R&B funk and soul eight-piece band, Joy and Madness is bringing the spunk to Sierra Nevada’s Big Room. The 7:30 p.m. performance on Aug. 26 will be the Sacramento-based band’s first time at the Big ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade’s end, ...