Organ virtuoso plays a funky free show
By Chandler Kidd He’s got the funk!
A Brooklyn native will
bring the good news of
funky tunes to Prospect Park next
week. Cory Henry and his band the
Funk Apostles will open for Tank
and the Bangas at the Bric Celebrate
Brooklyn! Festival on June 20, with
Henry singing and playing a churchstyle
organ. The musician said he
got his start tickling the keys when
he was just a toddler, listening in
on his mother’s choir rehearsal at
Unity Temple in Bedford-Stuyvesant,
he said.
“I happened to mimic some of the
notes that the choir was singing on the
piano. I started playing when I was
three and began playing in the church
when I was four,” Henry said.
Henry got his start with gospel
music, but his music pulls from jazz,
R&B, soul, and rock to create a musical
style he calls “future funk.” His
early exposure to gospel records had
a powerful influence on the themes in
his current music, said the artist.
“The main message behind my
music is based on love and fun. When
I used to play in church, I learned a
lot from the gospel records that I was
listening to. I began to make my own
music that was separate from what
I was listening to,” Henry said. “I
now get to talk about things like love,
which the world needs.”
The organ virtuoso previously
played with the Brooklyn band Snarky
Puppy, an instrumental jazz-pop
orchestra that won a pair of Grammys
in 2017. He broke with the group in
2018 to form Cory Henry and the
Funk Apostles, and he has since discovered
a whole new role and set of
responsibilities, he said.
“I am doing so many things that
I wasn’t doing in Snarky Puppy.
Number one being I am the singer and
front man for the Funk Apostles now,”
Henry said. “Being a front man has
been a huge learning experience.”
In addition to his duties as front
man, Henry keeps busy with a host of
different projects, including writing
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songs for a solo album, working with
the organ trio New Revival Project,
and recording a new album with the
Funk Apostles that will be released
this summer.
“My biggest challenge at the
moment is putting myself on a deadline
and getting these three separate
projects finished,” Henry said.
Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles
open for Tank and the Bangas at
Prospect Park Band Shell (enter at
Ninth Street and Prospect Park West
in Park Slope, www.bricartsmedia.
org/cb). June 20 at 7:30 p.m. Free.
PBy Chandler Kidd ublic health care does exist in
Brooklyn, and these doctors
want you to know about it!
The latest episode of Medcast Plus,
a locally produced medical television
show, aims to inform Brooklynites
about their right to access public health
care from Kings County Hospital.
The episode, which will air on June
15 on Free Speech TV, focuses on how
New York City doctors care for patients
who are uninsured.
During the 30-minute episode, host
Dr. Jack Braha and Dr. Steven Pulitzer
tackle some common misconceptions
about citizens who do not have the
luxury of insurance — namely, that
they have no options.
Pulitzer, who is the Chief Medical
Officer of Kings County Hospital,
described the services that the Prospect-
Lefferts Gardens medical provider
offers free to those without insurance.
“What Pulitzer and his team are
doing is providing in-patient and outpatient
care to those who have a high
deductible, or have to pay out-of-pocket,”
Braha said.
According to Braha, Kings County
provides innovative preventative care
to those who normally could not afford
it. For example, patients can go to
Kings County to attend a diabetics
class, which informs patients how to
eat healthier and take measures to
improve their lives; along with other
programs to prevent hospitalization.
“I learned from this conversation
that Kings County, especially Dr.
Pulitzer, is shifting their focus for
preventative outpatient care, such as
social services and mental health,”
Braha said.
The Medcast Plus episode also has
a message for the large population of
Brooklynites who are under-insured, or
who stay at home when they really need
to seek out professional health care.
“I hope those who watch the episode
understand that even if you are
uninsured or undocumented, public
hospitals are picking up where national
health care is lacking,” Braha said.
“The main point is, those who are staying
home out of fear of not being able
to afford care should go to city hospitals,
because they will help you out.”
“Medcast Plus” airs on Brooklyn
Free Speech Channel 3 (Channel
79 on Spectrum, 9415 on Dish, 348
on Direct TV, www.bricartsmedia.
org/tv-shows-videos/brooklyn-freespeech
tv). June 15 at 12:30 a.m., 8:30
a.m., and 2 p.m. Free.
Playing bridge: It was a packed house to watch the Men’s World Cup
in Dumbo last year. This year’s crowd, for the Women’s World Cup
final on July 7, should be just as large.
By Rose Adams Let the games begin!
The Women’s
World Cup kicked
off last week, but the fun
is just getting started.
Throughout the month-long
tournament in France, the
24 best women’s soccer
teams will go head-to-head,
battling for a spot in the
final match on July 7. If you
are cheering for the United
States — as all patriotic
Americans are — you are in
luck! Our superstar line-up,
led by Alex Morgan, has
already been steamrolling
the competition, destroying
the Thailand team 13-0 in
their first match of the competition.
Because of the time difference,
live matches screen
here in the Borough of
Kings at either 9 a.m., noon,
or 3 p.m. We have found few
spots where you can settle
in to watch those games.
Black Forest fans
The owners of German
restaurant and beer hall
Black Forest Brooklyn,
Ayana and Tobias Holler,
are big football fans, so they
will screen all of the games
featuring the German or
the United States teams at
both Black Forest locations,
in Cobble Hill and in Fort
Greene. Once the knockout
stage begins on June 22,
each spot will screen every
match on large, high-definition
televisions.
Black Forest Brooklyn
Fort Greene 733 Fulton St.
between S. Elliot Place and
S. Portland Avenue in Fort
Greene, (718) 935–0300,
blackforestbrooklyn.com.
Black Forest Brooklyn
Smith Street 181 Smith St.
between Warren and Wyckoff
streets in Cobble Hill, (718)
522–1806.
Bridge bash
If you want to watch the
game while out-of-doors,
head to Dumbo to catch the
World Cup games under the
Manhattan Bridge archway.
You can lounge on a patch
of fake grass in front of
the 80-inch screen, where
matches will screen every
weekday through June 29.
For the final match on July
7, a row of vendors from
the Brooklyn Flea, including
Stand Coffee, Dough
Donuts, and Chinese street
food servers Jianbing Co.,
will sell food and drinks.
And if the United States
plays in the Semi-Final
matches on July 2 or 3 —
which they probably will —
they will also screen under
the bridge.
Archway under the
Manhattan Bridge 80 Pearl
St. between Water and Front
streets in Dumbo, (718) 237–
8700, www.dumbo.is.
W’burg World Cup
Banter Bar, the true
home of Brooklyn’s soccer
fans, will go all out for
the World Cup, screening
every game on its many
television sets with full
sound. If soccer feels more
like a religion than a sport
to you, this saloon is the
place to go!
Banter 132 Havemeyer
St. at S. First Street in
Williamsburg, (718) 599–
5200, www.banterbrooklyn.
com.
Celebration time! Cory Henry and the Funk Apostles will perform at the Bric Celebrate
Brooklyn! fest on June 20.
Double docs: Dr. Braha and Dr. Pulitzer discuss
free health care options for Brooklyn
residents, in an episode airing on Free
Speech TV on June 15 . Greg Romenski
Game on!
ORGAN-IC MUSIC
Call it care free
Where to watch the
Women’s World Cup
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