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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, JUNE 16, 2019
CONCERT
MEASLES
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, rock,
R&B, and soul to create a
musical style he calls “future
funk.” His early exposure
to gospel records had
a powerful infl uence 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 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 fi nished,”
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.
open, according to the city
agency.
The educational facility
between Penn and
Rutledge streets was also
slapped with violations
for not having an adequate
staff-to-student ratio
and for not providing
the department with vaccination
and attendance
records within a deadline
given by offi cials.
The health honcho’s order
requires anyone above
the age of six months living,
working, or going
to school in certain Williamsburg
postal codes to
get vaccinated with the
measles-mumps-rubella
vaccine (MMR).
Offi cials have to date
confi rmed 588 cases of the
highly-contagious malady
across the fi ve boroughs
since the outbreak began
last October, three quarters
of which occurred in
the northern Brooklyn
nabe.
The city started issuing
summonses to people
last week, sending them
to 173 people across the
city so far, with 68 of those
having been cancelled after
the violators presented
proof that they’ve been
vaccinated, according to
the department.
Those who continue to
defy the city’s orders face
a fi rst-time fi ne of $1,000,
which doubles if they keep
ignoring the summonses.
The number of infected
New Yorkers does
show signs of declining,
according to Barbot, but
she urged the public to
continue to work with her
department to stem the epidemic.
“School staff, parents,
and health care providers
need to continue playing
their role in bringing
this outbreak to an end,”
said Barbot. “We’ve seen
our weekly case counts
decline, but the reality
is, this outbreak is not
over, and the Health Department
will continue to
use all the resources and
strategies available to us.
We urge anyone who can
get vaccinated to do so.”
Measles is a highly contagious
airborne pathogen
that produces symptoms
including fever, cough,
and a runny nose, and can
cause diarrhea, ear infection,
pneumonia, encephalitis,
and death — with
about one of every 1,367
kids infected dying due to
fatal complications from
measles.
Symptoms can appear
anytime from seven to 21
days following exposure,
according to the Health
Department.
CELEBRATION TIME!: Cory
Henry and the Funk Apostles
will perform at the Bric Celebrate
Brooklyn! fest on June
20.
SPREADING THE MESSAGE:
City offi cials have tried to
inform the public about the
dangers of the highly contagious
illness through various
outreach methods, including
this nearby LinkNYC kiosk on
Kent Avenue.
Photo by Kevin Duggan
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