Check out this video of The Cool warming up The Grey Eagle stage
for West Coast hip-hop icon and G-Funk pioneer, Warren G ! The house was packed and funk was brought!
April B. & The Cool
a soulful concoction of funk, jazz, hip-hop & RnB
"There’s no way to pigeonhole Asheville’s April B. & The Cool. What I heard pouring off the Taproom Stage crossed genres that include R&B, hip hop, soul, jazz, reggae and rock. It’s alternative everything. Led by multi-instrumentalist April Bennett and a rotating stable of talented area musicians including guitarist JP Miller and trombonist Derrick Johnson, both from Asheville’s Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, bassist John Durham [LOZ] and drummer Joshua “Forte” Joyner; April B. & The Cool had us dancing to jazz, a heady genre normally reserved for older hipsters sipping vodka tonics in cramped dark clubs. Didn’t think that was possible, but April’s stunning, sensuous voice and expert guitar licks gave us no other choice."
- Dalia Jakubauskas, Musicfestnews.com