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Now Booking Limited Engagements
Individual Or Package Deals
Festivals - Nightclubs - Theaters - Private Parties
Contact: Chris Jones
Meantime Lounge Presents
504-235-1005
Order New Orleans Funk 101 from the Louisiana Music Factory
This 12 Piece Funk Band Seamlessly Combines All the Elements that Make New Orleans Music a True World Music.
Reliant on Heavy Percussive, Improvisational Jams with Unpredictable Turns The 101 Runners Blend the Funk of the Mardi Gras Indians Such As the Wild Tchoupitoulas and The Wild Magnolias with the Syncopated Strut of Groups Like the Meters, Neville Brothers, etc... The Band In Less Than Two Years Has Headlined Every Major Festival in New Orleans Including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest, VooDoo Music Experience, Congo Square Fest, etc... The 101 Has Also Headlined Tipitinas 6 Times and Held a regular Gig at The Infamous Maple Leaf Bar while also Being Nominated For Best Emerging New Orleans Artist '07.
Chris Jones - Congas, Vocals
Ajay Mallery - Drums, Vocals
Lionel Batiste Jr. - Bass Drum, Vocals
Boubacar Cissokko - African Percussion
Tom Worrell - Piano
War Chief Juan Pardo - Vocals
Isaac Kinchen - Vocals
Cornell Williams - Bass
June Yamagishi - Guitar
Jimmy Carpenter - Baritone Saxophone
and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux - Vocals
This "Three Piece" Band, Featuring Tom Worrell, Chris Jones, and Ashley Thibodaux Takes its Cue from the Famous Piano/Conga "Rhumba-Boogie" Collaboration of the Late, Great Professor Longhair and the Very Much Alive Master Percussionist
Alfred "Uganda" Roberts
101 Runners live at Tipitina's, February 6, 2010.
Find more video of the 101 Runners on YouTube.