Proclaimed the “hot purveyors of funk” by Miami New Times, this New Orleans-based band performs high-octane jams electrified by a mighty horn section.

• The 5-member band is led by trombone master “Big Sam” Williams (formerly of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band) who the San Francisco Chronicle hailed as “the top man on the slide trombone in the birthplace of jazz.”
• Big Sam’s Funky Nation has released 5 studio albums, including their newest release Funky Donkey (2012), which contains a dance remix of its title track.
• “Big Sam” Williams performed alongside U2 and Green Day for the re-opening of the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina in 2006.
• “Big Sam…and the boys have honed a simple formula: lay big bursts of trombone and trumpet over deep, dirty bass and super-tight drums brightened up with trebly guitar, and encourage the assembled to shake what their respective mothers have given them.”—Eric R. Danton, Hartford Courant