Brass Lassie plays Live! @ Lincoln Center Of The Block
Schedule
Sun Sep 08 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm
Location
829 Lincoln Ave, St Paul, MN 55105-3350, United States | Saint Paul, MN
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Celtic Music Big Band Style - Brass Lassie plays this wonderful St. Paul series, on the front lawn of 829 Lincoln Ave! Bring your own chair - the neighborhood gives up the street for these outdoor events. Free and open to all - donations very welcome! On this evening, we honor the local Scottish-American community which has supported Brass Lassie since its Scottish Fair debut in 2016. Come out and catch this great band before the outdoor season ends!Brass Lassie, a bold trad band based in the Twin Cities of St. Paul/Minneapolis, combines traditional tunes, songs and style with dazzling modern horn lines, sparking their own genre of eclectic, remarkable music. The ensemble performs extraordinary takes on Scottish, Irish and French music, traditional and new, featuring a powerful 4-piece horn section, a terrific rhythm section, fiddle, flutes, pipes and vocals. Their smart, joyous horn arrangements are by top-notch jazz arranger Peter Enblom, plus a couple of great ensemble arrangements from Dr. David Milne.
Brass Lassie's members have come together from a broad spectrum of sonic arts: traditional music, big bands, show bands, jazz, orchestral, roots & world music. Their rich repertoire includes traditional and new Irish reels, jigs and hornpipes, Scottish and French-Canadian tunes, ancient Irish airs, Cape Breton dance tunes and puirt à beul (mouth music), new arrangements of Scots Gaelic waulking songs, music from Brittany, Central France and Denmark, Scottish ballads with a big band spirit, and even Latin-infused Celtic dance tunes.
Featuring:
Laura MacKenzie - wooden flutes, whistles, concertina, pipes, vocals
Mary Vanory - fiddle
Pete Enblom - trombone, principal arranger
Dave Budimir - bass trombone
Sarah Schmalenberger - guest French horn
Beckett Shuholm - trumpet
Patrice Pakiz - piano
Michael Bissonnette - percussion
Gary Rue - bass
“This mini-orchestra grabs you by the ears and won't let go. It could be the biggest thing to happen to North American Celtic music, ever!”; "Groundbreaking” - Phil Nusbaum, KBEM/Jazz88
"Joyful and sophisticated" - Dáithí Sproule, Altan
"Their extraordinary takes on Cape Breton dance tunes, Celtic jigs and reels, traditional ballads and waulking songs are not so much genre-crossing as genre-smashing. Swinging like there was no tomorrow, with jazz-inspired brass arrangements, Latin-flavoured Scottish dance tunes and a big band sound, their music is bold, joyous, highly infectious and probably unique" --fROOTS (U.K.)
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Where is it happening?
829 Lincoln Ave, St Paul, MN 55105-3350, United States, 829 Lincoln Ave, St Paul, MN 55105-3350, United States,Saint Paul, MinnesotaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
