Mexican Banda (brass band) in NYC!

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BANDA SINALOENSE DE LOS MUERTOS Celebrates Cinco de Mayo

with Cumbiagra

Wednesday, May 5, 2010
8:00pm
Littlefield
622 Degraw between 3rd and 4th aves
http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank
Brooklyn, NY
$10
In the Mexican state of Sinaloa, brass bands (bandas) are part of every public celebration. In the '40s, the pioneering Banda El Recodo started mixing up traditional brass band tunes with contemporary Mexican music, mostly ranchera, and soon transformed the idiom into a powerful new popular genre. In the '90s, banda music experienced a renewal, especially among young Californian Mexicans many of whom have family roots in Sinaloa. Banda music's popularity exploded in Mexico as well and has become the new urban music of choice. Banda de Los Muertos will be celebrating cinco de mayo with a selection of classic tunes to get dead drunk to.

Oscar Noriega, Mike McGinnis, Alicia Lee - clarinets
Ben Holmes, John Carlson, Justin Mullens - trumpets
Brian Drye, Curtis Hasselbring, Max Seigel - trombones
Patrick Farrell, Rachel Drehmann - alto horns
Jacob Garchik, sousaphone, arrangements
Jim Black, Vinnie Sperrazza - percussion
Olivier Conan, Jean Carla Rodea - vocals