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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Snake Ensemble celebrates Mardi Gras and the Yea
 r of the Snake -- Regattabar, Tuesday, February 12, 2013
DESCRIPTION:Revolutionary Snake Ensemble with Jerry Sabatini, Ken Fiel
 d, Tom Hall, Dave Harris, Phil Neighbors, Blake Newman and special gue
 st soloist Charles Neville. Tickets: $20.   Funk & street beat improvi
 sational brass band the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble will bring down t
 he house in a special Mardi Gras show held in the Regattabar. After 6 
 years traveling & playing on the Amtrak Crescent train to New Orleans 
 to march with the Krewe of Muses for their annual Mardi Gras parade, t
 he Boston-based Snakes celebrate this year’s Mardi Gras, as well as 
 the Chinese Year of the Snake, with a series of shows closer to home. 
 For their Cambridge show, the over-the-top band, featuring Jerry Sabat
 ini (trumpet), Ken Field (alto sax), Tom Hall (tenor sax), Dave Harris
  (trombone & tuba), Phil Neighbors (drums), and Blake Newman (bass), w
 ill be joined by Grammy winning saxophonist Charles Neville of Neville
  Brothers fame.  As part of their Northeast-based Mardi Gras tour, the
  Snakes will also be performing at the BAMcafé in Brooklyn on Februar
 y 9, joined by special guest drummer Kenny Wollesen.  Further backgrou
 nd on Charles Neville: Born in 1938 in New Orleans, Grammy award-winni
 ng saxophonist Charles Neville gained international acclaim as a membe
 r of the Neville Brothers band, the \"First Family of Funk.\" In addit
 ion, Neville has performed with James Brown, B.B. King, Bobby Bland, R
 ay Charles, Allen Toussaint, James Booker, Ernie K-Doe, Wilson Pickett
 , Big Joe Turner, and many more, and has led his own band, Diversity, 
 since 1991.  Further background on the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble (h
 ttp://www.RevolutionarySnakeEnsemble.org, http://www.facebook.com/Revo
 lutionarySnakeEnsemble): Formed in 1991 by saxophonist Ken Field and t
 rumpeter Scott Getchell, the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is a funk & 
 street beat improvisational brass band performing a unique blend of or
 iginal and traditional music. Leader Field is a longtime member of the
  acclaimed modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and an act
 ive composer and performer.  The group's most recent record, \"Forked 
 Tongue,\" spent 2 months on the CMJ North American jazz top 20 chart, 
 and appeared on best-of-year lists in the Village Voice & in Estonia, 
 plus in Georgia, Wisconsin, Kansas, Michigan, Massachusetts, Ohio, and
  NY. The recording features unique treatments of music by Field, Ornet
 te Coleman, Billy Idol, and others.  Notable Revolutionary Snake Ensem
 ble performances have included the Krewe of Muses Mardi Gras Parade (N
 ew Orleans), the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (DC), Tonic (N
 YC); the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Brooklyn Academy of Music (
 NY), the Puffin Cultural Forum (New Jersey), Berklee Performance Cente
 r (Boston), and many other venues. The Snakes have traveled by train s
 ix times from Boston to New Orleans, playing on board the Amtrak Cresc
 ent, to march with the Krewe of Muses in their annual Mardi Gras parad
 e.\n\nFor more information visit http://neighborsforneighbors.org/even
 ts/revolutionary-snake-ensemble-celebrates-mardi-gras-and-the-year
DTSTART:20130213T003000Z
DTEND:20130213T023000Z
CATEGORIES:jazz, concert, improvisational, funk, mardi, gras, celebrat
 ion
LOCATION:Regattabar at the Charles Hotel
WEBSITE:http://www.getshowtix.com/regattabar/index.shtml
URL:http://www.getshowtix.com/regattabar/index.shtml
CONTACT:617-395-7757
ORGANIZER:Regattabar at the Charles Hotel
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