REVOLUTIONARY SNAKE ENSEMBLE with Special Guests

Celebrate the coming spring with Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble as they are joined by New Orleans icon & vocalist Henri Smith for their annual Mardi Gras party!  This year they'll toast the season a few days after the official date of Mardi Gras, and it will be a jazz throw-down, with some very special surprise guests!

Formed in 1990 with trumpeter Scott Getchell for a performance at a Boston-area loft party, the group has been fusing contemporary New Orleans second line brass band music with funk and improvisational jazz for over 35 years.  Their 5th album "Serpentine" focuses on Field's original compositions, along with arrangements of diverse works from Frank Zappa to the Appalachian traditional song "The Water is Wide."  Downbeat says it's "such an invigorationg blast," and United Mutations calls it "impressive...beautiful."  According to Provincetown Magazine, the album is "Splendid...spontaneous, improvisational, rigged with the band's energy and prosody...a solid blast of brass in a mercury-wild package.  This is music for listening, moving your ass. It's music for being alive."

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble can "rumble like storms and whisper like ghosts," notes Vito Camarretta in Chain D.L.K.

"Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble have been joining the New Orleans brass band tradition to vanguard jazz, swinging NOLA funk, second-line street music, blues, and much more ... A band at the height of their powers ... a harmonic sophistication that should be the envy of most jazz and brass band musicians" - AllMusic.com

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Vocalist Henri Smith has been thrilling New Orleans audiences for years with his sophisticated swing and dramatic delivery of jazz, blues, and Cajun flavored music. He relocated to Massachusetts in 2005 after losing his home to Katrina. New Orleans born and bred, Smith has long been a radio personality on the legendary WWOZ, where his radio show featured the contemporary jazz that he loves and now sings professionally. With many connections in the music world, he frequently served as emcee and vocalist at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival for artists such as Kermit Ruffins and Ellis Marsalis. henrismithneworleans.com

 
All GA sections (Main Floor GA & Miles Davis Mezzanine) will be seated by host and are first come, first served (other than where a reserved sign is posted to table).  If you require special seating, please call the venue for accommodations no later than 48 hours prior to show date.

Please note that if you do not purchase all seats aat a table, other customers may be seated at the table.

~~*if you purchase dinner and show packages, dinner is two hours prior to showtime in the Boathouse 400 restaurant, located on the second floor of the hote.  Dinner and show packages include a 3 course dinner, one complimentary glass of house red or white wine or non-alcoholic beverage, all staate and local taxes, 18% gratuity and complimentary parking in the hotel garage while enjoying dinner and show.

iAll purchases are non-refundable