Craig Charles To Bring His Funk & Soul Show To Falmouth Week 2019

August 14th 2019 | Events Square, Falmouth

A man wearing headphones is playing music at a little south event

Craig Charles has been announced to play a live DJ set for Falmouth Sailing Week 2019 in the form of his hugely popular funk and soul shows. Craig Charles headlined The Great Estate festival in Scorrier last year and has been in huge demand across the UK festival scene in recent years. His weekly BBC Radio 2 & BBC Radio 6 Funk & Soul shows have a solid fan base.


The legendary actor, host and broadcaster Craig Charles is one of UK’s most beloved Funk and Soul DJ’s.


From Robot Wars to Red Dwarf, Craig has now grounded himself as a Funk & Soul icon after 10 years of broadcasting on BBC 6 Music with their primetime Saturday night show.

“When BBC 6 Music asked me to do a radio show I only had one condition, it has to be a funk & soul show otherwise I wasn’t interested”

And so the Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show was born, pioneering 6 Music radio show from its dawn in 2002.

Live every Saturday night with an assortment of classic gems and emerging artists, Craig has garnered global support as one of the UK’s foremost Funk and Soul commentators, DJ’s and promoters of new music. The show has become a European benchmark for artists who want to connect directly with their fans.

“Since its inception, I have been interested in all varieties of soul and funk music, without imposing any barriers and I am just as enthusiastic about fresh new talent as I am about the classic artists from the golden age of the 60s and 70s”

The list of guests that have been on The Funk And Soul Show speaks for itself; Gil-Scott Heron, James Brown, Roy Ayers, Cymande, Marlena Shaw, Paul Weller, Primal Scream, Terry Callier, Candi Staton, Marva Whitney, Hip Hop legends The Roots and the Jungle Brothers, as well as the leading players of the new school Kokolo, Cut Chemist, Sharon Jones, Osaka Monaurail, Amp Fiddler, Amy Winehouse, The New Mastersounds, Smoove and Turrell, Quantic, The Apples, The Grits, JTQ, and The Fusion Experience.


Mr Charles and his trunk of funk DJs every weekend throughout the UK – stopping regularly at Band on The Wall in Manchester for his monthly residency. A night of soul-hitting funk, ‘can you dig it’ attitude and dance-floor jivin’. The monthly stop off is currently one of the most anticipated nights in Manchester’s scene, with an array of guests from the funky depths such as Maceo Parker, The BlackByrds, Smoove & Turrell, New Mastersounds, The Perceptions, Speedometer, Lack of Afro and Funkshone.

Craig Charles has captivated crowds throughout the UK – the Maestro of funk has played at numerous festivals such as Love Box, Park Life, Festival no 6, Wychwood Festival, Common People, Mostly Jazz funk and soul festival to name but a few. Highlighting 2016, Craig recently played to over 10,000 people at the world famous Arcadia and Shangri-La stage in Glastonbury.

With a jammed packed year in the making, the funk and soul train keeps movin’ along without a stop in sight – in the words of the soulful don himself, ‘No Sleep till Bed time’.


More info: falmouthweek.co.uk

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