Vocals: Joyce Ferreira, Monica Ambroziac, Linda Viens, Gabriel Agachio
Guitars: Louie Leeman, Sam Davis
Bass: Steve Levesque, Kimon Kirk
Percussion: James Reitzas, Phil Neighbors, Jerome Dupree, Ian Mac, Jack Leandro.
Keys: Malcolm Walsh, Jim Gambino
The Wall of Sound Horns:
Trombone: Lennie Peterson, Dave Harris
Saxes: Miriam Myman, Mike Crowley, Mike Monte, Mark Caughill, Ted DeColo.
Trumpets: Rick Smith, John Frazee, Glenn MacKillop.
Harmonica: Jack Skammels
"Contributing Kickin' Players"
Billy Beard, Billy Conway, Jay Janney, Mark Sandman, John Sands, Dana Colley, Andrew Mazzone, Asa Brebner, Chris Stovall Brown, Ricky Bates, Frankie Ray, Cathy Bowers, King Kane, Jimmy Fitton, Dana Colley, Al Machado, Chandler Travis, Dan Weiner, Jeff Robenson, John Fraser, Tony Q Jimmy Fitton
The Heaven Players:
Earl Johnson, Percussion
Al Oliviera, Sax, Clarinet, Flute.
Bookings: jtferreira01@verizon.net
funkywhitehonkies@gmail.com
faulknerchild@comcast.net
Influences
Dr. John, Professor Long Hair, Chuck Berry, Van Morrison, The Standells, Mowtown, Sun Records,Reverend Al Green, Morphine, James Brown,Irma Thomas, The Honeydrippers, Etta James,
KoKo Taylor, Frank Morroco, Art Van Damme,Chrissie Hynde, Deborah Harry,
Ray Charles &The Rayettes, Elvis, Chuck Barry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Milton, Ruth Brown, Bonnie Raitt, Dusty Springfield, Billie Holliday, Joni Mitchell, Jimmy Reed, Buddy Guy,John Lee Hooker, The Band,The Memphis Horns, Lee Allen,Antoine Salley,Nancy Wright, American Roots Music, Sarah Vaughn, Johnny Cash, Lou Reed, Richard & Linda Thompson. Diane Schuur, B.B.King, Albert King, Martha & The Vandellas,The Band, Willie Nelson, Ray Price, Aimee Mann, Patti Smith, Mavis Staples, Bettye Lavette, The Funk Brothers, Patti Smith,Lena Horne, LuLu, Minnie Ripperton,Mavis Staples,Tim Buckley, Leonard Cohen,Pete Seeger,Bob Dylan,Junior Walker and the Allstars,Lena Horn,Bessie Smith,Bobby Darin, Sly and the Family Stone, Bo Didley, Mississippi John Hurt,Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and on and on and on.
Press Release: December 2007 jimsullivanink.com
a Boston arts & events guide.........with ATTITUDE
White? Honkies? Funky? See For Your Bad Self at Johnny D's
Friday, 07 September 2007
Fri. Sept. 7
Linda Viens (in photo) - co-lead siinger of sad country-rockers Angeline, former member of Boston Rock Opera and the funk-happy Crown Electric Co. - is one of our favorite 40-something Boston rockers. I mean, really: She's kind, she's sexy, she's funky, she's smart. What's not to love? Well, she's got another band she's with, too, and here's what she tells us about the Funky White Honkies and their set Friday Sept. 7 at Johnny D's: "Led by the fearlessly un-selfconscious and immensely talented Dinty Child, (perhaps best-known for being a member of Boston roots/rock masters Session Americana), the rag tag posse of the Funky White Honkies hits the stage at Johnny D's in Davis Square, Somerville for two long sets. More of a 'tribe' than a band, the Honkies have been around for years, providing a gorgeously joyous and loose dance experience for people of every age, leanings, stripe, and style. With it's large, rotating band of expert players, and under the spontaneous direction of Dinty, the Honkies converge for one purpose only: to get down and get dirty, laying down a set of grooves that start loose, and build inexorably to nothing less than pure, transcendent jazz/funk/punk fueled cacaphony." JSink insert: Wowie! Viens continues: "Horn players roam the room New Orleans style, the washboard player grins under his dusty fedora, the two drummers maniacally layer the beats, Dinty wails on the accordion from the top of a wobbly amp, polkas start and stop inside disc grooves and the backup singers bang on tamborines and fall over laughing ... all to make you do one thing: free the primal urge to move! As the great funk God George Clinton said, 'Free your ass, and your mind will follow.' Never has dancing felt so natural, so subversive, and so damn good." The FWH play two sets, starting around 9 p.m. Cover: $10.
17 Holland St., Somerville, 617-776-2006 www.johnnyds.com
"Led by the fearlessly un-selfconscious and immensely talented Dinty Child, (perhaps best-known for being a member of Boston roots/rock masters Session Americana), the Funky White Honkies are a rag tag band of fine New England music veterans. More of a 'tribe' than a band, the Honkies have been around for years, providing a gorgeously joyous and free dance experience for people of every age, leanings, stripe, and style. With it's large, rotating band of expert players, and under the spontaneous direction of Dinty, the Honkies converge for one purpose only: to get down and get dirty, laying down a set of grooves that start loose, and build inexorably to nothing less than pure, transcendent jazz/funk/punk fueled cacaphony. On a typical Honkies night (or afternoon; they dig those beach party gigs) Horn players roam about New Orleans style, the washboard player grins under his dusty fedora, the TWO drummers maniacally layer the beats, Dinty wails on an accordion a-top a wobbly amp, polkas start and stop inside disc grooves and the back-up singers bang on tamborines and fall over laughing ... all to make you do one thing: free the primal urge to move. As the great funk God George Clinton once said, 'Free your ass, and your mind will follow.' Never has dancing felt so natural, so subversive, and so damn good."
Thanks for the add! Love your sound! Just moved to the Boston area and a friend from home told me I have to catch your show! Just missed the Johnny D's show.......where's the band's schedule?
