Dressed a la Mardi Gras in feathered masks and multi-colored, sequined costumes, playing music that riotously combines the rhythms of New Orleans brass bands with improvisation and heaping undercurrents of funk, The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble inhabits that rare musical planet on which Sun Ra, James Brown, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic and a myriad of New Orleans marching bands jointly reside. Based physically in Boston since forming in 1990, the horn and percussion-based group is led by saxophonist/composer Ken Field, who describes it as “a funk and street beat brass band, playing New Orleans and other modern improvised celebratory styles.” The Snake’s music is rooted in the New Orleans tradition of jazz funerals – a tradition unique to the birthplace of jazz.

In February 2009 the group is repeating an annual tour from Boston to New Orleans to march with the Krewe of Muses for their 2/19/09 Mardi Gras parade, and will be traveling and performing on the Amtrak Crescent train via a long-standing partnership with Amtrak. In coordination with Amtrak, the group will stop and perform at various points along that route.

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Monday, February 16th, 2009 | Show 8pm | Upstairs Live

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