Saturday, November 5, 2022
7 pm Doors // 8 pm Music
$25 Advance General Admission // $33 At The Door
All Ages
Ticket sales are final and non-refundable
A special night of New Orleans style brass & jazz!
Mama Digdown's Brass Band and the Southside Aces hit the stage for a night of classic New Orleans brass at the historic Parkway Theater in the heart of south Minneapolis.
For over two decades, Mama Digdown's Brass Band 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.
Southside Aces utilize the traditional jazz canon for its sweetness and spice, joy and sorrow, whatever the mood should call for.
Praise for Southside Aces most recent album, "Minneapolis Bump:”
" (they) have followed the inner logic of traditional jazz to create these works -- they are a transmutation of an older style into something that sounds similar (as in Menard almost identical to its origin material) but that is, nonetheless, new and different.
In New Orleans, the jazz tradition thrives off a wide array of styles. The Aces possess a diverse repertoire, with a roll call that includes the names of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, and Bix Beiderbecke. Plus Crescent City classics like Bourbon Street Parade, Just A Closer Walk With Thee, and St. James Infirmary. And of course the funky rhythms of brass band powerhouses like Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Palm Court Strut.