music clip of the day

New Orleans Music Festival/day 2 of 3

If spirit could be sold, New Orleans would be rich.

Rebirth Brass Band, live, New Orleans, 2009

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“Brass band musicians are a wild bunch. They’re hard to control. The street funk that the Rebirth [Brass Band] plays definitely isn’t traditional—it might be in thirty years time.”—Lajoie “Butch” Gomez (in Mick Burns, Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance [2006])