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Fine Arts Center
2/6/2009 8:00 PM at Hot 8 Brass Band
Bowker Auditorium, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002
Cost: $25, $15; Five College Students and Youth 17 and under $15
New Orleans’ Hot 8 Brass Band captures the rhythm and the pulse of the city’s magnificent celebratory street music. Hot 8 performs music of the honored Second Line tradition, infusing the funk and energy that make New Orleans music loved around the world. Longtime featured artists at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Hot 8 Brass Band was recently featured in the Spike Lee documentary, When the Levees Broke. Don’t miss this exciting musical odyssey into the timeless spirit and soul of "The Big Easy." Funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the American Masterpieces initiative, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies.
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