Check out this video from about 1:15 on, as a brass band play the leftist anthem "Bella Ciao" to drown out #ProudBoy neo-Nazis who showed up at a #NoKings rally in Atlanta yesterday. Not only is it incredibly heartening, but the band SLAPS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBaJpzAR2k
ETA: A Tumblr user identified the band, "The Black Sheep Ensemble":
I like the Leslie Fish cover:
https://youtu.be/euSOV2Y41JI
@mattg @pluralistic we’re out there in lots of cities!
we even have our own music festivals, if you want to find/hear more activist brass band music: http://honkfest.org (this is the original such festival in Somerville, MA, but there are others in Seattle, Austin, NYC, and other cities)
Scrolling through bands that have played at past Honk! festivals is also a pretty good way to try to find an activist band from your city: https://honkfest.org/all-bands
God I love Honk!
To celebrate the repelling of invaders is why my partner and I celebrate Hanukkah even though we're both atheists and I'm not even Jewish.
We like thinking about mighty empires getting their butts kicked. The candles remind us that the concept is neither new nor likely to go out of style any time soon.
It's *always* worth celebrating when in any invader gets thrown out, no matter what the cost.
Musicians enforcing the peace ✌🏼 🎷 🎉
The man at the back instructs the other three to clap.
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Really great to see it…
What energy! So thankful they’re on our side.
Love, love, love the E Flat tuba !
The Black Sheep Ensemble ROCK!
It's hilarious that the PBs are actually rocking along by the end of the vid 😂 📯
Yes! I thought that was what was happening, but wasn’t sure.
The music was pretty irresistible!
I've been looking for an excuse to buy a trombone and restart my high school music career. Playing in a protest Klezmer band may be it....
Who's in?
Very proud to be a child of Atlanta today
Also there used to be a serious antifascist street band scene in Atlanta, and I'm glad to see it's still alive!
@pluralistic If you need words (in English) here is a good cover...
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That's funny! I remember about 35 years ago in Harvard Square, when a Lyndon LaRouche supporter had set up a desk and was ranting about various conspiracies. A street performer nearby with a saxophone drifted over and started punctuating the LaRouchite's rant with loud saxophone riffs. The LaRouchite tried to drown him out, but the saxophone overpowered him. Eventually he gave up and left.
It totally cracked me up!
@Mopsi @pluralistic
Did you know, flute uses the same fingerings as a number of others? I am not saying you will instantly know how to blow a reed, but frankly that's easier than the flute, anyway, but if you ever -want- to branch out ...
Sax, clarinet, oboe, a few others, are basically the -exact- same, only pitch shifted. It's kinda cool to realize the big difference is 'instead of playing it to the side, point hands down', and it -feels- the same
To be clear, I am not being a smartass or attempting to be an ass, I actually really didn't know this for a while, and a number of people I know didn't, especially ones who are learning outside of a large music room space, and I just think it's quite interesting!
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