The Stooges Brass Band Brings A Taste of New Orleans to Overton Square
Back in 2011, the Stooges Brass Band were one of the more active street brass bands in New Orleans, with a regular residency at the …
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TBC Brass Band Brings The Seventh Ward Funk Rolling Downtown With Revolution SA & PC
Perhaps no New Orleans experience is more enjoyable yet exotic as the Sunday afternoon parades called second-lines. Inspired by the bass-drum, cowbell and tuba-driven grooves …
Kicking Off Mardi-Gras Day With The Jefferson City Buzzards and TBC Brass Band
It was my first Mardi Gras morning in New Orleans ever, but it was hardly the stuff of dreams. It was grey, dreary and overcast, …
From Zion City to 2nd & Dryades: The Lady Jetsetters Uptown with the Stooges Brass Band
Last year, the Lady Jetsetters second-line had started in the new apartments that replaced the Calliope projects, but this year the starting point was a …
TBC Brass Band At A Party In Gentilly @TBC_BrassBand
The TBC Brass Band had two gigs on the Sunday night after Thanksgiving, but fortunately, there was enough time between the first one and the …
Parading Uptown with the Lady Buckjumpers and the Stooges and Rebirth Brass Bands
In New Orleans, “buckjumping” is another name for second-lining (in Memphis, it refers to “gangsta walking”), but the term “buckjump” seems to have masculine connotations, …
The Men of Class Second-Line with Da Truth Brass Band Uptown in New Orleans
On the Sunday after Grambling homecoming, I drove down from Monroe to New Orleans for a second-line sponsored by a social aid and pleasure club …
Jamal Batiste Live at Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club @CuttingEdgeNOLA @SljcNola
While the Cutting Edge NOLA hip-hop showcase was going on at Cafe Istanbul, a music industry mixer and showcase was also going on a few …
From Treme to the Quarter with the Satchmo SummerFest Second-Line
When the jazz mass at St. Augustine’s Church finally ended, the Treme Brass Band came marching out of the church, and the second-line, which had …
Treme On The Morning Of A Parade
Each year on a Sunday, usually in August, the Satchmo SummerFest sponsors a second-line that runs from the St. Augustine’s Church in the Treme neighborhood to the Old U.S. Mint in the French Quarter, featuring Indian tribes, brass bands, the Baby Dolls and various social aid & pleasure clubs.