SummerStage

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George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic with special guests The Motet with Shira Elias, Josh Schwartz and Chris Brouwers (formerly of Turkuaz), Dopapod, The Pimps of Joytime, Blu Eye Extinction and Funk Flex
Presented by Sony Presents the Blue Note Jazz Festival

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Doors open 5:00 pm)

Central Park

Rumsey Playfield, Manhattan 10021

George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic are more than just a great band, they remain a pillar of Black music. Laying the blueprint for funk in the 1970s by channeling R&B, soul, and rock and roll into space travelling acid trips, they would also provide the building blocks for the G-Funk sound that dominated the West Coast hip-hop scene in the early 1990s, through the samples that permeated its seminal work, Dr. Dre’s 1992 classic The Chronic. The Parliament/Funkadelic band and show is the fruit of the collective of dozens of musicians assembled by Clinton, and is an amalgamation of two distinct acts; Funkadelic’s psychedelic Hendrix-descendant rock and roll, and Parliament’s funk free-for-all, filtering James Brown and Sly Stone through ’60s acid culture and science fiction.

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