Finding Our Folks

Art and Culture Combine To Spread the Message of Diversity

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The Math Project founder and social justice activist Omo Moses, producer of the second film of the day, "Finding Our Folk," made a guest appearance

Black Film Festival returns to Parrish Art Musem

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The East End Black Film Festival sponsored by the African-American Museum of the East End, the Parrish Art Museum and the Southampton Cultural and Civic Center will return to the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton for a third year on Saturday, November 8, with screenings beginning at 1 p.m.

Special guests producer Omo Moses and narrator Albert Sykes will be on hand for the screening of their film, “Finding Our Folk,” and light refreshments will be served, including ethnic food by Gloria’s of the Hamptons. A pass for the entire day of screenings is $5.

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Black Cultural Center brings New Orleans to Purdue

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Bennie Pete and his bandmates were a long way from home Saturday. But the Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans was happy to bring their home to West Lafayette.

Telling N�Orleans Story in Brass Band Music

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The Hot 8 Brass Band plays the kind of music that moves feet, body and soul. Founder of the group Benny Pete says it’s music that “makes you remember, makes you hold on, gives you hope and lets you heal.”

A Frozen Katrina

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

The country had a few days to prepare for Hurricane Katrina, and failed. It has more than three months to prepare for this frozen Katrina, and there will be no excuse this time…. A frozen Katrina will be measured in hypothermia cases and malnutrition or unfilled prescriptions if the poor are forced to spend grocery or medicine money on fuel.

lobstercrackers social aid & pleasure club

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

Well, the eighth annual Deer Isle Jazz Festival, on a tiny island in Down East Maine, was an unqualified success -- a presentation of the beauty and intensity of New Orleans music within a larger context of its social and political implications.

Members� murders incite Hot 8 Brass Band to soldier on

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

“We’ve always helped each other, always talked about what we would do if the worst happened to any of us,” Pete said. “Continuing on is a commitment we made when the guys died. They’d want us to keep on going."

Through the storms

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

When the band - one of the most popular in New Orleans, behind a revitalized sound that connects traditional brass with funk and hip-hop - takes the stage in the Museum of Fine Arts' Calderwood Courtyard on Wednesday, the timbre of its horns and the rumble of its drums will bear witness to fresh struggle and pain.

NEW ORLEANS-CULTURE, CRISIS, & COMMUNITY

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

From New Orleans, saxophonist and Mardi Gras Indian chief Donald Harrison; the Hot 8 Brass Band; a second-line parade; movies; panels; jazz clinic; and more.

Hot 8 at Summer of Jazz in Glenwood Springs

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:00:00 GMT

"If jazz were a food, it would be like a jazz gumbo," said front man Bennie "Big Peter" Pete.
He was laughing from somewhere at a gig in Nebraska. He went on to call Hot 8's mix of rap, reggae and marching band beats "feel good music." The point here isn't perfection. It's bigger than that.