Detroit’s Black Merda Bring Back Their Brand of Psychedelic Funk

The band talks about the reuniting for the first time since 2008

Black Merda

Photo credit: The Right Brothers

Detroit’s Black Merda are taking the stage for the first time in nearly ten years during this year’s Hamtramck Labor Day Festival. The band formed in the late 1960s in Detroit, recorded for Chess Records, and were once Edwin Starr’s backing band. They take the stage at 9 p.m. on Monday, September 5 in Hamtramck. 

 

 

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  • Amanda LeClaire is an award-winning journalist and producer of the CuriosiD podcast for 101.9 WDET-FM Detroit’s NPR station. She served as the host of WDET's now discontinued program CultureShift, was a founding producer of WDET’s flagship news talk show Detroit Today, and a former host/reporter for Arizona Public Media.