"Soul Train" ended in 2006 after a 35-season run and since then, there have been no revivals of it or any other musical variety show of its kind. Lakeside and Con Funk Shun's concert proved that the ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (WNTZ) — The soulful rhythms of the 1970s are set to echo through downtown Alexandria as legendary R&B and funk band Con Funk Shun takes the stage at RiverFête on Friday, May 2, from 8 ...

With most of us still a bit hungover from yesterday’s Super Bowl festivities, it’s understandable that there hasn’t been that much Valentine’s Day celebration. After all, who’d want their brand-new, ...

Covers have existed since the creation of modern music, sometimes with the secondary artist achieving the same acclaim as the one who performed the original. Whether done for sheer attention, as many ...

The Early Years Con Funk Shun was formed in Vallejo, California by high-school classmates Louis A. McCall and Michael V. Cooper. With Louis on drums and percussion and Michael providing lead vocals ...

Michael Cooper received a call from his daughter on Valentine’s Day last year telling the co-founder of the R&B band Con Funk Shun to check out a video she had sent him. “I clicked on the link and the ...

Sometimes heartstrings can be broken, but that doesn’t stop Silk Sonic from tugging on them. Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are celebrating Valentine’s Day with a trip to the Eighties on their new ...

Young shakes hands with a student at Starting Gate before returning home to Sacramento. The bass player for 'Con Funk Shun' visited the Vallejo school Friday morning. (Rich Freedman--Times-Herald) ...