Formed in 2004, Oakland-based Blue Bone Express has been exposing the San Francisco Bay Area to a type of jazz rarely heard beyond the Mississippi Delta. It is a jazz that is music to party by: the traditional sounds of Mardi Gras, New Orleans funerals, and barrelhouse brothels.
Blue Bone Express strives to reveal the spark that created jazz in its beginnings, rooted in the music of New Orleans, by way of Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Louisiana swamplands. Whether parading in the street, or setting the mood for burlesque performers, the configuration of tuba, brass, drums, and piano excites ongoers to dance with wild abandon.
Through a healthy mix of originals and gems of both distant and recent past, Blue Bone Express proves to jumpstart any party.
If Blue Bone Express is playing, then the party has most definitely started!
Hi from Indianola, MS, home of BB King and the new $16M BB King Blues Museum! BB King Homecoming is Friday, June 5th and it's going to be a very special one. BB has recently purchased the famous Club Ebony (where Keb Mo' showed up for the Sunday Evening Jam last week!) and will be playing there after his Concert in the Park. It is incredible to see the King of the Blues work at such close range.
Check out our page and come see us when you visit.
This is your official invitation to the Cradle of the Blues!
Hi Blue bone express! SoundSafe loves you! Please make a local music profile page for yourself on soundsafe. org SoundSafe is a 501c3 non-profit working to preserve, strengthen, promote, and unite the Bay Area music community. Upload songs to our radio station, promote your shows, network, and take advantage of our educational resources for the music business. http://soundsafe. org/profiles/new See you there and Long Live Bay Area Music!
Come see Blue Bone Express rock the the Hornucopia Festival on September 13th with Rube Waddell and Polkacide @ Cafe Du Nord!
Taking place September 4th – 14th at multiple Bay Area venues, The Hornucopia Festival will feature over 30+ mostly local, totally eclectic bands with strong horn and brass elements in mind blowing soul-shaking concerts playing everything from Gypsy Brass to Afrobeat, Marching Bands to Cartoon Bands, rounding up Jazz Cats, Soul Stirrers and Salseros alike, with Punk rock Polka, New Orleans Brass, Apocalyptic Hoboluvin Lo-Fi and more thrown in for good measure. Plus a DIY parade! Without a doubt, this is the horniest festival anywhere.
If you want the info right now, here is the rocking full festival lineup; September 4 – 14! The Realistic Orchestra • Frank London's SF Klezmer Brass Allstars • The Yard Dogs Road Show • Shotgun Wedding Quintet • Aphrodesia • Extra Action Marching Band • Brass Menazeri • Rube Waddell • Iron + the Albatross • Todd Sickafoose • Marcus Shelby • Orgone • Mitch Marcus Quintet • Lord Loves A Working Man • Polkacide • The Bayonics • Manicato • Sara Wilson's Brass Tonic • The Monophonics • Kapakahi • Edmund Welles • Kugelplex • Dan Cantrell's Megaband • The Japonize Elephants • The Brass Mafia • Gaucho • Tin Cup Serenade • Blue Bone Express • Franco Nero • The Amulettes • Du Uy Quintet • Gommorran Social Aid + Pleasure Club • Zoyres • Brass Liberation Orchestra • The Cottontails • The Nice Guy Trio • Spaceheater • Hot Pocket • The Wylde Bunch
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