BRATTLEBORO — The Stone Church, 210 Main St., presents a “Vermont Carnival Breakdown” with the Celebration Brass Band and VT Shakedown on Friday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m.
The night of cajun brass and Afro-beat funk will include some cajun-themed food specials.
VT Shakedown plays funk and Afro-beat, with a tight rhythm section interacting with ripping horn solos, polyrhythms interwoven with vocals, hypnotic bass and guitar lines, and funked-up drums.
Celebration Brass Band emerged in 2009 under the leadership of New Orleans native and current Langdon, N.H., resident Peter Simoneaux, as a means of developing a community of musicians dedicated to the study of traditional and contemporary New Orleans-style brass band music.
This is the music of jazz funerals and street parades in New Orleans and the style that birthed the careers of Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, and Sidney Bechet, whose lineage continues in the driving rhythms of groups like the Dirty Dozen, the Rebirth Brass Band, the New Birth, Treme, and countless others.
Tickets are $12 and $17 and are available at www.brownpapertickets.com.