Groove to the Sound of ’70s Funk Tonight
Tavares plays in City Hall Plaza concert
Treat yourself to an August evening spent listening to a legendary band that will get you on your feet and dancing the night away. Tonight, the R & B, funk, and soul music group Tavares will take the stage at City Hall Plaza, part of the annual Dorothy Curran Wednesday Night Concert Series.
For 44 years the city of Boston has hosted the annual outdoor music festival, named in honor of Curran, a longtime public servant who worked for Boston’s Parks and Recreation Department and championed events for women and special needs children throughout her 43-year career. Curran died in 1992. The series includes four concerts each summer.
Tonight’s performance is by Tavares, a band best known for a string of R & B, funk, and soul hits during the 1970s and 1980s. The band scored its first R & B top-10 hit with “Check it Out” in 1973, followed by hit singles like “Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel” and “It Only Takes a Minute,” which quickly established its reputation. The group is best known (and earned a Grammy) for a cover of the Bee Gees’ “More Than a Woman,” featured on the successful Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1979. Originally comprising five brothers of Cape Verdean American ancestry from Providence, R.I., four perform today.
The concert series continues on August 10 with a Disco Night featuring Stardust, a popular band known for covers of ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s dance music. The series will close out the season with a performance by Philadelphia soul band Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes, best known for launching the career of R & B legend Teddy Pendergrass, on August 24.
Tavares performs tonight at 7 p.m. at City Hall Plaza, City Hall Square, Boston. Admission is free. Take any MBTA Green Line trolley to Government Center. Find more information here, on the Boston Parks and Recreation Facebook page, or by calling 617-635-4505.
Connor Lenahan can be reached at lenahan@bu.edu.
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