Mama Digdown’s Brass Band with the Akie Bermiss Trio & emcee Trish Cook
Saturday, January 15, 2022
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Show
$25 Advance General Admission // $33 At The Door
All Ages
Tickets sales are final & non-refundable
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A not-to-be-missed night of New Orleans-style jazz with Madison’s Mama Digdown’s Brass Band — one of the hottest and hardest hitting brass bands on the scene today — along with the funky Neo-soul sounds of the Akie Bermiss Trio, featuring the Brooklyn-based keyboardist, singer & composer for Lake Street Dive. Rounding out the night is comedian extraordinaire, Trish Cook!
Tickets to this show are going fast! We also want to let you know that in light of omicron concerns, we are capping attendance at 50% to ensure easier social-distancing in the already generously spaced seating at The Parkway. With the added limit on tickets, we encourage you to get your tickets while they are still available! This is going to be an amazing night of music that is not-to-be-missed!
For over two decades, Mama Digdown's has traveled the world spreading the gospel of New Orleans brass band music, earning their solid reputation as one of the hottest and hardest hitting brass bands on the scene today.
Their storied career has taken them to clubs, concert halls and festivals around the world. Conceived of closer to the headwaters than to the Mississippi Delta, Mama Digdown’s was born amidst the fertile decade of the New Orleans brass band revival of the early 1980s to the early 1990s - a decade that also produced the Rebirth Brass Band, Soul Rebels and the Hot 8 Brass Band. Respected around the world as one of the best purveyors of second line brass music, the band has released nine albums, and in 2018 and 2019 had the honor of being invited to perform in Congo Square for New Orleans Brass Fest.
Akie Bermiss lives in Brooklyn where he was raised in a musical household full of jazz and politics, fueled by his former-activist mom and dad. He began singing in church, moved it to school for a while, enroute becoming somewhat of a musical chameleon. His raucous, guttural and soulful vocals are a delectable fusion of Donny Hathaway and Tom Waits. He’s equally adept singing Neo-soul, funk, contemporary jazz, alternative rock, and hip hop.
Akie sings and plays keyboards with Lake Street Dive and contributed a number of compositions to the band's most recent album entitled, Obviously. Additionally, Akie is a member of the rich Neo-soul scene in Brooklyn, often performing with Aabaraki, the Screaming Headless Torsos, Miri Ben-Ari (the hip hop violinist) and rap sensation Soul Khan. In 2014, he released his first self-titled solo EP (via Rockwood Records). This marks the Akie Bermiss Trio’s first Parkway Theater show in Minneapolis!