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Legends For Relief Add Faze-O To Benefit Concert Line-Up

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Dayton’s Biggest Funk Concert just got bigger!  It’s just been announced that Faze-O, featuring Grammy Award winning Keith Harrison, will open the #937-Live Legend’s for relief concert. Faze-O, another funk band that started right here in Dayton, OH and produced by Clarence Satchell of the Ohio Players, is best know for its hit songs Riding High and Good Thang.

Keith Harrison

Keith Harrison of Faze-O shared, “When I first heard about the #937- Live Legends for Relief Concert, it was a call from Steve Shockley of Lakeside asking me if I wanted to open the show. I thought wow, what an honor it would be because many of my friends, and my home and property were affected by the tornado storm. When he told me who the lineup was going to be the first thing that came to my mine was Faze-O should be on this show. So I called the fellas and asked them, and they said yes, let’s do this!  Steve said yes, this is going to be great. I’m always in the give back to our city mode. To be on a platform of this magnitude means a lot to me. Helping others is what it’s all about.”

#937- Live, Legends for Relief is a benefit concert with some of Dayton’s top, platinum selling recording artists.

The Ohio Players:

 

The Original Lakeside:

Zapp

 

and special guest Steve Arrington:

 

 

The artists have graciously donated their time and talents to create this special performance in order to help in the recovery process of the Miami Valley’s affected areas.  The concert will be held on Wednesday, September 18, 2019, at The Rose Music Center in Huber Heights, Ohio, from 7pm to 11pm and is presented by Rieck Services The money raised from the concert will be donated to the Dayton Foundation’s Greater Dayton Disaster Relief Fund. This concert is made possible by all of our partners and sponsors of the event. The support of the community will make this night a success for the Miami Valley region and those affected by the tornados.

Concert and ticket information can be found on the Rose Music Center’s website, www.rosemusiccenter.com and donations will be accepted on the Planned2Give website www.planned2give.org. Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster.com, RoseMusicCenter.com, and the Rose Music Center box office.

Blame It On The Funk

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Do you remember the day when you fell in love with Funk? The day you got on the Loverollercoaster to take a ride. Junebug remembers it well. When the soon to be hit ‘Skin Tight’ from Dayton’s own The Ohio Players hit the airwaves, love hit a sixteen year-old Junebug right in the face in the form of a shy, yet stunningly beautiful girl named Elley. Junebug would spend the next decade pursuing the loves of his life – Elley and Dayton funk.

Blame It On The Funk is a stage play presenting some of Dayton’s most talented new school musicians, singers and dancers who will pay tribute to old school Dayton Funk through the performance of songs by the Ohio Players, Heatwave, Slave, Faze-O and Zapp. Join Junebug and Elley on their journey to find love as shared by Junebug with his granddaughter Mia.hxqbm4h5d8b4bp620szfp7alalbclhss

Faze-O Reunites to Bring the Funk to Gilly’s

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In the 1970’s Dayton was a hotbed for funk.  One of the great bands that’s often mentioned in the same breath as the Ohio Players, Lakeside and Slave is Faze-O.  Produced by Clarence Satchell of the Ohio Players, one of the band’s most famous song is the title track from their 1977 album, Riding High.  That song has gone on to be sampled by many modern hip hop artists, including Snoop Dogg and Ice Cube, but you can hear the real thing this weekend at Gilly’s.

After 30 years, Faze-O has reunited and will be performing at show at Gilly’s on Saturday night, April 23rd, beginning at 9pm.  The show also features a guest  appearance by Cherlyn Aikens. Tickets are available at Omega Music.

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