Hornucopia Festival

Description

"The Hornucopia Festival is a new festival featuring the best horn and brass driven bands in the Bay Area and beyond for two weeks of mind blowing, soul shaking shows, workshops and presentations. Taking place September 4th – 14th at 9 different Bay Area venues, The Hornucopia Festival is a celebration foremost of the uniquely dynamic and strong horn and brass community in San Francisco. The Festival also aims to explore the historic and contemporary power of horn and brass music to bring people together while exuberantly bridging genres, languages, borders and cultures. through educational workshops, a DIY parade, and over 30 eclectic bands, The Hornucopia Festival will feature music as diverse as Gypsy Brass to Afrobeat, Marching Bands to Cartoon Bands, Punk Rock Polka to New Orleans 2nd line, delighting hot and cool Jazz cats, klezmorim, soul stirrers and salseros alike in one brassy, horny celebration.


Leading the bill is Grammy award winning global brass legend, Frank London (The Klezmatics) debuting a SF collaboration, Frank London’s SF Klezmer Brass Allstars; local jazz giants, The Jazz Mafia with The Realistic Orchestra and The Shotgun Wedding Quintet; explosive punk rock marching band, Extra Action Marching Band; lo fi local heroes, Rube Waddell, salsa reggae hip hop maestros, Manicato and The Bayonics; afrobeat dynamos, Aphrodesia; and Balkan horn sensations, Brass Menazeri.

The Hornucopia Festival is also a non-profit effort to benefit community organizations through a free music workshop, an educational presentation on the provocative history of brass and horn music, and as a fundraiser for two worthy causes: delivering new instruments into the hands of beleaguered youth second line bands in New Orleans and raising money for a humanitarian circus that presents free shows and workshops to refugee children in Kosovo."

- hornucopiafestival.org

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http://www.hornucopiafestival.org