Fast, fresh and funky: a mix of funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz, and amp-melting rock that gets people dancing.

14 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz-Funk, HIP-HOP/RAP: Jazz-Rap

Show all album songs: Fists of Funk Songs


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Funky Dory was born one fateful night when two ambitious but intoxicated musicians dared to dream of a thousand piece funk orchestra taking over their isolated town. Forces were assembled from the local talent pool and Funky Dory version 1.0 brought the groove from the bars of St. John's, Newfoundland to a showcase at the 2002 Juno Award Conference as well as CBC television's national show Zed hosted by rapper Kardinal Official. Over the next few years the band changed a lot as people moved away for school and work as most young people on this island end up having to do. For a while the joke was made that all our gigs seemed to be farewell shows for one member or another. Either way, whatever couldn't kill the funk only made it stronger... we've got a huge set of original tunes now, written by past and current members, and have just released our first groovalicious album, Fists of Funk. It's over an hour of super tight funky instrumentals, as well as hip-hop and vocal tunes. It comes with a funk-superhero comic about the adventures of Funky Dory fighting off the evil haters to restore peace and funkiness to the land. It'll be available soon on cdbaby.com for all you funky mainlanders out there. This new version of the band has gotten crowds moving at countless bar shows, two MusicNL awards conferences, St. Pierre's (a small island owned by France) Bastille Day celebrations, St. John's Peace-A-Chord festivals, a number of charitable events, and several appearances on Roger's television's "Out of the Fog" and "Summer Breeze". The media have been taking notice of the album, too. We just had a great review in The Telegram (the province's main newspaper) and we've recently done radio interviews on CBC and Newfoundland's K-Rock. We've just been asked to play at the MusicNL (the province's music industry assosiation) awards show, and have been nominated for three MusicNL awards: Group of the Year, Entertainer of the Year, and Jazz Group of the Year.