The revered Afro Punk festival rolled into Brooklyn again this year by the tens of thousands, with eclectic costumes, and a crowd with an irreverent sense of humor and a hearty appetite for black rock, punk and soul. Two of the best received bands out of an impressive line-up that included Alice Smith, Lianne LaHavas, The Internet, Shabazz Palaces, Meshell Ndegeocello and Tamar-Kali, were Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and Fishbone.

Sharon Jones, the diminutive former prison guard comes out of the tradition of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Tina Turner, Merry Clayton and Etta James. Her back-up band, the Daptones, who formerly backed Amy Winehouse, is enough to make you shout. Add Sharon Jones to the mix and you have a full-blown church raucous. And the congregation got the spirit on Saturday night to their tunes, “Get Up and Get Out,” which included the Isley Brothers’ “Shout,” and doo-wop riffs on “Making Up and Breaking Up” from Give the People What They Want. The crowd was reluctant to let her go, but she and the band came to a close after two encores with her LP title hit funk anthem, “100 Days, 100 Nights.”

For the Rest of the story...
http://www.soulhead.com/2014/08/26/soul-surprised-afro-punk-erickablount-deangelo-questlove/