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If you were confused about what this funk and soul collective were all about, let me tell you, it doesn’t take much to work it out, but I’ll explain it briefly: there’s a large group of musicians on stage living it up, playing an insane soul set.

Parliament-Funkadelic have been headed up by funk legend George Clinton ever since their formation in 1968, and sixteen of the most prominent members were initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as members of the collective in 1997.

Despite the chaotic nature of the number of members on one stage at any given time, P-Funk’s live shows are always a highlight. Performing a collection of their own tracks, covers, and solo work of the members, the rhythm will leave you mesmerised

Vocalist George Clinton’s ‘Atomic Dog’ is always a favourite of the set - but also ensure you become familiar with ‘Do That Stuff’, and ‘Mothership Connection’, to name a few, if you are to check out these guys live. I can assure you, you won’t be disappointed.

Parliament Funkadelic have put such a stamp on the funk and soul scene that ‘P-Funk’ has almost become a music genre in its own right, and any fan of funk will know about their work.

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Good show. Me, wifey and friend had a pretty good time. I did have an issue with the flow of the show. No opening act that "opened" the show. No introduction for Clinton and the rapper and r&b singer in the middle of the show really threw the vibe off and people started to leave. It took a little time to get back on vibe but it ended up well. Clinton should have had them as opening acts, and let the band play during intermission. But all and all I finally had a (watered down) Clinton experience and I was overall satisfied.

Parliament and Funkadelic was one of my favorite groups growing up in the seventies I've been a original funkateer for a long time George and his group today we're amazing I would recommend this show for young and old giving up the funk long live dr. Funkenstein

Awesome show! One big party from start to finish. 16 funkateers on stage, many of them multi talented. Performers ages range from 18 to 76, so cool to see four generations blowing the roof of a venue together. Make my funk the P funk!

If you were a child of the 70's, you probably remember P-FUNK.1st thang, they play Loud & Long! 2nd them mugs will keep on playing until everyone leaves.11/2/18,I Will Be There!

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The funk will never die.

However, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic may be hanging it up for good soon.

Starting July 27, the legendary group will launch their 29-concert ‘Just For The Funk Of It! Final Tour?!?’ that just might be their last.

Yes, we’re not sure if this is it for the 82-year-old and his intergalactic band or not.

And if you’re in New York and New Jersey you thankfully still have a few more chances to see the band live.

Clinton and co. will bring “Flashlight,” “Atomic Dog,” “Give Up The Funk,” “One Nation Under A Groove” and more to Port Chester, NY’s Capitol Theatre on Aug. 18, Montclair, NJ’s Wellmont Theater on Aug. 19 and Westbury, NY’s NYCB Theatre on Oct. 28.

But that’s not all — the band has tickets available for all 29 of their “maybe” final shows this summer, fall and winter.

Some Parliament concerts have rather inexpensive seats ready for purchase too.

At the time of publication, we found some Parliament tickets going for as low as $18 before fees on Vivid Seats.

Now, that’s truly Funkadelic.

To be fair, that is a bit of an outlier. Most shows’ ticket prices start in the $30 to $110 range .

Want to tear the roof off the sucker again?

Here’s everything you need to know and more about the ‘Just For The Funk Of It! Final Tour?!?’

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On Sept. 15-17, the annual Riot Fest is returning to Chicago, IL’s Douglass Park for three days of genre-bending fun.

Just a few of the headliners on this year’s bill include Foo Fighters , Death Cab For Cutie , Queens of the Stone Age , The Cure and The Mars Volta .

Yes, none of those acts are like Parliament but they all have something in common — they’re all great live.

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Parliament Funkadelic set list

With a career spanning over 50 years, it’s hard to whittle a set list down to just a few songs.

Somehow, Parliament does it night in and night out.

For a closer look at what to expect at a live show, here’s what the band played at a recent concert courtesy of Set List FM .

01.) “Dr. Funkenstein”

02.) “Funkentelechy”

03.) “Up for the Down Stroke / Rumpofsteelskin” 04.) “Pole Power” 05.) “Meow Meow”

06.) “Get Low” 07.) “One Nation Under a Groove” 08.) “Flash Light” 09.) “(Not Just) Knee Deep” 10.) “All Your Goodies Are Gone” 11.) “Maggot Brain” 12.) “Jump Around” (House of Pain cover) 13.) “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) / Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples / Get Off Your A– and Jam” 14.) “Atomic Dog” (George Clinton song) 15.) “Mommy, What’s a Funkadelic? / Hit It and Quit It / Super Stupid / Standing on the Verge of Getting It On / Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis Enema Squad (The Doo-Doo Chasers)”

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At select shows, Clinton and co. (who you might remember from the classic film “Good Burger”) will take a few major stars along with them for the ride.

To make sure you’re familiar with their music, we found each special guest’s most streamed track on Spotify.

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Fishbone: “Ma and Pa”

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George Porter Jr.: “Fall Right In”

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George Clinton Details Final Tour With Parliament-Funkadelic

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After five decades of life on tour buses and Motherships, George Clinton is ready to retire from the road. The U.S. dates of his long goodbye, which he’s dubbed the One Nation Under a Groove Tour, will kick off this spring and run through August.

“It’s coming right on time,” Clinton tells Rolling Stone , saying the announcement is part of a plan he conceived a few years ago. It’s the next step after releasing his 2014 memoir, Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You? as well as Funkadelic ‘s 2014 album, First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate and Parliament ‘s 2018 album, Medicaid Fraud Dogg .

“I would love to keep on doing this but I’ll be 78 in a few more months,” he says. “Even though I feel like I’m just getting started, the reality is the group needs to go ahead and keep it going. We’ve got a new vibe in the band, and they’ve been carrying it for the last three years. I’ve been up there representing for people, but they’ve actually been turning the place out. And we’ve been selling out for the last five years, every night.”

The tour, which officially kicks off after Memorial Day weekend (though Clinton is playing some farewell tour dates beforehand), will variously feature openers Galactic, Dumpstaphunk, Fishbone and Miss Velvet and the Blue Wolf. Tickets for most shows go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. local time. Pre-sales will start on February 7th; more information is available at Clinton’s website .

The Parliament-Funkadelic band features several musicians who have been in the lineup for the last decade, as well as a handful — trumpeter Bennie Cowan, saxophonist Greg Thomas, bassist Lige Curry and guitarist Blackbird McKnight — who have been with the group for 30 years or longer. It also features many of Clinton’s descendants.

The tour’s title recalls both the 1978 album, One Nation Under a Groove , and blockbuster single of the same name. Clinton says the song’s message of unity is just as important today as it was when he wrote it. “Funk to me was just that groove that united everything,” he says. “So you could be funky no matter what kind of music you played. There’s a funk element somewhere that can be put into it. And the idea of one nation with everybody together [applies to] not only one nation, but one planet.”

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The tour, created by Universal Attractions Agency, coincides with Clinton receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys at a special ceremony on May 11th. It’s an honor that means a lot to him, since it’s a chance for him to recognize the dozens of P-Funk musicians who’ve played with him over the years. “It’s never been about me or no particular thing,” Clinton says. “The whole truth has always been what it’s about. As I’m getting ready to get a lifetime achievement award and all of that, there’s so many people that’s been in the band, it’s hard to even pick who all the people are. So people won’t get to see a lot of people, but still that award will belong to everybody that’s participated in making the P-Funk what it is. It will be for all the people that’s ever been through the P-Funk army.”

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3/9 – North Adams, MA @ Mass MOCA 4/4 – Atlanta, GA @ Cobb Energy Centre 4/11 – Honolulu, HI @ Blue Note Hawaii 4/12 – Honolulu, HI @ Blue Note Hawaii 4/13 – Honolulu, HI @ Blue Note Hawaii 4/14 – Honolulu, HI @ Blue Note Hawaii 5/26 – Chillicothe, IL @ Summer Camp Music Festival 5/30 – Milwaukee, WI @ Miller High Life Theatre * 5/31 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom * 6/1 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverfront Live * 6/4 – New York, NY @ Summerstage, Central Park ** 6/5 – Boston, MA @ Rockland Trust Bank Pavilion ** 6/6 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall ** 6/9 – Columbia, MD @ Capital Jazz Festival 6/15 – Tunica, MS @ Gold Strike Casino 8/2 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theater ** 8/3 – Saratoga, CA @ Mountain Winery ** 8/4 – Lincoln, CA @ Thunder Valley Casino *** 8/8 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox Sodo ** 8/10 – Portland, OR @ Oregon Zoo ** 8/11 – Eugene, OR @ Cuthbert Amphitheater ** 8/15 – Denver, CO @ TBA ** 8/17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Celebrity Theater ** 8/18 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl **

* with Galactic, Fishbone and Miss Velvet and the Blue Wolf ** with Fishbone, Dumpstaphunk and Miss Velvet and the Blue Wolf *** with Zapp, Fishbone, Dumpstaphunk and Miss Velvet and the Blue Wolf

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George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic Announce 2022 U.S. Tour

George Clinton & Parliament -Funkadelic have announced a stretch of late spring and summer tour dates in the United States. Dopapod, Pimps of Joytime, the Floozies, and the Motet are among those joining the band at different stops on the tour, which begins in mid-June and extends through August. See the full schedule below.

Clinton had previously announced that he was retiring from touring, claiming in 2018 that he’d go on a final trek the following year. More recently, Clinton and the band earned the honor of having a street named for them in Plainfield, New Jersey , where Clinton established the doo-wop group that eventually became Parliament-Funkadelic.

Wiz Khalifa is set to appear as Clinton in Spinning Gold , a forthcoming biopic about Casablanca Records head Neil Bogart. The label issued several of Parliament-Funkadelic’s records in the 1970s, including 1974’s Up for the Down Stroke and 1975’s Mothership Connection . 

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06-15 New York, NY - Summerstage @ Central Park !@ 06-18 New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall !@ 06-19 Worcester, MA - The Palladium !@ 06-24 Fort Wayne, IN - Piere’s @#$ 06-25 Indianapolis, IN - Clowes Memorial Hall  06-26 Cincinnati, OH - Riverfront Live @$ 06-30 Asheville, NC - Salvage Station $!@ 07-02 Pelham, TN - The Caverns $!@ 07-07 Philadelphia, PA - The Fillmore #@ 07-22 Fort Worth, TX - Wild Acre Live $%@ 07-23 Cedar Park, TX - The Haute Spot $%@ 08-11 Phoenix, AZ - Mesa Amphitheater $^! 08-13 Las Vegas, NV - Craig Ranch Amphitheater &* 08-17 Inglewood, CA - YouTube Theater $! 08-19 Saratoga, CA - Mountain Winery &$! 08-20 Blue Lake, CA - Blue Lake Casino &$! 08-21 Napa, CA - Charles Krug Winery $!

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Parliament Funkadelic recently unveiled a concert schedule stopping by select areas in North America. As one of the most popular Reggae / Reggaeton live performers to date, Parliament Funkadelic will eventually be performing on stage once again for fans to attend. Take a look at the lineup that follows and locate an event to attend. From there, you can view the show specifics, RSVP through Facebook and view a great selection of concert tickets. If you are unable to make any of the current performances, sign up for our Concert Tracker to get alerts right when Parliament Funkadelic performances are added in your town. Parliament Funkadelic possibly could release more North American events, so check back with us for up-to-date information.

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George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic Tease Final Tour, Drop Summer 2023 Dates

George Clinton and his Parliament-Funkadelic brethren have released an extensive list of tour dates that will take the crew from coast-to-coast this summer. The run has been dubbed Just For The Funk Of It! Final Tour?!? and arrives after Clinton’s most recent so-called farewell jaunt last summer.

The funk icons run will commence on July 27 in Reno, Nev., before following up the next evening with a show in Napa, Calif., where the ensemble is expected to participate in the Blue Note Jazz Festival. Next, they will pick up a pair of Pacific Northwest dates slated for Portland, Ore., and Seattle before moving on to the middle of the country. 

In continuation of the impending summer tour, the bandleader and his team of collaborators will take stands in Oklahoma and Texas in addition to an August 8 performance in Atlanta. Ensuing gigs in North Carolina will set up the group’s arrival in Boston on August 17.

Next, the crew is scheduled to play a show in Port Chester, N.Y. Then, they’ll return to the road on August 19, trekking over to Montclair, N.J., up until the time arrives for their show in Mashantucket, Conn., a few short days later, on August 20.

The so-called, Just For The Funk Of It! Final Tour?!? will take the musicians through Pittsburgh and Cleveland and continues with stops in Indianapolis before the last August date, which will occur in Louisville, Ky. A lone Nov. 25 concert is set to take place in Oakland, Calif., and serves as the band’s last date of this tour. 

On the road, Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic will welcome special guests Fishbone, Dumpstaphunk and George Porter Jr., who will join the headliners in select cities.

Despite the tour’s name, it has not been confirmed that this will be the final run of dates for Clinton and the ensemble. The bandleader has a history of taking breaks from the road and embarking on periods of retirement.

Scroll down to see the official tour announcement. For tickets, visit the band’s official website . 

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July 27 – Reno, Nev.

July 28 – Napa, Calif. 

July 29 – Portland, Ore.

July 30 – Seattle

August 4 – Oklahoma City, Okla. 

August 5 – Irving, Texas

August 6 – Houston

August 8 – Atlanta

August 9 – Raleigh, N.C.

August 10 – Charlotte, N.C. 

August 12 – Richmond, Va. 

August 15 – Baltimore

August 17 – Boston

August 18 – Port Chester, N.Y.

August 19 – Montclair, N.J.

August 20 – Mashantucket, Conn.

August 22 – Pittsburgh

August 24 – Cleveland

August 25 – Indianapolis, Ind. 

August 26 – Louisville, Ky.

November 25 – Oakland, Calif.

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Funk and the Chocolate City: How George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic Left a Mark on DC

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Uh, what's happening, CC? They still call it the White House But that's a temporary condition, too, can you dig it, CC? To each his reach and if I don't cop, it ain't mine to have But I'll be reachin' for ya, 'cause I love ya, CC, right on [1]

So begins funk group Parliament’s ode to Washington, D.C., or, as band leader George Clinton dubs it in their 1975 album, Chocolate City .

The idea of D.C. as a “Chocolate City” has been around much longer than the witty name, which was introduced by local radio DJs in the early 1970s. [2]  Before the capital was even finished, the population consisted of a significant number of black citizens, both free and enslaved. And as time went on, the percentage of people of color living in D.C. steadily rose until, in 1957, “D.C. became the first large city in the United States to be majority Black.” [3]

But it wasn’t just that majority that made D.C. the Chocolate City. By the ‘70s, when Clinton was crooning his love for the District, it was transforming politically and culturally. Washington had attracted activists who were eager to organize the large black community (by then over 70% of the population) for change. They fought for Home Rule, the opportunity to make their own decisions for the city. And they won.

On December 24, 1973 President Nixon signed legislation that created a local government for the District and granted D.C. residents the right to elect a mayor and city council, which would operate with oversight from Congress.

Black Power activists were elected into office and became “the power structure and system” which they had fought for so long to change. City leadership finally reflected the actual population – District affairs were no longer determined solely by white Congressmen from around the country. As scholars Derek Musgrove and Chris Myers Asch note, it was “an exciting opportunity to wield black power” and the new council did not waste it. [4]  The activists that had fought for equal rights in the previous decades “shifted the focus of black activism away from seeking equality of opportunity for the black middle class, and toward gaining resources and control for the poor” and began “focus[ing] their attention on proportional representation, power sharing, and multiculturalism.” [5]  Years of activism was bearing real fruit at an unprecedented level.

In this climate, the sounds of funk music resonated. Funk was a new sound for a new generation, “an undiluted fusion of all the genres of music,” and George Clinton, along with his group Parliament-Funkadelic, was there to lead the way. [6]  While Clinton was not originally from D.C., he and his band forged a special relationship with the city.

Parliament released the album Chocolate City as a tribute to D.C. in 1975 and, within a few weeks, sold over 150,000 albums in the Federal City alone. [7]  The lyrics of the title track “encouraged its audience to embrace their neighborhoods as Whites ran toward the suburbs” and “focuse[d] on Black domination of inner cities as a positive message.” [8]

Chocolate City is a celebration, an invitation to a growing community to love themselves. In the world Clinton illustrates, D.C. is the inheritance of black people from the government, the “forty acres and a mule” that was promised – and now finally achieved. [9]  Clinton saw a world where the status quo was turned on its head. “We had put blacks in places where they had never been perceived to be.” [10]  The purpose of the music was “to put black people in a better place…A lot of underlying themes in black music into the ‘70s was ‘We’re going to be free.’” [11]  And so, while people like Walter Washington and Marion Barry were taking city office, Clinton took the next step and put black people on Capitol Hill:

Reverend Ike, Secretary of the Treasure Richard Pryor, Minister of Education Stevie Wonder, Secretary of Fine Arts And Miss Aretha Franklin, the First Lady [12]

When asked why funk had become so popular in the 1970s, Clinton answered, “Black is what’s happening…Civil rights, the whole freedom thing has opened it up.” [13]  Washington especially appreciated that “whole freedom thing.”

As scholar Mia Anderson observed, Clinton and Parliament helped define the identity of D.C.’s black community – and those in other cities – in the uncertain lull following the Civil Rights Movement. “The band’s lyrics acknowledged a shift from black militancy and oppression to black voting power” (something D.C. residents were finally seeing) and the “changing view and hope of the black community that its economic and racial struggle could be eased through political activism.” [14]  Social and racial issues still permeated D.C. and the U.S., but the vote had been secured and the playing field had changed. Parliament-Funkadelic (and funk as a genre) reflected “the immediate after-the-movement frustrations of the people” characterized by “a paradox of social unrest and ubiquitous optimism.” [15]

Kenneth Carroll, a poet and lifelong resident of D.C., cited the profound influence of Parliament-Funkadelic on kids growing up in the housing projects: “Guys who literally could not read would be interpreting the pictures, the artwork [of the album covers], and they would come over [to] my crib. We’d be in my room going over what it meant…Part of the thing was that, for a lot of us in the inner city, they literally kind of opened the world up.” It helped kids in tough situations deal with real issues in a positive way. “In the framework of their music, there’s still questions of racism and economic exploitation, but also this idea that there’s a possibility of being beyond. That you can literally exist as a child of the universe somewhere, where color and class and none of that really matters. That people could be something else besides, you know, po’ niggas.” [16]

On the more light-hearted side of things, many young fans around the city began to dress, play, and act like the members of Parliament-Funkadelic. It seems that just about everything about P-Funk was being absorbed and displayed by the people of Washington, D.C. Would-be musicians placed ads in local papers looking for members to start “a funkadelic happening.” [17]  P-Funk became a culture: “I started dressing like them and everything,” said Gregory “Sugar Bear” Elliot, longtime frontman for the D.C. go-go band Experience Unlimited (E.U.). “And it worked. It added to our show, and people liked that. We had screaming guitars and that Funkadelic look.” [18]  The lore began to build, with some long-time fans even swearing that “the roof of the Capital Centre opened up and that Clinton’s now-famous ‘Mothership’ stage prop actually descended from the sky.” [19]

A P-Funk concert was a one-of-a-kind event. Over a dozen performers danced, played, and sang on stage at a time, each in a unique and unrelated costume. In fact, that was what the whole performance felt like: a handful of different dance parties and jam sessions taking place on the same stage, which somehow came together to create one sound, one experience. One D.C. journalist described a concert as more of a block party: “The rhythm throbbed and echoed through the stadium and drove the fans out of their seats until they filled the entire track area.” [20]

The relationship between the band and the District was symbiotic. As Washington Post reporter David Mills wrote following a 1992 show at Constitution Hall, “The people of Washington, D.C. (that is, C.C.), have had a special vibe going on with George and his traveling musical madhouse – Parliament-Funkadelic – since far ago in the ‘70s, back before the band could’ve even dreamed about the gold records and big-buck arena shows to come, back when they were playing homecoming gigs.” [21]  Show after show in venues around the city sold out as the band kept returning to their favorite fans. To bassist and singer Bootsy Collins, the reason was simple: “Y’all know this is our home. Chocolate City – home of the P-Funk.” [22]

Even the Mothership, the giant spaceship which seemed to come down from the sky at shows, had its own D.C. connections. The pricey stage prop sent fans into a new level of frenzy as the musicians “summoned” it mid-show, complete with glowing lights and pyrotechnics. Once the ship landed, George Clinton himself emerged, dressed as Dr. Funkenstein, one of several reoccurring characters in P-Funk lore.

Eventually, however, the Mothership became too expensive to maintain, move, and operate. Darryll Brooks, one of the band’s promoters, ended up storing it in his mother’s garage in Clinton, MD. After six months, she had had enough and demanded that it be moved elsewhere. Brooks couldn’t get in touch with any band members, so he sent it to a junk yard in Prince George’s County in Maryland. [23]  After that though, the Mothership disappeared.

No one knows what happened to the massive prop. [24]  Was it stolen? Taken apart? Burned? Is it still sitting somewhere, waiting to be rediscovered? Whatever might have happened to the original, a new Mothership was built in the mid ‘90s and used by the band for several more years before being tucked away in a storage unit in D.C. This time, the owners of the storage facility decided to make use of it themselves, opening the unit up to fans, turning on the ship, and hosting dance parties on the weekends. Clinton didn’t like that and had the replacement prop moved to his home in Tallahassee, Florida. [25]

In 2011, Clinton decided to donate the second Mothership to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture which would open in 2015. [26]  The Mothership was more than just a big flashy hunk of metal; it served as “a cosmic metaphor for the sense of possibility that followed the civil rights movement,” something that the museum now highlights in its exhibit Musical Crossroads . [27]

Since Chocolate City was released in 1975, the band has changed, and so have its fans. Modern shows “are a family affair” with the original members’ own children and grandchildren involved onstage and multiple generations of enthusiasts in the audience – “a delightful mix of the aged and the not-so-aged, all races and walks of life, but essentially the young at heart.” [28]  P-Funk continues to return to D.C., having performed their latest show on May 19 th , 2024 at the 9:30 Club. The special connection has lasted for over 50 years by now and is still going strong. As Clinton says in Chocolate City , “God bless CC.” [29]

Note: The DC Commission for Arts & Humanities is hosting “A Toast to the Boogie: Art in the Name of Funk(adelic),” an exhibit featuring “original artworks responding to the past, present, and future of funk music, psychedelic rock, and the cultural movements they inspire” by D.C. artists. Also on display will be new archival work and memorabilia from George Clinton’s family. While the chance to submit artwork has passed, there’s still an opportunity to view the collection. The exhibit will open on June 27 th and run through August 16 th , 2024 in the CAH’s exhibition space in the lobby of 200 I (Eye) St SE, Washington DC. [30]

• ^ “Chocolate City Lyrics by Parliament,” Lyric Advisor, accessed May 28, 2024, https://www.streetdirectory.com/lyricadvisor/song/eeoaof/chocolate_city/.
• ^ Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove, Chocolate City : A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital (Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2017), 381, http://archive.org/details/chocolatecityhis0000asch.
• ^ Philip Bump, “No Longer ‘Chocolate City,’ D.C. Sees Calls for Statehood Grow Louder,” Washington Post, March 22, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/03/22/no-longer-chocolate-city-calls-dc-statehood-grow-louder/.
• ^ Asch and Musgrove, Chocolate City, 380.
• ^ George Derek Musgrove, “Black Power in Washington D.C.,” accessed June 6, 2024, https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/5e17e7d1c4a8406b9eaf26a4eae77103/.
• ^ The Silence In Between (CMG International, 2009), loc. 0:16:40, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ANicuFsCnU.
• ^ Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under A Groove, 2005, loc. 0:24:20, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjQ5QcM1SfA.
• ^ Kesha M. Morant, “Language in Action: Funk Music as the Critical Voice of a Post—Civil Rights Movement Counterculture,” Journal of Black Studies 42, no. 1 (2011): 78–79.
• ^ “Chocolate City Lyrics by Parliament.”
• ^ Keith Harriston, “Forty Years Later, George Clinton’s Mothership Is Still Landing,” Andscape (blog), October 2, 2017, https://andscape.com/features/forty-years-later-george-clintons-mothership-is-still-landing/.
• ^ Harriston.
• ^ Abe Peck, “It’s Second Coming for Music of Funk Bands,” The Free Lance-Star, December 31, 1976, https://books.google.com/books?id=dQFOAAAAIBAJ&q=funk#v=snippet&q=funk&f=false.
• ^ Mia L. Anderson, “‘I Dig You, Chocolate City’: ‘Ebony’ and ‘Sepia’ Magazines’ Coverage of Black Political Progress, 1971–1977,” Journal of African American Studies 19, no. 4 (2015): 399, 407.
• ^ Morant, “Language in Action,” 75.
• ^ David Mills, “The P-Funk Flashback,” Washington Post, October 22, 1992, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1992/10/22/the-p-funk-flashback/8b1f352c-f74f-40ff-a173-153695f5301d/.
• ^ “Musicians Wanted Classified Ad,” Washington Star, May 3, 1976, https://infoweb-newsbank-com.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-NB&t=pubname%3A13D5DA85AE05A305%21Evening%2BStar&sort=YMD_date%3AD&page=1&fld-base-0=alltext&maxresults=20&val-base-0=funkadelic&docref=image/v2%3A13D5DA85AE05A305%40EANX-NB-14E5775581EA4933%402442902-14E3D9254551DB06%4042-14E3D9254551DB06%40.
• ^ Mills, “The P-Funk Flashback.”
• ^ Mills, "The P-Funk Flashback.”
• ^ Len Cohen, “Concert Became Block Party,” Washington Star, June 4, 1973, https://infoweb-newsbank-com.dclibrary.idm.oclc.org/apps/news/document-view?p=EANX-NB&t=pubname%3A13D5DA85AE05A305%21Evening%2BStar&sort=YMD_date%3AD&page=2&fld-base-0=alltext&maxresults=20&val-base-0=funkadelic&docref=image/v2%3A13D5DA85AE05A305%40EANX-NB-14D856174EEC3807%402441838-14D7B7A3725E4D2A%4036-14D7B7A3725E4D2A%40.
• ^ Jeff Campagna, “Smithsonian Wants George Clinton’s Funk,” Smithsonian Magazine, June 15, 2011, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/smithsonian-wants-george-clintons-funk-16015061/.
• ^ “Where in the World Is Parliament-Funkadelic’s Mothership?,” Portable Press, March 23, 2015, https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2015/03/where-in-the-world-is-parliament-funkadelics-mothership/.
• ^ Kirstin Fawcett, “Watch George Clinton’s P-Funk Mothership Get Reassembled For Its Museum Debut,” Smithsonian Magazine, June 14, 2014, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/watch-george-clintons-mothership-get-reassembled-for-its-museum-debut-180951685/.
• ^ Chris Richards, “Smithsonian Acquires Parliament-Funkadelic Mothership,” Washington Post (blog), May 19, 2011, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/smithsonian-acquires-parliament-funkadelic-mothership/2011/05/19/AFvjhA7G_blog.html.
• ^ Richards; “The Mothership, a Gift of Love to the Planet,” National Museum of African American History and Culture, accessed May 30, 2024, https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/mothership-gift-love-planet.
• ^ Kimberly Uslin, “The Beat Review: George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic,” Baltimore Style (blog), February 28, 2018, https://www.baltimorestyle.com/the-beat-review-george-clinton-parliament-funkadelic/; William Powell, “Review: ‘George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic’ Funk Up the Howard Theatre,” SpearHead, February 16, 2018, https://www.spearhead-home.com/News.php?memberlist=NewsResult&t=1951&url=DCMetroTheaterArts%20-%20Review:%20%E2%80%98George%20Clinton%20and%20Parliament%20Funkadelic%E2%80%99%20Funk%20Up%20the%20Howard%20Theatre.
• ^ “A Toast To The Boogie: Art in The Name of Funk(adelic) Call for Artworks,” DC Commission for Arts & Humanities, accessed June 3, 2024, https://dcarts.dc.gov/page/toast-boogie-art-name-funkadelic-call-artworks.

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D.C. exhibit celebrates P-Funk’s artistic legacy in Chocolate City

“A Toast to the Boogie: Art in the Name of Funk(adelic)” includes original artworks and archival materials that will be on display until Aug 16.

Washington had already been known as “Chocolate City” for a few years when Parliament made it official with its 1975 album of the same name.

The sci-fi-inspired funk band and its sister outfit, the psychedelic rock group Funkadelic, were in the midst of a decade-long run of classic albums that would change the course of popular music when its mothership touched down in D.C. Amid a constellation of chocolate cities that included Newark; Gary, Ind.; Los Angeles and Atlanta, D.C. was not just the capital of the United States but the capital of a movement.

“A chocolate city is no dream,” bandleader George Clinton said on the album’s title track. “It’s my piece of the rock and I dig you, CC.”

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Nearly 50 years on, the city is cementing its mutual appreciation with “A Toast to the Boogie: Art in the Name of Funk(adelic),” a collection of original artworks and archival material that celebrates the persistent impact on art and culture — especially in D.C. — of Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic.

“Chocolate City has always shown the family and the band love,” said curator Michelle May-Curry. “It just felt like the right place to begin to explore this family’s collection.”

And the prime minister of funk himself showed up to mark the occasion.

“A Toast to the Boogie,” on display now through Aug. 16 at the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ I Street Gallery, brings together two threads: the Clinton Collection, composed of never-before-seen photographs, memorabilia and artifacts shared by the wider Clinton family, and a juried exhibit that includes works from 20 visual artists that demonstrate the continued legacy of P-Funk’s visual language.

“I really wanted to display the variations and the versatility that the artwork had throughout the years,” said Zavier Croft, the exhibition’s co-curator and Clinton’s grandson. “It wasn’t only pictures, illustrations and photographs. … I really wanted it to be a whole visual aspect.”

Along with Croft’s collection of album sleeves and the original “Cosmic Slop” test pressing, the Clinton Collection includes candid backstage and family photographs and issues of the band’s proto-zine New Funk Times that bring the outsize P-Funk universe down to earth. The juried exhibition also includes concert photography by Tom Terrell, a ubiquitous figure in D.C.’s music scene in the 1970s and ’80s who also wrote liner notes for a reissue of “Chocolate City.”

“He really loved Funkadelic, he loved George Clinton. He loved the style, and he liked bringing new music and new groups to people — that was his calling card,” Bevadine Z. Terrell said of her brother, who died in 2007.

Some of the exhibition’s strongest inclusions are pieces that show how the band’s aesthetic has influenced artists over the years, such as a section that brings together the art of two D.C. natives: P-Funk album artist Ronald “Stozo” Edwards and outsider artist Mingering Mike, who created his own fictional musical universe that has been collected by the Smithsonian.

“One of the things we wanted to do with this exhibition is show how many artists were explicitly in conversation with the album artwork and the P-Funk universe, but then also used the aesthetic of the album artwork to make their own work,” said May-Curry.

And while Clinton and P-Funk are perhaps best known for stages full of costumed musicians, psychedelic antics and timeless party-starters such as “Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)” and “Flash Light,” the collective also translated a tumultuous decade into rich musical metaphors, from the explicit (“America Eats Its Young”) to the poetic (“Maggot Brain”).

“You think about the crazy colors and drugs, but they were really politically focused and spoke about different issues that they experienced, that the world was experiencing,” Croft said. “You can listen and say, ‘Holy crap, we’re still going through this now.’”

The political aspect of the P-Funk experience is captured in several pieces in the exhibit, including Anna U Davis’ “On Top,” a striking black-and-white cutout of a Black woman, with afro and knee-high stilettos, chained to the Washington Monument, or Jet Carter’s “Motherboard,” which sees the Mothership hovering above the White House and go-go drummers set up outside the gates.

The Mothership — itself a featured item at the National Museum of African American History and Culture — looms large in the collection, representing P-Funk’s influence on what would become the Afrofuturism movement. Roderick Turner’s “SG20 (Solid Ground 20/20 Vision) Series” is a collection of shadow-box sculptures that imagine the funky creations of a scientist ambassador. Auguster Williams, showing art in a gallery for the first time, contributes “Aboard the Funkadelic Star Ship (FSS) Pedro Bell: Boogie in the Black Hole,” a mixed-media collage that imagines the mothership from above.

“A Toast to the Boogie” grew out of a relationship between Melvin Witten of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and Tonysha Nelson, Clinton’s granddaughter and a musician who works with her grandfather on- and offstage. Nelson says she is overwhelmed by the exhibit and the love that flows through the celebration of Parliament-Funkadelic.

“He’s my superhero, and I’m very proud to call him my grandfather,” Nelson said. “I’m happy that people see him as the hero that he is.”

Even at 82-years-old, Clinton is still funkier than most people can ever hope to be. On Tuesday, he showed up for a news conference and gallery tour wearing a bucket hat, a “Cosmic Slop” hockey jersey and multicolored sneakers. But he remained relatively quiet.

On Wednesday, swapping out the jersey for a pearlescent cloak and appearing during a panel discussion about protecting the arts, he was in fine form. Speaking for about 15 minutes, the living legend reeled off the abstract poetry of P-Funk lyrics, shared wisdom about contemporary music and delivered the swagger that has made him an icon for half a century.

Looking back at the beginnings of Parliament-Funkadelic, he recalled how, in the post-Motown era, “you could be as cool as you wanted to be.”

“D.C. — Chocolate City, CC,” Clinton said during the discussion, “To talk about this here is really fun, because this is where we actually got the nerve to do it.”

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