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Big Sam's Funky Nation with Afrofreque In New Orleans, a city indisputably overflowing with funk, the high honor for Best Funk Group of 2008 was recently awarded to Big Sam's Funky Nation at the Big Easy Music Awards. For the past few years, Big Sam's Funky Nation has been a driving force of urban funk. The band is led by trombone powerhouse, Big Sam Williams, formerly the trombonist for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who the San Francisco Chronicle calls "the top man on the slide trombone in the birthplace of jazz." Presiding over his Funky Nation is Big Sam, a big man with an impeccable urban fashion sense, who blows the funk out of his trombone and refuses to... [Read more]