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BFD Brass Tuesday w. The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys & The High-Hat Second Line
June 16 @ 7:00 pm
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The High-Hat is pleased to host The New Orleans Swamp Donkeys, who will be headlining at the Club following opening act, The High-Hat Second Line.
The Swamp Donkeys are an extremely versatile group of young musicians who play traditional jass, blues, vaudeville, original music, modern jazz adaptations, and many other jazz and New Orleans-derived styles. They have beginnings and educations in the authentic, New Orleans, grassroots music scene, playing local festivals and second lines, then transitions into world-class music education programs, playing in concerts all over the globe. Their sound is enormously accessible with their frontmen, the Louis Armstrong-sounding, soulful and sweet James Williams, and the audience-wooing, banjo-strumming, song-writing extraordinaire Sam Friend.
Formed recently in the fall of 2012, the band is coming off of an extremely successful year. After selling out the Blue Note NYC in February of 2014, the Donkeys released two brand new albums “Swamp Donkey” (all pre-1930s covers) and “Donkey Business” (all original material). They closed out the first weekend of New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. The group then gained international internet fame when their version of the Game of Thrones theme – performed at NYC’s B.B. King’s Blues Club – went viral, garnering close to a million views! They followed up this success with a European tour featuring performances at JazzAscona in Switzerland, Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain, the North Sea Jazz Festival in Netherlands, along with special appearances in France, Spain, and Monaco.
The Swamp Donkeys are:
James Williams: Trumpet & Vocals
Sam Friend: Banjo & Vocals
Wes “Quad” Anderson IV: Sousaphone/Tuba & Trombone
Haruka Kiuchi: Trombone
Josh “Jams” Marotta: Percussion
Connor Stewart: Clarinet & Saxaphone
The High-Hat Second Line is the Club’s very own house brass band, bringing you the music of New Orleans every Tuesday night.
The Second Line is:
Joe Goltz: Trombone
Ben Bell-Bern: Trumpet
Amir Gray: Tuba
Pete Nocito: Drums
The Second Line hits at 7pm. The Donkeys start at 9pm. $10 cover. No reservations.
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