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Fake Flowers Real Dirt Funk Band from Baltimore, MD

Will travel up to 100 miles

  • Member Since 2014
  • Starting at $1,200 per event

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In the steamy basement of an otherwise unremarkable house in Baltimore, "Fake Flowers Real Dirt" forges their mix of genres from the funk/dope characteristic (e.g. funk, hip-hop): driving skank reggae moves to frenetic breakbeat/jungle, joined together with a series of quick jazz changes. Simple melodic lines and hooks give way to solos, with space. FFRD's efforts began when singer Billy D William marshaled the forces of an accomplished group of veterans from the DMV music scene. Their goal is nothing less than sonic nirvana - obtained through the melding of diverse musical traditions into a form greater than the sum of its parts (a form deserving a new name (and wikipedia page)). Atop the groundwork carefully, yet ruthlessly laid down by drummer Brian "Trickster" Williams and bassist / sound-man extraordinaire Ethan Montgomery, Billy D William sings skyward with gospel soul, singer Viki Nova adds delicious harmonies while increasing the band's class considerably, Dave Enyck invites listeners into his world with cerebral chord voicings and sound, turntablist GERM mashes and scratches (real) vinyl, Gene Chapman and Cullen Waller play searing and soaring horn lines - close your eyes and imagine Cannonball.... while Chris Zebal goes from classic hammond to buzzy west-coast style synth and wah filters. Brian Escavage provides percussion and extra drive to the deep rhythms - the icing on an already dope cake! The group embraces the style nouveau while never forgetting the trivial inequality: 10 seasoned players, still on their way 'round the block. FFRD transcends superlatives; their awesomeness is matched only by their modesty. From the basement in a house in Baltimore, MD to your ears, "The flyest and the most, as real as non-fiction."

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  • Thought You Knew | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • On the One | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • Break Em Off | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • No Good | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • 3 Straight Days | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • Together Now | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • Bullets Thru the Fire | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • Puffin Smoke | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • That's All | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • Hammer Down | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • Back to the Sun | Fake Flowers Real Dirt
  • Back in the Day | Erykah Badu
  • No Diggity | Blackstreet
  • Thriller | Michael Jackson
  • Thrift Shop | Macklemore/Wanz
  • Get Lucky | Daft Punk/Pharrell
  • Peg | Steely Dan
  • Chameleon | Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters
  • Feelin Good | Nina Simmone
  • No Woman No Cry | Bob Marley
  • The Chicken | Jaco Pastorius
  • I Put a Spell on you | Screamin'm Jay Hawkins
  • What is Going on? | Marvin Gaye
  • Use Me | Bill Withers
  • Sunny | Jamiroquai
  • Lean on Me | Bill Withers
  • 21 Questions | Nate Dogg & 50 Cent
  • Wish You Were Here | Pink Floyd
  • Steppin Stone | G Love & Special Sauce
  • Lively Up Yourself | Bob Marley
  • Stealing Happy Hours | 311
  • Summer Time | Sublime
  • Get Away | Katchafire
  • 3 Little Birds | Bob Marley
  • Crazy Fool | Sublime
  • I Need Love | LL Cool J
  • You Don't Know How it Feels | Tom Petty

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Past Events

November 6, 2015 • The Metropolitan Kitchen & Lounge
Fri9:00 PM - 1:00 AM Annapolis, MD

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