YPSILANTI, MI -- Funkiness is coming to downtown Ypsilanti with a week full of live, original music. Funky Rivertown Fest is 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 19, through Friday, March 22, and 2 to 11 ...

Instead of emphasizing chord changes and melody, funk accentuated heavily syncopated beats and rhythmic and repetitive bass lines.

If you've seen Funky Unkle in a live setting, you know a couple things. First, they know how to get a room moving. And second, there's a lot of them. Nine members, to be exact. A stage can barely ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...