NextThreeDays: Event Display

Funk -n- Disco Halloween
Venue: Dogtown Roadhouse, Floyd
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: DJ Boomerang
Date: Saturday, October 29, 2022
Time: 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Event Types: Music, Food, Drink Specials, Miscellaneous
Cost:
Advance Tickets: $15.00 Day of Tickets: $18.00

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Description:
Dogtown Roadhouse presents the Funk -n- Disco Halloween on Saturday, October 29, 2022.

Get funky with us this Halloween! Get dressed up funky disco style and let loose with one of the areas finest DJ’s in DJ Boomerang spinning all the funk party stuff, and the awesome MC Mika to lead the night!

We’re throwing in some extra fun stuff to top it off including:
• Costume Contest with Prizes
• Funky Disco Party Favors
• Selfie Photo Booth
• Light Art Installation
• Drink Specials
• Food Specials
• Parkway Brewery Tap Takeover

There’s a reason why Michael McNamara is known as DJ Boomerang, in his almost three decades as a DJ, his musical inspiration and his own trail of influence he’s left on others have spanned far and wide, but have always come back full circle to what’s really the source of his creative force: positive, conscious, and uplifting message music.

A mysterious, analog soul existing in what’s largely today a digital world, Boomerang still prefers to carry and spin crates of vinyl. While a legendary and influential figure to many, those that were there and know, without much out there in the form of online photos, mixes, or media, these words you are reading are some of the first to capture and put his story out there.

McNamara’s early influences were late ’80s punk rock and golden era hip-hop, groups like Public Enemy, Dead Kennedys, KRS1, and others, that spoke to social and political justice issues of the times, which in our cyclical nature constantly resurface today. Like many, McNamara’s curious spirit would lead him to look into the influences behind these groups: funk breaks, social justice poetry, jazz, and soul, digging a decade back into ’70s artists such as Gil Scott Heron and Brian Jackson, Sly & Family Stone, The Last Poets, Coltrane, Miles Davis, Donald Byrd, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Bob Marley and the Wailers, and so on. By the ’90s, the jazzy conscious hip-hop of Tribe, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, Arrested Development, Spearhead (Michael Franti) combined all of his early influences with an even stronger message of unity. For McNamara, the art form of dance became a liberating expression and a way to “work it out,” leaving societal pressures, stigmas, and barriers behind and offering experiences that serve as a safe space free from judgement and a reprieve from the grind.

Michael McNamara is a St. Pete legend. His Budious Xaximus days and Sunshine City Disco outfit and his extended DJ sets are infamous. Recently trading in the sunshine city for the star city, DJ boomerang continues to shine a light on feel good party music from his new home base of Roanoke, VA.

Links:

• https://openhouseconspiracy.com/artist/boomerang/
• https://www.facebook.com/sunshinecitydisco
• https://www.instagram.com/sunshinecitydisco/

Advance tickets are $15.00 and day of the show tickets are $18.00.

Advance tickets can be purchased in-person or online. To purchase online, visit: https://dogtownroadhouse.com/event/halloween2022/.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.postimg.cc/SKpZhKg0/image.png.

For more information, visit: https://dogtownroadhouse.com/event/halloween2022/ or https://www.facebook.com/DogtownRoadhouse or call 540-745-6836.