Art and Culture Combine To Spread the Message of Diversity
Monday November 17, 2008
The Math Project founder and social justice activist Omo Moses, producer of the second film of the day, "Finding Our Folk," made a guest appearance
click here to read moreBlack Film Festival returns to Parrish Art Musem
Wednesday November 5, 2008
The East End Black Film Festival sponsored by the African-American Museum of the East End, the Parrish Art Museum and the Southampton Cultural and Civic Center will return to the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton for a third year on Saturday, November 8, with screenings beginning at 1 p.m.
Special guests producer Omo Moses and narrator Albert Sykes will be on hand for the screening of their film, “Finding Our Folk,” and light refreshments will be served, including ethnic food by Gloria’s of the Hamptons. A pass for the entire day of screenings is $5.
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Black Cultural Center brings New Orleans to Purdue
Sunday September 21, 2008
Bennie Pete and his bandmates were a long way from home Saturday. But the Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans was happy to bring their home to West Lafayette.
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Friday August 15, 2008
The Hot 8 Brass Band plays the kind of music that moves feet, body and soul. Founder of the group Benny Pete says it’s music that “makes you remember, makes you hold on, gives you hope and lets you heal.”
click here to read moreA Frozen Katrina
Thursday August 14, 2008
The country had a few days to prepare for Hurricane Katrina, and failed. It has more than three months to prepare for this frozen Katrina, and there will be no excuse this time…. A frozen Katrina will be measured in hypothermia cases and malnutrition or unfilled prescriptions if the poor are forced to spend grocery or medicine money on fuel.
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Friday August 1, 2008
Well, the eighth annual Deer Isle Jazz Festival, on a tiny island in Down East Maine, was an unqualified success -- a presentation of the beauty and intensity of New Orleans music within a larger context of its social and political implications.
click here to read moreMembers’ murders incite Hot 8 Brass Band to soldier on
Tuesday July 22, 2008
“We’ve always helped each other, always talked about what we would do if the worst happened to any of us,” Pete said. “Continuing on is a commitment we made when the guys died. They’d want us to keep on going."
Through the storms
Not even Hurricane Katrina or the murder of a member could keep the Hot 8 Brass Band from making music
Friday July 18, 2008
When the band - one of the most popular in New Orleans, behind a revitalized sound that connects traditional brass with funk and hip-hop - takes the stage in the Museum of Fine Arts' Calderwood Courtyard on Wednesday, the timbre of its horns and the rumble of its drums will bear witness to fresh struggle and pain.
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THE 8th ANNUAL DEER ISLE JAZZ FESTIVAL AT THE STONINGTON OPERA HOUSE
Sunday July 13, 2008
From New Orleans, saxophonist and Mardi Gras Indian chief Donald Harrison; the Hot 8 Brass Band; a second-line parade; movies; panels; jazz clinic; and more.
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New Orleans brass band plays a mix of rap, reggae and marching band beats
Wednesday July 2, 2008
"If jazz were a food, it would be like a jazz gumbo," said front man Bennie "Big Peter" Pete.
He was laughing from somewhere at a gig in Nebraska. He went on to call Hot 8's mix of rap, reggae and marching band beats "feel good music." The point here isn't perfection. It's bigger than that.