where a lot of its work is. It needs a covered, level and dry performance area with power run to it, and we agree a move-indoors plan with you ahead of time, because a Colorado afternoon turns fast and the electronics stop behaving in the wet.