Fungkshui comes back to Burlington, two years on, at Foam Brewers

The Asbury Park psychedelic funk band hasn't played Burlington since a 2024 night at Nectar's. On Saturday, Nov. 14 it's back, in a 150-capacity room at Foam Brewers.

The last time Fungkshui played Burlington was Oct. 25, 2024, at Nectar's. Since then, two Vermont winters have come and gone without the New Jersey funk band coming back up I-89. That ends next weekend.

Fungkshui plays Foam Brewers on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 p.m. The show was announced Oct. 12, and the brewery lists free admission, with RSVP encouraged, at foambrewers.com. The room holds about 150 people, which is a big part of why this one is worth circling. A band built on long grooves and improvised turns plays differently with the crowd close enough to touch the monitors. A brewery taproom on a Saturday in mid-November, when everyone in town is looking for an excuse to stay out, is about as close as it gets.

Fungkshui comes out of Asbury Park, New Jersey, the shore town where every bar band is measured against the ghosts of the Stone Pony. The band bills itself as psychedelic funk, and that label fits the jam crowd it has been winning over. It's music that leans on pocket and patience, and the payoff comes when a vamp finally breaks open. The band has played rooms that matter on that circuit, including Garcia's at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, N.Y..

The Burlington date sits inside a busy run of Northeast nights. The night before, Friday, Nov. 13, the band is booked at the Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center in Maynard, Mass., with Sons of Levin, according to that show's ticket page. Next month it heads home to the Jersey Shore for what The Stone Pony bills as Fungkshui's first holiday show at the Pony, on Dec. 12 with Octave Cat. So Burlington gets the band on a working weekend, mid-tour and warmed up, not a one-off fly-in.

This time the band is at Foam, a brewery taproom, instead of Nectar's.

What to expect: no opener is listed, so plan on Fungkshui carrying the night. The listing gives an 8 p.m. start. With a room this small, RSVP early. Locals who caught the band at Nectar's two years ago will have told friends, and Burlington's jam crowd tends to turn out for a band it already knows.

For a town that takes its improvisational music seriously, a two-year gap is long enough to notice. The band comes back to a smaller, closer room, mid-run, on a Saturday. RSVP early, get there before eight, and get a pint in hand before the first long vamp starts.

Sources: Fungkshui at Foam Brewers (tickets) (foambrewers.com); Fungkshui at Foam Brewers — JamBase (jambase.com); Fungkshui — Garcia's at The Capitol Theatre (thecapitoltheatre.com); Fungkshui, Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center, Nov 13, 2026 — Opendate (app.opendate.io); The Stone Pony — December 2026 (stoneponyonline.com)