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Mardi Gras Mambo 2022! - Featuring The Dirty Dozen Brass Band & Nathan Williams & The Zydeco Cha Cha’s at The Venice West
Courtesy of Ticketmaster | Posted on December 4, 2021
Where
The Venice West
1717 Lincoln Blvd
Venice, CA
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When
Tue, February 15, 2022
8:00 pm
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About
In 1977, The Dirty Dozen Social and Pleasure Club in New Orleans began showcasing a traditional Crescent City brass band. It was a joining of two proud, but antiquated, traditions at the time: social and pleasure clubs dated back over a century to a time when black southerners could rarely afford life insurance, and the clubs would provide proper funeral arrangements. Brass bands, early predecessors of jazz as we know it, would often follow the funeral procession playing somber dirges, then once the family of the deceased was out of earshot, burst into jubilant dance tunes as casual onlookers danced in the streets...