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Best Artist / Band To Dance To

Gold Winner The Mellotones Silver Winner Roxy and the Underground Soul Sound Bronze Winner Asia & NuGruv The Mellotones have moved around a lot—hopping between three regular venues this year; they’ve just set up camp Thursdays on The Marquee stage and the band’s many fans always find it. “The community supports us—we don’t have to […]

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Two decades of funk

On December 23 The Mellotones will celebrate their 20th anniversary. The eight-piece unit fuses soul, funk and R&B with an always-changing setlist. “The 20th-anniversary show stems from when Tony Smith was the leader of the band,” says lead singer and saxophonist Jeffery Mosher. “In the early days, we used to do a Christmas show at […]

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