Tue, Dec 4. | Goldenvoice Presents:
SOLD OUT: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings with DJ O-Dub
Doors @ 8pm | $16.00
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are a funk/soul band. They are signed to Daptone Records, where the Dap-Kings are the house band. Lead singer Sharon Jones originally appeared on the Soul Providers' album Soul Tequila, which started the collaboration between her and Bosco Mann aka Gabe Roth. The Dap-Kings consist of various musicians in the New York Deep Funk scene, including Neal Sugarman, Binky Griptite, David Guy, Bosco Mann, Tommy Brenneck, Homer Steinweiss and Ian Hendrickson-Smith.Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have so far released two albums and a handful singles on Daptone Records. In 2006, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings were featured in an I Love NY commercial set to their cover of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land". The band's cover of Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)" also appeared in a Chase Manhattan Bank commercial that same year. In Australia, their song "Got a Thing on my Mind" featured in a 2005 commencial for Cadbury's Boost Chocolate bar. In 2006, most of the Dap-Kings played on the instrumental part to Amy Winehouse's UK hit, "Rehab". Also in the 2007 release of producer [Mark Ronson's] "Version" CD the Dapking Horn section were highlighted throughout this production. – wikipedia.com