Get ready to flail about with joyous abandon at the 9th Annual Brasstastic Blowout
at the quintessential Brooklyn DIY wonderland known as Rubulad!
Banda Rim Bam Bum is a collective of 23 musicians from Chile inspired by traditional Andean, Latin-American carnaval, and Afro-Latino rhythms. Their original compositions feature indigenous rhythms and melodies (Morenada, Diablada, Tinku), Salsa, and Frevo fused with Funk, Ska and Rocksteady. Adapting popular and folkloric repertoire to wind and percussion, their rhythmic-musical mixture captures the essence and spirit of Carnaval.
Dancing Divas is an all-Queer party brass band from New York City. The Divas' dazzling blend of Pop, Disco and R&B instantly transforms wherever they play into a space for ecstatic joy, opening the runway for uninhibited movement, self-expression, and freedom. Founded in June 2022 and comprised of members of NYC's top brass bands, the Divas are here to make you dance!
Funkrust Brass Band is a 20-piece post-apocalyptic disco-punk brass band playing all original music with megaphone vocals, heavy tuba bass lines, thundering percussion and searing brass melodies. Their explosive live performances feature full band choreography, signature wasteland/glam uniforms and LED lighting effects. The band mixes post-punk, disco, EDM, metal, and funk with Balkan brass and New Orleans second line sounds, filtered through the medium of a massive street brass band with a punk rock sensibility.
The HONK Family Band (established in New York City in the summer of 2022) is a multi-dimensional community ensemble created to connect musicians, sound-makers, dancers and spectacle-doers across the city (and by extension, visiting artists from outside of New York City proper). First and foremost, the HFB is a space for everyone to take part in under a collective and guiding spirit of love for music and a desire to deepen bonds of friendship across cultural boundaries, regardless of musical background and any other core identifier. If this spirit is in place, the HFB will live and operate as it was designed: to support and uplift HONK! NYC’s work of highlighting and advancing global street band music in as many forms as possible, through “music-making, pageantry, audience participation, and education.”
Young Fellaz Brass Band is a lively second line styled brass band from New Orleans, LA. It began in 2005 originally with humble beginnings, only having 3 members walking around their neighborhood playing their instruments out of the love of music. Over the course of the next 6 years, the band would flourish to 8 members, along with overcoming many obstacles and setting many milestones for such a young group of musicians, such as recording 3 studio albums, numerous festivals in New Orleans, along with performing in many states across the United States, including the HONK! TX festival. The band’s style of music covers many genres, including traditional jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock and pop tunes.
Funkrust Brass Band dares you to get funky.