Doors at 5:30 pm / Show at 6:00 pm
Tickets are $15 Advance / $18 Day of Show
PRIDE & JOY
The name says it all. During its many years of phenomenal success, Pride & Joy has remained the most popular party band on the Bay Area music scene. This group is the Pride of the Bay Area and a Joy to anyone who loves to dance. They have achieved this by presenting the most timeless pop/soul music of our time in an electrifying high-style show that pulls the audience directly into the heart of their performance.
This band can play anywhere from the most popular clubs on the circuit to wedding receptions, the top society parties and corporate events; everybody, everywhere, instantly relates to the music.
“Its always been natural for us to reach out and draw in the audience. We make the people feel they’re part of the performance because they are,” says Pride and Joy founder and bandleader Coleman Burke. “That’s what Pride and Joy has always been about...creating a great feeling in the room. That’s as important a part of our show as the work we put into our look, choreography and arrangements.”
As evidence of Pride and Joy’s across-the-board staying power, the band regularly sells out engagements at San Francisco’s premier nightclub Bimbo’s 365 Club , The Little Fox Theatre in Redwood City and The Mystic Theatre in Petaluma. In addition, they have played venues in Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Baltimore, Dallas, Denver, Houston, and engagements throughout California.
What The Critics Have Said About
PRIDE & JOY
"One of the cliches about the Bay Area music scene is that the region is so rich in live music that you can walk almost anytime into any small club and have a reasonable shot at seeing a truly first class act. It would be difficult to imagine better proof of that maxim than Pride and Joy, without a doubt one of the most potent and polished acts this writer has ever encountered purely by accident. The four vocalists exchange lead chores like a relay team passing a baton and each seems continually to top the others as the sets unfold. All of Pride and Joy's tunes were re-created with equal passion and electricity in conjuring up an audio picture of the 60's era."
- Billboard -
"Pride and Joy is a very hot number. Their performances sizzle. The club was packed to the rafters and the band responded to the continuous shouted requests and roaring encouragement with aplomb. The vocals were always slick and often astonishing. Pride and Joy recreates the ensemble sounds of the Motown era with all four superb and suitably spirited singers swapping vocal chores. Do go listen, dance and reminisce. It's great fun."
- Phil Elwood, San Francisco Examiner
"Pride and Joy produces the best dance music around. What a joy to dance to pridefully...a pop-rock group to be savored. YEAH!"
- Herb Caen San Francisco Chronicle
"The crowd was dancing themselves into a frenzy. This is a band dedicated to perpetuating vintage rhythm and blues. Pride and Joy plays the most partyin' music ever recorded. The band is as likable a living jukebox as you'll ever come across. All the right buttons are pushed to assure a wild time on the dance floor. The band's music is turning yet another generation into dancin' fools."
- Michael Snyder, San Francisco Chronicle-
"They can make an otherwise staid audience bop 'til they drop. This is a band with fiery enthusiasm that had the crowd howling in ecstasy. The singers are consummate performers who would eclipse just about anybody with their great voices, sweet harmonies, matching flashy outfits, slick dance moves and distinctive personalities."
- BAM Magazine -
"The band has become something of a phenomenon. There is plenty to look at...a handsome front line whose vocal work is faultless, and plenty to listen to as well."
- Ben Fong-Torres, San Francisco Chronicle
"WOW."
- Pat Steger, San Francisco Chronicle
