The founding fathers of funk are stretching out in a Big Easy kind of way as George Porter, David Russell Batiste and Brian Stoltz of the Funky Meters bring their funky jam to Vail today. “It’s a new ...

Formed during an informal jam during the 1989 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Art Neville, George Porter Jr., and Russell Batiste Jr., founded what would be the core of the funky METERS. The ...

Funk predates rock ’n’ roll. The highly syncopated form can be traced back to 1953, when jazz pianist Horace Silver began recording original songs such as “Opus de Funk” for Blue Note Records. With ...

Arthur Neville has been an icon of the New Orleans music scene for half a century. Nicknamed “Poppa Funk,” Neville helped create the sound that James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone would later ...

Art Neville will lead a revamped version of the Funky Meters at the House of Blues on Saturday, the band's first hometown appearance in two years and first with Art's 25-year-old son, Ian, as the band ...

The Funk owes George Porter Jr. a lot. But The Funk ain’t payin’. Hip-hop producers shower Porter’s band, the Meters, with the most sincere form of flattery: sampling the group’s sinewy grooves to ...

White hippies. Black rappers. Your mom. Her grandson. Musicians who know exactly what they're listening to and worship it. Casual fans with no idea what the band's name is but recognize the grooves ...

The Funky Meters are direct descendents of a line of super-funky New Orleans players. In fact, two members helped found the original band, The Meters, who played as Allen Toussaint’s house band during ...

Funky Meters is a good name for any band. However, the band that actually calls itself Funky Meters contains two original members of the legendary New Orleans R&B quartet The Meters and basically ...

NEW ORLEANS — Art Neville, a member of a storied New Orleans musical family who performed with his siblings in The Neville Brothers band and founded the groundbreaking funk group The Meters, died ...

Were you SEEN at Alive at Five watching The Funky Meters, with opening act Wurliday on Thursday July 13, 2017 in Albany, NY? Were you SEEN at Alive at Five watching The Funky Meters, with opening act ...

If you want to get technical about it, the name Funky Meters is redundant – because what would funk be without the Meters? When keyboardist Art Neville, bassist George Porter Jr., drummer Zigaboo ...