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As part of Lakeside’s Wooden Boat Show & Plein Air Art Festival weekend, the Grammy Award-winning and New Orleans-based The Dirty Dozen Brass Band will take the Hoover Auditorium stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 19.Celebrating over 45 years, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band has taken the traditional foundation of brass band music and incorporated it into a blend of genres, including bebop jazz, funk and R&B/soul. This unique sound, described by the band as a “musical gumbo,” has allowed The Dirty Dozen to tour across five continents and more than 30 countries, record 12 studio albums and collaborate with a range of artists, including Modest Mouse, Widespread Panic and Norah Jones.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a world-famous music machine whose name is synonymous with genre-bending romps and high-octane performances.
In 1977, The Dirty Dozen Social Aid and Pleasure Club in New Orleans began showcasing a traditional Crescent City brass band. It was a joining of two proud, but antiquated traditions at the time: social aid and pleasure clubs dated back over a century to a time when Black southerners could rarely afford life insurance, and the clubs would provide proper funeral arrangements.
Brass bands, early predecessors of jazz as we know it, would often follow the funeral procession playing somber dirges, then once the family of the deceased was out of earshot, burst into jubilant dance tunes as casual onlookers danced in the streets. By the late 1970s, few of either existed.
The Dirty Dozen Social Aid and Pleasure Club decided to assemble this group as a house band, and over the course of these early gigs, the seven-member ensemble adopted the name: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
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115 West 3rd Street, Lakeside, Lakeside Marblehead, OH, USA, United States
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