Welcome to the Soul Train. Sadly, no Soul Train dancers but a serious amount of fabulous Soul, Motown, R&B and Funk. If you like any of the above genres, then it will most definitely be worth checking us out.

Each month, we will share our love of all things Soul, Motown, R&B and Funk, including great music and good conversation. We will start by selecting an album to listen to and discuss, then as the months tick by, we will open it up to members' choices, which will really be fun to hear all your favourites and for the whole group to enjoy.

The first few months to get us going as follows. We will start with the gorgeous album from Toni Braxton: Secrets. This album was 30 years old on the 18th of June just gone, and it’s the one which really sealed Toni’s place in R&B history. Well worth a visit.

Month Two will be a look at the albums of Sade, six in total, so far. So far, being the appropriate name of her full six-album record collection box set. It really is a work of Art and with ongoing talk of her returning and releasing more. This really could be a winner.

In Month three, we will look at the series Motown Chartbusters, released in the 70’s. It was Volume 3, which sealed the deal for me with Motown and is a great album featuring the Temptations. Marvin Gaye. Stevie Wonder Marther Reeves, and the Supremes, to name just a few.

We will meet for 1 ½ hours of first-class music. As James Brown once said, “were gonna have a funky good time”.