Earlier this year, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band performed for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. The seven-piece group brought the 40 years of experience under its collective belt to a national audience ...

“You could have the best rock and roll band playing on stage, and a brass band would come and turn the whole house out. Something about that energy that a brass band brings: we got music for your mind ...

In the New Orleans of yesteryear, some residents of the Big Easy enjoyed a vital community amenity, the tradition of the social aid and pleasure club. When a resident died, if their family could not ...

Do you ever think about where bands start and then where they end up, and what on Earth the people who started the band would’ve thought about where it would take them if they’d had any idea? Take, ...

It is 11/11, make a wish! If you wished to see The Dirty Dozen Brass Band live in person – you’re in luck. The WMNF Song of the Day is “Night Train” by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, recorded Live at ...

The Grammy Award-winning Dirty Dozen Brass Band will perform at Fort Mose Historic State Park on Sunday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. The New Orleans-based band is known for its unique "musical gumbo" sound that ...

Roger Lewis’ business card says he plays music for all occasions. And after 35 years as a member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, he’s played small clubs and in front of massive audiences at festival ...

This week, we shine our video spotlight on New Orleans' Dirty Dozen Brass Band, who will be back in St. Louis to perform next Saturday, February 26 on a double bill with singer/pianist Jon Cleary at ...

The sousaphone shakes the floor and your chest; the drums make you want to march in protest or celebration of something, or to dance; the saxes and trumpets riffle and riff through all the pages in ...

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band will perform at 7 p.m., Saturday, June 7, at the Blue Ridge Music Center’s amphitheater at milepost 213 on the Blue Ridge Parkway just south of Galax, Virginia. DaShawn & ...