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Article: Big, Easy Change // Connick Tries New Orleans Funk Style
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- September 1, 1994
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Harry Connick Jr. 8 p.m. Saturday
World Music Theatre,
Ridgeland Avenue and Flossmoor Road, Tinley Park
$25 and $27.50
(312) 559-1212
Harry Connick Jr. is confident his fans have been sufficiently
warned not to expect his usual crooning when he performs Saturday at
the World. And he shrugs off concerns that the New Orleans funk
he'll be performing with his new five-man group, Funky Dunky, won't
go over as well with his ardent followers as the big-band standards
that hooked them.
"Well, maybe we'll lose some of them," he said, reconsidering.
"But we'll be playing that stuff (the standards) again. I'm only 26.
I've only scratched the surface of that style."
In any case, the ...