Kool & The Gang bring Keepin' The Funk Alive Tour featuring Bootsy Collins and Morris Day & The Time with special guest MC Doug E Fresh to Freedom Hill Amphitheatre on Friday, August 5 at 7 p.m.

Tickets go on sale this Saturday, February 27 at 10 a.m. at Livenation.com, Palacenet.com, The Palace Ticket Store and all Ticketmaster locations. Tickets may be also charged by phone to American Express, Discover, Visa and MasterCard by calling 800.745.3000.

Kool & The Gang has sold over 70 million albums worldwide and influenced the music of three generations. Thanks to songs like “Celebration,” “Cherish,” “Jungle Boogie,” “Summer Madness” and “Open Sesame,” they’ve earned two Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, 25 Top Ten R&B hits, nine Top Ten Pop hits, and 31 gold and platinum albums. Kool & The Gang has performed continuously for the past 45 years, longer than any R&B group in history. Their bulletproof funk and tough, jazzy arrangements have also made them the most sampled band of all time.

The band re-entered the Billboard R&B chart with 2006’s “Steppin’ Into Love.” In 2006, Kool & The Gang received the NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) Chairman Award for lifetime achievement in record sales.

Kool & The Gang remains one of the most active touring bands, performing hundreds of shows every year. In 2012, they embarked on a U.S. national tour with legendary rock band, Van Halen.

Bootsy Collins is one of the all-time great funk and R&B bassists, Rising to prominence with James Brown in the early 1970s, and later with Parliament-Funkadelic, Collins's driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk. Collins was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the Parliament-Funkadelic in 1997.

Kool & The Gang's Keepin' The Funk Alive Tour featuring Bootsy Collins and Morris Day & The Time with special guest MC Doug E Fresh at Freedom Hill Amphitheatre is presented by McLaren Macomb, Michigan Lottery and Ford as part of the Fifth Third Bank Concert Series.