Hot 8 Brass Band - Can't Nobody Get Down (Official Video)

Hot 8 Brass Band - Can't Nobody Get Down

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Second line Sunday: Ladies of Unity Parade featuring The Hot 8 Brass Band

“For those who can’t make it to the second line parade this weekend, sit back and enjoy this trip backatown...”

The Hot 8 Brass Band is pushing traditional New Orleans music into the twenty-first century. Hip hop and funk musicians who happen to play horns and marching drums, they write original songs and keep up with the latest fashions but they come out of a tradition that dates back over a century.

The New Orleans brass band originated on the streets, with deep ties to the jazz funeral, a musical burial procession that begins with slow hymns and ends with everyone dancing to uptempo music. That jubilation carries over into weekly parades known as “second lines,” when clubs parade through their backatown neighbourhoods to the beat of the brass band. You can feel this excitement in the video for “Can’t Nobody Get Down”, which follows the members of the Ladies of Unity Social Aid & Pleasure Club on their annual parade. Winding past BBQ vendors and roving “car bars,” the ladies do their buckjump and highstep moves while men hold back the excited crowd with ropes.

Propelling the dancing and good times is the Hot 8, those funky rhythms from the “back row” of tuba and marching drums and the over-the-top harmonies of the trumpets, trombones, and saxophone in the “front line.” These are the instruments of yesterday but the Hot 8 is the sound of today’s New Orleans streets. They march off the streets and onto the nightclub stages and festival grounds where fans from all over the world get a taste of their homebrewed mix. For those who can’t make it to the second line parade this weekend, sit back and enjoy this trip backatown.

(written by Matt Sakakeeny)

The band would like to give huge thanks to all the secondliners – without them this video wouldn’t have happened.

Video credits:
Director/Camera Op:Vashni Korin
Camera Op: Calvin Blue Jr.
Camera Op: Sophie Borazanian
Camera Op: Gino Kalkanoglu
PA: Ahmed Arasah

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