Funk, Rock and Blues guitarist from Southern California.

FunkCat Brown is an other-dimensional multi-instrumental singer-songwriter and producer currently based in San Diego, California. He was born as an alien-hybrid out of a top-secret government experiment during the late 60s and early 70s and therefore has a true Mothership Connection. It is believed that this is where he first got the funk in his DNA. His father is an accomplished jazz composer and bass player and his mother, a hippie, who both exposed him to a wide variety of music while he was growing up in Austin, TX. As a kid, he worked for Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a leading UFO expert, and that is where he learned that aliens do exist and that the mothership is real. He has quietly been sharpening his skills and has written over 300 songs and performed several times over the years and has a wide variety of influences. With all of his experience and ability to produce, write, play guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, and sing, the forthcoming debut album should prove to be very fun and funky.

Keyboard Wizard (of WOO)!!

Bernie Worrell first came to prominence as a founding member and Musical Director of Parliament/Funkadelic. While this massively influential supergroup was radically altering the course of music, Bernie was radically charting the course of emerging keyboard technology during the golden age of analog synthesis. Among the key ingredients in his sonic stew were perfect pitch and a well-honed facility with the classical canon. 

In 1997, Worrell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Parliament/Funkadelic (Talking Heads would follow five years later). That same year, he launched his own group, Bernie Worrell and the WOO Warriors, which has performed all over the US and abroad to rave reviews. The in-concert energy of this ensemble has twice been captured on live albums: Bernie Worrell and the WOO Warriors Live (1998) and True DAT (2002).

Worrell's work has also continued to surface in other places. In 1993, when David Letterman moved his program to CBS, Worrell helped launch the CBS Orchestra with Paul Shaffer. He co-wrote the score for the cult classic, Car 54, Where Are You? and other films, including the Ice Cube vehicle, Friday. In 2003, his music was featured in the NBC television mini-series, Kingpin.

The "Wizard of WOO" continues to wear many hats as effortlessly as he mixes musical forms, performing with both Mos Def's Black Jack Johnson band and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains.

2005 saw the release of Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth, a documentary film on the life of this master musician. And, between 2009 & 2010,  Worrell assembled his latest musical project, SociaLybrium.   SociaLybrium is comprised of Bernie on Keyboards, Melvin Gibbs on Bass, Ronny Drayton on Guitar and JT Lewis on drums…….a Rock/Funk/Jazz Fusion Feast!!!  To finish off 2010 with a bang, Bernie has just recently debuted another collaboration with guitar prodigy Wes Santo call WesN'Worrell.

Blackbyrd McKnight encompasses many styles of music to make up what he calls “Progressive Funk-Rock”.

Blackbyrd was grooved in the cradle by his father’s broad collection of jazz recordings as an infant, brainwashed by Jimi Hendrix in his teens, entered the University of Funk in his twenties, and has never stopped evolving and rocking people ever since. In the early stages of his career, Blackbyrd mainly worked with Jazz musicians, such as Charles Lloyd, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters, and more. He then redirected his path towards funk when he joined the P-Funk Camp in 1978 and has been funkin people up. He was the musical director of George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic from 1980 to 2008. Blackbyrd received Life Time Achievement Award at the GRAMMYs in 2019 with George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic. Other than working with P-Funk artists such as George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and Bernie Worrell, Blackbyrd has also worked with Miles Davis, Shuggie Otis, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ron Wood & Bernard Fowler of the Rolling Stones, Bill Laswell, HR of Bad Brains, Macy Gray, Fishbone, Melvin Gibbs  and Wyzard of Mothers Finest to name but a few.

Blackbyrd started his solo career in New York with Will Calhoun, Melvin Gibbs and Ronny Drayton at Knitting Factory in September 2007. In 2008, he co-founded the new supergroup “SociaLybrium” with world known keyboard player Bernie Worrell. The band toured in US and Europe, and created an album “For You, For Us, For All”.

Blackbyrd dropped his long awaited first solo album “’Bout Funkin’ Time” in November 2009. This album is packed with Blackbyrd’s musical talents not only as a guitarist but also as a songwriter, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

In addition to touring and recording with George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic, Blackbyrd is now appearing on stage with The Miles Electric Band, an all-star cast of musicians who have previously worked with Miles Davis, to carry the torch of Davis’ electric period to the next generations. You also might want to check occasional appearances with Shuggie Otis who is a big influence on Blackbyrd from his teens to present.

Blackbyrd spreads his wings and flies to anywhere his artistic inspiration calls.

The Boy are Back!!!  The Reggae-Soul Movement cannot be stopped, See-I will release their new album "Knowledge Shine Bright" on Tuesday May 27th, 2014.  Featuring guest vocals by Mr. Lif, Flex Mathews, Candice Mills and Edy Blu!!!!

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