Fri, Jul 17
|Chapin Rainbow Stage
The Suffers
The Suffers are a Houston-based Gulf Coast Soul band known for their powerful blend of soul, R&B, funk, and rock, led by the dynamic vocals of Kam Franklin.
Time & Location
Jul 17, 2026, 8:00 PM
Chapin Rainbow Stage, 2 Prime Ave, Huntington, NY 11743, USA
About the event
THE SUFFERS
“How do we heal from this?” Kam Franklin asks on The Suffers’ explosive new album, It Starts With Love, It Ends With Love Part 1. “How do we heal?” It’s a loaded question without any clear answers, a painful reckoning with the open wounds of racial violence and trauma that continue to plague this nation as we lurch forward from one tragedy to the next, swearing things will change each time only to watch the same scenes play out over and over again. “They keep breaking us like we can’t feel,” Franklin continues. “We’ve all been shouting out since Emmett Till.”
“There’s a lot of anxiety that comes with being Black in America,” says Franklin, “with not feeling safe if you put on a hoodie or even just look at somebody the wrong way. I wrote that song with my friend John Michael in New Orleans,…