Con Funk Shun News

Michael Cooper enjoyed quick success as a solo vocalist after the demise of Con Funk Shun.

Pain, center, performs at the 9th Annual BET Awards on Sunday, June 28, 2009, in Los Angeles.

It'll be a busy Saturday night in South Philadelphia with Doylestown girl Pink and suave neo-soul man Maxwell across the parking lot from one another at the Spectrum and the Wachovia Center.

Although dance-pop singer Pebbles scored several hit singles on her own during the '80s, she has become best-known as the manager of one of the genre's biggest hit machines the following decade.

Saxophonist Boney James is among the popular and proficient performers in the smooth jazz world.

The sound of Motown is coming to Mobile for BayFest. As we told you first on News 5 This Morning, The Commodores will perform at next month's music festival in downtown.

BayFest organizers planned to announce today that they have bolstered the festival's lineup of classic R&B with a trio of acts topped by the Commodores.

When it comes to performing in the Bay Area this summer, Con Funk Shun hit the jackpot.

Expect to feel funk-deficient at summer's end? George Clinton and friends will have the remedy.

The Alameda County Fair's 2009 slogan is "Come out and Play," and visitors have lived up to that credo.

We say goodbye to May this weekend, and the Zoo Amphitheatre is the place to be for a couple of marquee concert events.

Jus Dreamina Entertainment presents a oeThe Legends of Funka featuring the SOS Band, the Bar-Kays and Con Funk Shun at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zoo Amphitheater, 2101 NE 50.