USA/IRELAND Music

Snarky Puppy & Kormac's Big Band

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Part of Foxtel Festival Hub series.

For the final weekend of Melbourne Festival, a maelstrom of funk, swing and hip-hop bebop descends on the Foxtel Festival Hub.

For over ten years, Grammy Award winning jazz-funk collective Snarky Puppy have been rewriting the rulebook on American jazz. Led by visionary bassist and composer Michael League, Snarky Puppy calls upon an ever-changing roster of more than 40 of America’s greatest session musicians to deliver the most explosive, most irrepressible and most unpredictable big band experience in the world today.

“The nine-piece band [Snarky Puppy] is built to groove… thumping out irrepressible surges of energy.” THE SCOTSMAN

Featuring a line up of musicians who perform regularly with artists including Erykah Badu, Snoop Dogg, Kirk Franklin, Justin Timberlake, Roy Hargrove, and Marcus Miller (to name just a few), and with their latest album, We Like It Here, still sizzling, Snarky Puppy bring their whirlwind of soul vibrations, power-packed funk and deadly improvisation to Melbourne Festival

Rounding out this night of sonic pandemonium is Kormac’s Big Band, an 11-piece, 1950s jazz influenced hip-hop orchestra hailing from Dublin.

Led by the eponymous DJ Kormac – who made a name for himself through beat-heavy, party-ready reworkings of old style swing and bebop – Kormac’s Big Band bring his out-of-this world compositions to life with the help of rap MCs, a full brass section and a healthy dose of scratching. Musical mayhem is guaranteed.

“Kormac kicked the night into action with his 11-piece orchestra… A hugely entertaining set, bringing DJing to a whole new level.” IRISH MIRROR