CITY FUNK ORCHESTRA

City Funk Orchestra - The capital’s best and most popular funk/soul dance band plays to packed houses throughout London and the South filling a variety of popular music venues. CFO are now a regular attraction at both soul and mainstream festivals and Summer 2025 first saw them appearing amongst the headliners at the Saturday Love Festival in North London. Many Hampton Hub regulars will have been amongst the crowd on its feet at Hampton Pools Festivals in recent years, on the bill with amongst others Average White Band, Tony Hadley, Amy Winehouse Band, ABC and famously Kid Creole and the Coconuts. Their biggest audience was last Summer’s 10,000 capacity Cropredy Festival in Oxfordshire, opening the evening for Trevor Horne where the band was an unprecedented success. The band’s sound centres around the soul and funk ‘golden age’ of the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, to which these top players have added their magic ingredient of genuine authenticity. Featuring two of the best soul singers in the UK in - from Cleveland Ohio and brother of soul music legend Edwin Starr - the amazing Angelo Starr alongside one of UK’s top soul voices Mary Pearce (Lionel Richie, Culture Club, Roy Ayres) - with a funky-as-it-gets rhythm section of Nial Tompkins-guitar, Carl Hudson-keys, Matt Pegg-bass, Geoff Dunn-drums. In October ’25 City Funk Orchestra released the first of their self written/produced original songs This Could Be (more coming up) which was greeted with a wonderful reception from the major UK soul radio stations including several ‘Record Of The Week’ accolades from top soul/funk DJ’s. True Funk! (Bring your dancing shoes...) Advance tickets are £19 (£23 OTD) and can be purchased via the 'Get Tickets' button or you can text / call the box office on 07770 636303 to reserve your place. Doors at 7 and show around 8:30. See you there and feel free to share. Always a cracker... KEEPING IT LIVE!