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Big Sam's Funky Nation at Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts (University of Connecticut)
Courtesy of Elizabeth Sanders | Posted on September 18, 2013
Where
Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts (University of Connecticut)
2132 Hillside Road
Storrs, CT
Map
860-486-5795
When
Fri, February 28, 2014
8:00pm
Save the date
Musicians
About
MARDI GRAS DANCE CABARET
Doors open at 7:00 pm
Sandwiches, soup, salad, dessert, cash bar
Big Sam's Funky Nation is a driving force of urban funk. Ryan White, of the Oregonian, says the band is "tight enough (and hot enough) to turn coal into a diamond!" The band is led by trombone powerhouse Big Sam Williams, formerly the trombonist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who the San Franciso Chronicle calls "the top man on the slide trombone in the birthplace of jazz." Big Sam refuses to let the audience sit still. Between the band's solos, Big Sam's signature dance moves and his distinctive trombone riffs, the energy level is high voltage when this band takes the stage...