Don’t miss the electric fusion of legendary Funk Jazz artists Average White Band and Ralph Butler Band at Givens Auditorium in Saint Louis. Get ready for an unforgettable night of music brought to you by Breakaway Entertainment and 88.7 WSIE The Sound.
Get ready for the highly anticipated concert to close out 2024. The awards winning Breakaway Entertainment and 88.7 WSIE The Sound presents, the legendary Funk Jazz sounds of Average White Band, which will feature St. Louis own Ralph Butler Band, Friday, December 13th, at Givens Auditorium in Saint Louis.
Click here for tickets when the event is officially announced. You may also get tickets at Vintage Vinyl, in the Delmar Loop. We hope to see you there, on the lovely campus of Harris Stowe State University.
The Average White Band (also known as AWB) are a Scottish funk and R&B band that had a series of soul and disco hits between 1974 and 1980. They are best known for their million-selling instrumental track “Pick Up the Pieces“, and their albums AWB and Cut the Cake. The band name was initially proposed by Bonnie Bramlett. They have influenced others, such as the Brand New Heavies, and been sampled by various musicians, including the Beastie Boys, Public Enemy, TLC, The Beatnuts, Too Short, Ice Cube, Eric B. & Rakim, Nas, A Tribe Called Quest, Christina Milian, and Arrested Development,[2] making them the 15th most sampled act in history. Wikipedia.
The frontman for the Ralph Butler Band was born in 1951, and grew up in Kinloch with three brothers and three sisters. He says their parents were instrumental in nurturing his interest in music. “Mother sang while she was in school and at church, and my dad sang around the house a lot,” he says. “They had great voices—that was my inheritance.”
Butler attended O’Fallon Tech for the first three years of high school and graduated from Beaumont. As a teenager, he worked to refine his craft, singing in the choir and as part of a group called The Quintelles, and playing percussion instruments like Conga drums and the tambourine. A break came during his senior year: Word had it that Jay Berry, whose band had a local teen following, was looking for a singer. Website.
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