The Booty Band is back on its home floor at Asheville Music Hall

Two decades into its run, Asheville's flagship funk band plays the downtown room next Friday with Hustle Souls opening.

Some bands get a hometown welcome. Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band gets a hometown dance floor, and next Friday it's at Asheville Music Hall. The show is Friday, November 13, with doors at 8 p.m. and music at 9 p.m. Hustle Souls open. Tickets are through eTix, and the venue's listing marks it 21 and up.

Few acts are more tied to this town's funk scene than the Booty Band. According to Explore Asheville, the band was conceived in Boone and moved to Asheville in 2006. Since then it has built a cult following on what the same profile calls wildly entertaining, over-the-top stage antics. Asheville is where it plays most: 39 shows in our records, more than any other market.

This fall is a milestone stretch. On its own site the band listed a 24th anniversary show at the Visulite Theatre in September, after summer dates around the Southeast. So this Music Hall night falls in the band's 25th year. That's a long run for any group, let alone one whose whole premise is that every show should feel like a party that got out of hand.

There's no new album announced. The most recent studio record remains *Funk Life*, which the band recorded at Echo Mountain Studios right here in Asheville, as Grateful Web noted. It's still the reference point for the band's sound: funk rooted in the traditional style, built to be played loud in a room with a sticky floor, which is the Music Hall's whole business.

The Booty Band doesn't play a hometown show so much as throw one.

Asheville Music Hall, at about 360 capacity, is the right size for this. It's big enough that the band can go all out, and small enough that the front row and the back bar are dancing to the same thing. A 9 p.m. start in a downtown room means you can do dinner first and still be there for the opening set, which is worth doing.

If you've lived here long enough, you've probably seen the Booty Band somewhere: a bar that was too small for them. If you just moved here, this is the show that explains a lot about the city's taste in funk. Wear shoes you can dance in, show up for doors, and expect to leave sweaty.

Sources: Asheville Music Hall (ashevillemusichall.com); eTix: Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band w/ Hustle Souls at Asheville Music Hall (etix.com); Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band (official site) (bootyband.com); Explore Asheville: Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band (exploreasheville.com); Grateful Web: Yo Mama's Big Fat Booty Band fall/winter tour and new album (gratefulweb.com); JamBase show listing (jambase.com)