![]() ![]() “The stage is where the spirit of Five Alarm Funk lives. “We’ve always been known as a live band first,” the band related in a March 2017 email interview with Emily Frewin of Canadian Beats Media. Wild costumes, props, and frenetic choreography complement seriously tight arrangements and genre-mashing grooves. “Big Smoke is the tightest, funkiest and most energized album we’ve ever created … the culmination of 17 years of creating, recording, and performing together,” says Branston of the 2020 11-track recording that features collaborations with the legendary Bootsy Collins and baritone sax standout Leo P of Too Many Zooz.īut as well received and welcomed as the band’s studio work has been, the essence of Five Alarm Funk remains rooted in its live show manifestation.Ī typical sweat-drenched performance is anything but typical, infused with an intense fun spirit that breaks down the barrier between band and audience, a manic dance party being the inevitable result. The band’s Facebook descriptor - ‘A horn-powered, percussion-fuelled sonic and visual assault’ - sums up all newbies really need to know. Led by singer and drummer Tayo Branston, the band brings to its audience what he terms ‘punk funk’ - a raucously fun sound accompanied by an equally frenetic stage presence that is near impossible to sit still to. With two Juno Award nominations in its rear-view mirror, Five Alarm Funk has burned up stages across four continents, all while recording seven albums since 2006’s self-titled debut, the latest being 2020’s Big Smoke. Having last appeared at Del Crary Park in 2019 in tandem with Toronto rapper K-OS, Five Alarm Funk returns to headline Peterborough Musicfest on Wednesday, July 12th in a free-admission concert that’s part of the band’s celebratory 20th anniversary tour crossing Canada before dipping south come September. With two decades in the books, Five Alarm Funk is as sweaty as ever.įor fans both new and old of the Vancouver-born band’s fiery rhythms, punchy horns, and gang-chat vocals, that’s as good as it gets as they sweat in unison, the perspired-soaked result of an inability to not move to some degree. There’s no public parking at Del Crary Park, but there’s neighbourhood street parking nearby and ample parking in downtown Peterborough. ![]() N., Peterborough)īring your own lawn chairs or blankets (lawn chairs are available to rent). ![]()
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