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George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, perform at Bluesfest in 2009. File photoPhoto by Jana Chytilova /The Ottawa Citizen
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The 2024 Ottawa Jazz Festival’s cool factor just doubled with the announcement that the late-June event has booked Parliament-Funkadelic as its last headliner.
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Known as P-Funk to its legion of fans, the seminal Afro-futuristic R ‘n’ B collective helmed by George Clinton will play the festival’s Confederation Park main stage on June 22 at 8:30 p.m.
P-Funk last played Ottawa 15 years ago, when the 2009 Ottawa Bluesfest presented the band on a stage in the ByWard Market.
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While P-Funk’s origins date back to the doo-wop group called the Parliaments that Clinton, now 82, formed in the late 1950s, the group became a funk and psychedelic rock trailblazer by the late 1960s.
As the collective’s output grew through the decades, it went on to influence hip-hop, electronica, gospel and soul music. The band received a lifetime achievement Grammy Award in 2019.
Clinton completes the roster of main-stage acts at the jazz festival, which runs from June 21 to 30. Among its previously announced bookings are Laufey (June 28), Norah Jones (June 29), Kathleen Edwards (June 25), the Preservation Hall Jazz Band (June 21), and Lake Street Dive (June 27).
For more information and tickets and passes, go to ottawajazz.com.
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