Ivan Neville News

Mem Shannon, Lil Bryan and the Zydeco Travelers in addition to Ivan Neville and Dumpstaphunk, bring the funky good time sounds of the Gulf Coast to this year's Pittsburgh Blues Festival.

Second-generation Neville brother Ivan Neville has in record time made his DUMPSTAPHUNK outfit the premier funk band in New Orleans.

Ivan Neville doesn't say no very often. As a lifelong musician , he's lent his piano skills to everyone from The Rolling Stones and The Meters to Don Henley and Paula Abdul.

Mike Gordon Rounder Records is proud to announce the release of Mike Gordon 's solo album, The Green Sparrow .

“There are times on stage when we got two basses going.”

Funk comes in many rump-twisting varieties. There's old-school Dyke and the Blazers funk. via Buffalo News

Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk is more main gig than side project lately. Born from a just-this-once gig at New Orlean's venerable Jazz Fest, the pedigreed funk machine that is Dumpstaphunk tore the Oriental ... via Denver Post

Big Sam's Funky Nation March means Spring and Spring means Peace, Love & Understanding , the new CD by Big Sam's Funky Nation , available March 22. via JamBase

“Just when you think things can't get any funkier”

It was close to midnight and the snowstorm that'd eventually leave New York under six inches the next day was just picking up, and Warren Haynes had climbed aboard the stage at Sullivan Hall, taking his place ... via Glide Magazine

Read more Performance Impressions Like minds funk alike. When bassist John Heintz got together with John-Paul Miller and Derrick Johnson from Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band with an idea to create an all-star ... via KyndMusic/RightAction

Mardi Gras weekend at 202 Market With Eric Lindell on Friday and the Sway Katz on Saturday Eric Lindell, an Alligator Records artist, delivers sweet soul, dirty funk, tasty guitar playing and gritty vocals. via Roanoke Times

Ivan Neville brings some New Orleans funk to South Florida. Details: Superjam with Ivan Neville, Tony Hall, Eric Krasno, Raymond Weber, and Skerik takes place Thursday, January 10, at City Limits, 19 NE Third ... via Broward-Palm Beach

Skerik Rolling off Jam Cruise on January 10 at City Limits in Delray Beach, FL and on January 11 at the Culture Room in Ft. via JamBase

Asheville's Elliot Heller, best-known as DJ Equal, comes from a musical family. His brother is Drew Heller, guitarist for Toubab Krewe, and his father, Steven, is a Grammy-winning Asheville-based producer. via Asheville Citizen-Times

“My elder brother told me that when I was a baby he held me in his arms and he said, 'Come little toots.' It's my pet name and people got to know that am called Toots.”

With reggae masters Toots & the Maytals, keyboard wizard Ivan Neville & Dumpstaphunk, jazz trumpet trail blazer Christian Scott and his nouveau sax uncle, Donald Harrison on tap, it's clear that the Voodoo ... via Louisiana Weekly