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April 24-26, 2026

Word of South

P-Funk

Danny Bedrosian featuring George Clinton and members of P-Funk Daniel Bedrosian has been the keyboardist for George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic for the past twenty-one years, making him the longest tenured keyboard player in the band’s history. He has been the band’s music director for several years as well. This has led Bedrosian to devise a […]

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Preston Lauterbach

Preston Lauterbach is author of the American music classic The Chitlin’ Circuit (2011) as well as two secret histories of Black culture, Beale Street Dynasty (2015) and Bluff City (2019). Preston has co-authored three memoirs with significant figures in Black music, including Brother Robert (2020) with the stepsister of bluesman Robert Johnson, Timekeeper (2021) with […]

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