“You could have the best rock and roll band playing on stage, and a brass band would come and turn the whole house out. Something about that energy that a brass band brings: we got music for your mind ...

The Rusty Crayfish Brass Band plays original New Orleans-style brass music. The Rusty Crayfish Brass Band is all about having fun and connecting with audiences through their New Orleans-style brass ...

On a Sunday in April, Cambridge Common reverberated with the discordant honks and trills of a brass band warming up. Musicians arrived at the park with instrument cases strapped to their backs and ...

The Grammy Award-winning Dirty Dozen Brass Band will perform at Fort Mose Historic State Park on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. The New Orleans-based band is known for its unique "musical gumbo" sound that ...

Over the past 18 months, Alejandro de los Rios, Jonathan Bachman and Michael Seaman have traced the history of New Orleans brass band music for their film “Brass Roots.” De los Rios and Bachman, both ...

Big Wy's Brass Band is an Austin, Texas-based group known for its mix of traditional New Orleans jazz and original funk music. The band found a welcoming audience in Shreveport, Louisiana, after ...

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The Week Ahead is back, a preview of all things Evanston and Chicago. This week features Fourth of July celebrations and parades, concerts and a festival. The Big Style Brass Band features ten members ...

There are three main things The Soul Rebels look for in new members. First, you need to be an excellent musician. Second, you have to gel with the other members since there will be stretches where you ...

In the New Orleans of yesteryear, some residents of the Big Easy enjoyed a vital community amenity, the tradition of the social aid and pleasure club. When a resident died, if their family could not ...

They’ve played at international festivals, in nightclubs and on a boat in the New York harbor. In one unusual gig, they played on the L train in Chicago. This local band has even been on the radio — ...

In the early 1990s, bass drummer Derrick Moss, snare drummer Lumar LeBlanc and other members of the Young Olympia Brass Band decided to split off to form a new brass band: The Soul Rebels. They wanted ...