Haw River Ballroom was recently treated to a double-billed funk invasion featuring Turkuaz and Lettuce—these vastly talented groups bring the promise of hard-hitting basslines, sizzling horns, and jazzy guitar riffs. The mixed crowd spanning a few decades in age came ready to dance in the venue tucked away in small Saxapahaw, North Carolina. Turkuaz opened…
“From day one. it was always the vision to have this exact band that we have, this setup,” says Dave Brandwine, guitarist and lead vocalist of Turkuaz. “We’re just fortunate enough that we’re not only a band of nine people but we’re a band of nine really close friends, like a family. Everyone intuitively knows…
What is funk? Can it simply be qualified as a genre of music influenced by blues, jazz, and soul? How about a lifestyle full of colorful and flashy clothes and an infectious positive attitude? Is funk dead? Turkuaz certainly doesn’t believe so and presses ahead with their latest release Life in the City. Prolific chunky…
While I can always find a bit of dancing—or at least some rhythmic toe tapping and finger pointing—at most concerts, the fans of Turkuaz showed up to the Exit/In ready to move. Sneakers were the footwear of the evening, and it was clear the crowd was ready to get down with the nine-member funk band…