BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:204385@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260826T073443Z DTSTART:20260910T190000Z DTEND:20260910T233000Z SUMMARY:George Porter\\, Jr. &\\; Runnin’\\; Pardners with Tinfis h DESCRIPTION:Legendary founder of The Meters George Porter\\, Jr. brings h is band to The Garden Club on Thursday\\, September 10th.\\nABOUT GEORGE PORTER JR &\\; RUNNIN’ PARDNERS\\nProlific New Orleans bassist Georg e Porter Jr.\\, released a brand new instrumental album entitled Porter s Pocket with his longstanding quartet the Runnin’ Pardners available now via Color Red. Porter Jr is joined by his longtime collaborator keybo ardist Michael Lemmler (Jubilation\\, TriFunctA)\\, drummer Terrence Hous ton (The Funky Meters\\, Toubab Krewe)\\, and newest member Chris Adkins (Raphael Saadiq\\, Mark Broussard) on guitar.\\nPorter was a founding mem ber of The Meters and a lifelong session musician\\, notably acting as Al len Toussaint’s go-to bass player throughout the 60s and 70s. Declared by Pitchfork as “one of the greatest bass players who has ever lived\\, ” and consistently finding himself atop Bass Player Magazine and Rollin g Stone’s “Top 50 bassists of all-time”\\, Porter was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 for his influential work with New Orleans funk progenitors The Meters.\\n“Tito’s Dumpling Machine\ \,” has all the qualities that rare-groove vinyl crate diggers have alw ays looked for from Porter. Drum breaks galore\\, a syncopated New Orlean s pocket and a funky Hammond organ lead will more than scratch the old-sc hool Meters itch. Porter Jr. allows his Runnin’ Pardners band to really drive the track while George does what he does best: holding down the rh ythm.\\nThe song starts with a drum groove straight out of Uptown New Orl eans circa 1970\\, which would appear an odd choice for the lead single o ff a record but as Porter puts it\\, “my attitude has always been that the drummer defines where the song goes and so I really enjoy letting a d rummer set up the tune.” Along with leading his own band and collaborat ing with superstars such as Robert Palmer\\, Patti Labelle\\, Tori Amos\\ , and members of Grateful Dead amongst others\\, Porter’s career could also be tracked by a lineage of great drummers that he has played with in cluding the Meters’ Zigaboo Modeliste\\, Russell Batiste Jr.\\, and mos t recently\\, Terrence Houston.\\nAn innovator of funky music\\, Porter g ives credit to his hometown\\, “Before there was ‘funk’ as people c all it\\, New Orleans musicians always had a way of using rhythm in a way nobody else was. I am just a student of Earl King and George French and that musical school and somewhere along the way\\, people out there decid ed it was ‘funk.’\\nPorter Jr &\\; Runnin’ Pardners continue to perform a weekly residency in New Orleans at the renown local favorite Ma ple Leaf Bar in addition to an incessant touring regimen across the count ry at tastemaker venues and festivals. Last winter\\, the band was hand s elected to open a 2 night run supporting The Black Crowes at The Capital Theatre in Portchester NY.\\nFor more information and a complete list of George Porter Jr. tour dates\\, merch and more visit georgeporterjr.com.\ \nTinfish:\\nGrown from the fertile musical soil of the dirty south. Tinf ish is an instrumental quartet blending elements of vintage soul\\, funk and blues with danceable rhythms and down-home melodies. Formed by Delta Moon guitarist Mark Johnson\\, Tinfish pays homage to groups like Booker T and the M.G.s\\, Link Wray\\, and the Meters\\, while looking forward t o the likes of modern instrumental wizards Khruangbin and Hermanos Guitar rez. Slide guitar and swirling organ mesh together over funky drums and b ass for a hearty musical stew that’\\;s hard to deny. Johnson is joi ned by Atlanta talent Chris Case on Keys/Organ\\, Celeste Smith on bass a nd David Kaiser on drums.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-stat es/atlanta/events/george-porter-jr-amp-runnin-8217-pardners-with-tinfish- 2026-09-10 LOCATION:artsatl.org URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/atlanta/events/george-porter-jr-amp-runnin-8217-pardners-with-tinfish-2026-09-10 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR