A dispute over money for a funk and soul show ended last week with a traveling musician jailed in Roanoke.

Darryl Nathaniel Jenkins, 49, who uses the stage name Darryl Ray, was charged early Friday morning with robbery by violence after an incident at Martin’s Downtown Bar & Grill. A bartender at Martin’s Downtown, said that Darryl Ray placed a steak knife against his throat just after midnight Friday and demanded $400 for the band’s performance.

By that time, the club was willing to pay only $200 for the show. The club’s owner said that he had a word-of-mouth agreement with Jenkins to pay him $100 per band member — or $400 for four musicians. But singer/saxophonist Jenkins brought only a guitarist, plus electronic equipment to cover the bass and drum parts.

“I told him he showed up with half a band, and so he was only going to get half the money,” the bartender said Tuesday.

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