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Fresh from their exciting debut at New Orleans Afrikan Film and Arts Fest in 2010, followed by a unique performance at New Orleans Museum of Art February, 2011, Africa Brass Band is honored to perform at French Quarter Festival on Sunday April 10, 2011 at 12:30 pm at the Latin/World Music stage located at the Old US Mint (Barracks, next to the French Market).

Africa Brass will also perform:

Friday, April 8th, 8pm, at Donnas, 800 N. Rampart

Sunday, April 10th, 2:30 pm, at Mojitos, 437 Esplanade (corner of Frenchmen) 


From West Africa to New Orleans, Brass Bands have a long history from which to draw inspiration.Led by Thierno Dioubate (Guinea, drums) and Tim Green (New Orleans, sax), AfricaBrass features the finest musicians from Africa and New Orleans, setting a new direction for brass band music. Our eclectic repertoire includes traditional music from West Africa and New Orleans, and pieces by Coltrane, Mardi Gras Indians, Neville Brothers, set to the intense rhythms of West Africa. The original idea for Africa Brass took place during a coffee house meeting between Senegalese filmaker Jo Ramaka, and African percussionist Jeff Klein. Mr. Ramaka spoke of how brass bandsin Senegal would use animal horns and drums to create a brass band. Mr. Klein was inspired, and Africa Brass was on its way to becoming a reality.

Morikeba Kouyate of Senegal and Kora Konnection with Tim Green and PapaFrog

Lamba by Kora Konnection

Eileen Julien

Co-President
Professor & Chair, Comparative Literature
Indiana University, Bloomington

Joseph Gaï Ramaka

Co-President and Festival Director
Independent Screenwriter & Filmmaker

Join us for the Mississippi River 9th Ward Film and Arts Festival, October 6-9, 2011!

On Friday September 16 at the New Orleans African American Museum, we will offer a Festival Sneak Preview, featuring Mississippi Damned (2009) with Director Tina Mabry.  Admission is free, seating is limited.  Reserve a place at: noafest@neworleansafrikanfilmfest.org or 504-942-8542.

October 6, the Festival opens at the Galvez Restaurant & Atrium with a Gala honoring Harold Battiste, Jr, recipient of the second Toni Cade Bambara Award for Cultural Leadership.  Come hear Jesse McBride Presents the Next Generation and a Battiste composition arranged by Dr. Jean Montes for Molto, a funky chamber orchestra! And for a little lagniappe: "Prelude by the River" at 6pm.

October 7-9, we will screen films on youth, women, the violence they endure and often overcome: Draw Yourself! (France, 2010); Shirley Adams: Portrait of a Mother (South Africa, 2009); Africa United (UK, 2010); Murder on a Sunday Morning (France/U.S., 2001); Central Station (Brazil, 1999); Black Venus (France/Tunisia, 2010), with live music by Charmaine Neville, Fredy Omar con su banda, and the Caesar Brothers Funk Box preceding evening screenings.  And we will host two roundtables: “Black Men and the Justice System” and “Race and Power in New Orleans in Global Perspective.”

Gala Tickets are $75 each or $135 for two.  Tickets available online or by check.

Festival screenings are $5 each.  A Festival Pass for all screenings may be purchased for $20, online or by check.

Make checks payable to NOAFEST, 2670 George Nick Connor Dr., NOLA 70119.
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