JJ Grey & MOFRO (formerly billed just as Mofro) is a soul/funk/R&B;/blues/southern rock band from Jacksonville, Florida composed of JJ Grey (vocals, electric piano, acoustic guitar and electric guitar, harmonica), Daryl Hance (electric guitar and slide guitar), Anthony Farrell (Hammond Organ), Anthony Cole (drums) and the "Hercules Horns" Dennis Marion (trumpet), Art Edmaiston (tenor saxophone) and Andrew Trube (bass guitar).
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JJ Grey & MOFRO (formerly billed just as Mofro) is a soul/funk/R&B;/blues/southern rock band from Jacksonville, Florida composed of JJ Grey (vocals, electric piano, acoustic guitar and electric guitar, harmonica), Daryl Hance (electric guitar and slide guitar), Anthony Farrell (Hammond Organ), Anthony Cole (drums) and the "Hercules Horns" Dennis Marion (trumpet), Art Edmaiston (tenor saxophone) and Andrew Trube (bass guitar).
They will be performing as a part of The Voodoo Experience held at City Park in New Orleans, Louisiana over Halloween weekend 2009.
In the early and mid-90s, Grey teamed up with guitarist Daryl Hance, a friend he knew from high school. They moonlighted on nights and weekends playing at clubs in the Jacksonville area under various band names and a mixed genre of rock and funk.
Mofro was founded in the late 1990s. Grey first coined the blend of rhythm and blues, soul and funky rock & roll as “Mofro Magic” in 1997, based on the continuous southern slang being...
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