BIXOLOGY ::: L TRAIN BRASS BAND ::: BABADAN BANDA DE RUA ::: MELVIN GIBBS ::: LOOVE BRASS TRIO
Loove Labs Annex | 238 N 12th Street —> Loove Labs | 58 N 6th Street
$10 - $50 Sliding Scale (No One Turned Away for Lack of Funds)
Crossings is a meeting of the minds between HONK NYC + Loove Labs, in collaboration with musicians Melvin Gibbs & Arto Lindsay.
This event will criss cross between two Williamsburg locations, bringing the communal spirit of Loove Lab’s artist-run hub on North 6th Street to the Annex, their new space on North 12th.
Join us for an epic housewarming of music, procession, improvisation, & ritual that explores the African origins of the music of the Americas.
THE ANNEX - 238 N 12th Street
6:30pm - BIXology
7:30pm - Parade with L Train Brass Band to N 6th St
LOOVE LABS - 58 N 6th Stret
8pm - Babadan Banda de Rua
8:30pm - Melvin Gibbs: People Moving
9:30pm - LOOVE Brass Trio wth Josh Roseman, Steven Bernstein, Marcus Rojas
Power trio Marcus Rojas, Josh Roseman, and Steven Bernstein play the music of our time, forging a path between past, present, and future through brass.
Trombonist Josh Roseman was a co-founder of the acid-jazz dance band the Groove Collective in the 1990s and the legendary underground club night Giant Step.
A longtime member of Spanish Fly, tubist Marcus Rojas has performed and/or recorded with a wide range of musicians, including They Might Be Giants, John Zorn, Henry Threadgill, Sly & Robbie, and Foetus.
Steven Bernstein is a trumpeter, composer, arranger, & bandleader. A former member of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, he has immersed himself in such a wide array of music with his own bands — from Sexmob to Diaspora Soul to Spanish Fly — that he defies easy categorization.
Melvin Gibbs is a Grammy nominated composer, musician, artist, and writer, born, raised, and currently based in Brooklyn, N.Y. A prolific veteran of the New York music scene, he was part of the No Wave radical rock-funk-jazz band Defunkt in the 1980s and the Rollins Band in the 1990s. He has been called "the greatest bassist in the world" by Time Out New York magazine and was 2019 winner of JazzTimes Magazine's Critics Poll in the category Electric Bass.
BIXology is a project celebrating the music of Bix Beiderbecke, led by Skyler Hagner. Commissioned for the 2023 HONK NYC! Festival, BIXology performs original arrangements of Beiderbecke’s tunes and other early jazz favorites. Eschewing note for note recreations of the originals, Skyler Hagner's fresh orchestrations and arrangements inspire 21st century feet to jump and jive to his swinging takes on Beiderbecke's dynamic compositions. The tight ensemble work and hot solos will keep your toes tapping - come dance with us!!
Since 2018, Babadan Banda de Rua (Babadan Street Band) has been a vibrant presence in the alleys and streets, theaters, cultural spaces, and carnivals of the great Belo Horizonte area, in Brazil. Their mission is to create an afro-mineiro sound while emphasizing the need for aquilombamento (communitarian connection based on the historical model of Quilombos) and reconnecting with their ancestral roots.
L Train Brass Band is a modular collective of over 110 brass, reed, and percussion musicians who are genuinely excited by the opportunity to play anywhere and everywhere, covering a wide variety of music, from pop and hip-hop—to funk and traditional NOLA jazz—to eclectic original charts. They were featured on the Today Show & won Best Music Group at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in 2018 and 2019. A repeat artist at NYC’s Governor's Ball, they have performed at Preservation Hall and paraded through New Orleans.