Organ maestro Kris Yunker brings his air-tight trio back to Marigold Brattleboro, delivering deep grooves and slippery-smooth, soulful funk with cats Ben Bloom (guitar), and Jon Fisher (drums)
🪩Marigold Brattleboro
📅 Thursday, July 2nd
📍 157 Main Street – Brattleboro, VT
🍸 Bar & Kitchen open 5PM
🎶 Show 7:30PM
🎟️ FREE
KRIS YUNKER is a funk/soul Hammond organist who, since 2002, has been making himself a name in the music scene with his cosmically rhythmic keys and heavy-hitting left-handed bass lines. In addition to his own project Yunker Funker, he’s also in the rotation of such acts as Bearly Dead, All’s Eye, Alan Evans Trio, On The Spot Trio, Elise Testone, Drew Angus, Love Raptor, The 7 Day Weekend, and many more. He played and toured with Goose in 2017 just before recording his first solo album, Bicoastal Waves. Kris recently subbed for Soulive’s Neal Evans at Bowlive with George Porter, Jr.
When not on stage, he’s in the studio, having recently released his single “To Be Fair” with Karl Denson, Will Bernard, Mike Dillon, Alan Evans, and the BT/ALC horns on the Vintage League Records label. Lately, he’s also appeared on the albums of Alan Evans, Joe Marcinek, Sugar Business, Frank Sellman, Drew Angus, Greg Mattson, and Mike Oehmen.
JON FISHER “is a freelance drummer based in western Massachusetts and has been performing and teaching throughout the northeast for over 20 years. He is a member of the Green Street Trio (2019 NEPR arts and humanities award recipients) and has performed with a wide variety of artists, including Houston Person, Karrin Allyson, Grant Stewart, Mark Whitfield, and the late great Saxophonist, Charles Neville, to name a few.” – Bombyx
https://www.instagram.com/jonfisherdrums/
BEN BLOOM “is a talented Seattle guitarist with his hands in a number of funky bands, from the Polyrhythmics to Rippin Chicken to the Unsinkable Heavies…” – KEXP