POSTPONED TO MONDAY 10/17 DUE TO RAIN
MARCUS MEETS MALCOLM OPEN STREETS
Party with us on the streets of Harlem!
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.
Hellfighters 2 is a musical ensemble facilitated by Black Harlem-based artist-educator Elijah J. Thomas. Its mission is to pay homage to and expand upon the legacy and vision of Lieutenant James Reese Europe and the 369th Infantry Regiment "Harlem Hellfighters", whose creative innovations gave birth to the musical idiom generally known as "jazz" and imported Black American musical genres to the Western world. Jim Europe and the Harlem Hellfighters' masterful synthesis of Afro-Diasporic musical styles established an enduring framework of Afrofuturist-informed artistic direction for the advancement and progress of Black Peoples, and it is the goal of Hellfighters 2 to utilize the same genre-bending approach to the performance of Afro-Diasporic styles to raise the standard of lived experience for all people. From blues to reggae, soca to spirituals, jazz to R&B to Afrobeat -- Hellfighters 2 is determined to play it all and play it well!
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.
