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What The Funk

What it is! We’re a community of funksters that stretches across Northern California and beyond.  Come on in and get funky!

Funk music has a rich history of promoting cultural connection and creative expression as well as social consciousness and artistic integrity. Inspired to celebrate and explore this legacy, we founded a nonprofit called Down To Funk Fund in December, 2025 for the purpose of producing Down To Funk Festival.  Both are focused on nurturing the history, culture and community of feel-good-do-good funk music so those of us who love it have more places to call home.  Can you dig it?

The first annual Down To Funk Festival will debut August 14-16, 2026 at YMCA Camp Jones Gulch in La Honda, California.

Featured at this groovy adult-friendly summer camp gathering of funk-lovers will be:

  • Local, regional and national bands performing intermittently on two stages under a canopy of old redwood trees

  • Two blowout late night shows 

  • Ample space for camping

  • Communal meals in a festive dining hall

  • Plenty of peaceful spaces to chill

  • Brass marching band

  • Burlesque dancers

  • Drag brunch on Sunday morning

  • Available upgrades (e.g. cabins with bunkbeds and bathrooms and preferred parking)

More details are to follow soon. In the meantime here are a range of ways to join us as a founding funkster. Please take a moment to look around and share what interests you most. One of our funksters will get back to you within 24 hours! 

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“Funk the fear, live your life”
— Esperanza Spalding