3/4/23 Dirty Dozen Brass Band to Perform at Thrasher
4 March 2023 News
Green Lake, Wis. – The Dirty Dozen Brass Band will debut on the Thrasher Opera House stage in Green Lake, Wisconsin, on Saturday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. New Orleans-based Dirty Dozen Brass Band has incorporated the traditional foundation of brass band music 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 from Modest Mouse to Widespread Panic to Norah Jones. Forty-plus years later, 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 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 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, often followed the funeral procession playing somber dirges. Then, once the deceased’s family was out of earshot, they burst into jubilant dance tunes as casual onlookers danced in the streets. By the late ’70s, few of either existed. The Dirty Dozen, Social and Pleasure Club, decided to assemble this group as a house band. Over these early gigs, the seven-member ensemble adopted the venue’s name: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. The group recently won a Best American Roots Performance Grammy for their collaboration with Aaron Neville on the song “Stompin’ Ground”
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s performance is sponsored by the Diedrich Agency, a Vizance Co. This event is supported in part by a grant from the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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