Super Diamond
Funk Shui
- Crystal Hotel & Ballroom - Crystal Ballroom |
- Friday, March 19
- 8 p.m. doors, 9 p.m. show |
- $18 advance, $20 day of show |
- 21 and over
Tickets on sale now!
About Super Diamond
Admit it: like all of us, you have a special memory indelibly linked to a Neil Diamond song -- maybe "Sweet Caroline," maybe "Forever in Blue Jeans," maybe another of Diamond's gems. Whether you know it yet or not, this is the band for you.
For over a decade, Super Diamond has sought to spread the word of Neil with their own interpretation of the man's classic oeuvre. As a child, frontman Surreal Neil grew up listening to the artist along with his parents and later discovered, while developing his skills as a singer/songwriter, that he had an astonishing ability to sing Neil Diamond songs in a very Neil-like way.
After assembling a band of truly kindred spirits to support his impassioned renditions of some of the best music ever written, Surreal Neil and Super Diamond began to perform regularly in San Francisco and then all over the U.S., and something quite wonderful happened: people turned out in large numbers to see them, and returned again and again and again.
- website:
- http://www.superdiamond.com
About Funk Shui
Funk Shui is the Portland-based six-piece funk & rock 'n' roll band comprised of the rhythm section of the once and future, humble but mighty Treefrogs plus many other superstar players, sit-in soloists and superhero special guests.
Funk Shui formed at an open funk jam at the famous Biddy McGraw's Irish Pub when it was still on southeast Hawthorne in Portland. Using ninja tactics and careful sedition, bassist Sean Nowland (a.k.a. The Shag) launched a bloodless coup with support from drummer Jeff Duffy and front man guitarist/vocalist John Henry Bourke. Using the power of the Bass-Drum-Bass, they dismissed the standing army of funk jammers and installed a new government of funk... the era of Funk Shui began.
- website:
- http://www.funkshuipdx.com
- MySpace:
- http://www.myspace.com/funkshuipdx
