BANDA SINALOENSE DE LOS MUERTOS Nov 2nd nyc

[jacobg]

A few years ago while eating a taco I first heard the magnificent sound of brass band music from the Mexican state of Sinaloa. Immediately I bought a bunch of CDs and videos. Living on the edge of the Mexican part of sunset park, I was sure that I could find some of this music performed live, just like it is in Chicago and LA. I searched the colorful night club posters up and down fifth avenue. Although I understood no Spanish one thing was clear: none of the bands pictured had enough players to form a genuine acoustic Banda: 14! There is no banda in NYC!
So I called Oscar and we called a dozen of our closest friends and here we are:

BANDA SINALOENSE DE LOS MUERTOS

Featuring my arrangements of classic Banda tunes

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Jean Carla Rodea, Olivier Conan - vocals; Oscar Noriega, Chris Speed & Anthony Burr - clarinets; Jacob Garchik - Sousaphone, arrangements; Ben Perowski and Ches Smith - percussion; Curtis Hasselbring, Tim Vaughn, Ben Gerstein, Paul Olenick - trombones, Jacob Varmus, Kenny Warren, Shane Endsley, Eric Biondo - tpts

Sun, Nov 2nd
Barbes
8:30pm

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376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.) Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 347 422 0248

BANDA SINALOENSE DE LOS MUERTOS. In the Mexican state of Sinaloa, brass bands (bandas) are part of every public celebration. In the 1940's, 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. They started backing up singers such as the legendary José Alfredo Jiménez with whom they created classics known to every Mexican. In the 1990's, 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 Sinaloense de Los Muertos will be celebrating The Day of the Dead with a selection of classic tunes.