BRATTLEBORO — Join the Estey Organ Museum in welcoming the Buzzards Brass Band to First Baptist Church on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 7:30 p.m. for a fun and lively Carnival Concert.
The Buzzards Brass Band is the official performing moniker of the New Orleans Brass Band Project, a collaborative music workshop based in Brattleboro.
There is a $15 suggested donation at the door to support the work of the Estey Organ Museum (www.esteyorganmuseum.org).
The New Orleans Brass Band Project was founded in early 2009 by New Orleans native Peter Simoneaux for the purpose of cultivating a community of musicians interested in performing traditional and contemporary New Orleans-style Brass Band music.
This is the music of jazz funerals and street parades in New Orleans, the style that gave birth to the careers of Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, and Sidney Bechet, and whose lineage continues to this day in the funky, driven, street rhythms of the Dirty Dozen, Rebirth, New Birth, and Treme brass bands.
Brattleboro area audiences know the Buzzards through their performances at numerous gallery walks, the Strolling of the Heifers, Fourth of July parades, and a host of other local community events.
New Orleans brass band music has exploded in popularity for the past quarter century, and is the dominant musical form in its namesake city, where it is embraced and performed by young and old alike.
Members of Buzzards Brass Band are Peter Simoneaux, founder and percussion; Stephen Voorhees, percussion; Jeanushka Fishell, percussion; Tim Ellis, sousaphone; Scott Sizer, trumpet; Chuck Ober, trombone; Frank Sansone, baritone sax; Jon Mack and Ron Kelley, alto saxophones; Jim Kurty, clarinet; auxiliary members Dan DeWalt, trombone; Mike McKinney, trumpet; Bill Shontz, clarinet and saxophone; and Walter Slowinski, saxophone.
This concert features Ned Phoenix on electric violin, and Jon Matthew Worrall on the huge Estey pipe organ.