Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
- Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is an improvisational brass band based in the Boston area that specializes in playing New Orleans second line brass band music, as well as other modern improvised celebratory music. Led by saxophonist Ken Field, the group's colorful costumes and creative arrangements have earned it invitations to entertain audiences as large as 20,000. Revolutionary Snake Ensemble performances have included many venues including: the New Orleans Krewe of Muses Mardi Gras Parade , Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Cambridge River Festival, the HONK! festival, ArtBeat, the Central Square World's Fair, the Somerville Theater, First Night Boston, First Night Providence, First Night Fall River, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Puffin Cultural Forum, the Big Top (New Orleans) and the Berklee Performance Center.
The Ensemble can be heard on Parade of Numbers, an animated counting piece regularly aired on the television program Sesame Street.
Repeatedly nominated in their Best Music Poll by the Boston Phoenix and WFNX Radio, the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble includes a roster of notable Boston-area musicians. The group has also been twice nominated by a panel of music writers and critics for a Boston Music Award.
"Year of the Snake" was the group's debut CD, and includes interpretations of music by other artists including Field, Sun Ra, John Scofield and James Brown. Liner notes were contributed by two-time Grammy-winning New Orleans music producer Scott Billington. The CD was listed as one of the top CDs of the year on New York NPR affiliate WNYC, in the New Orleans Gambit Weekly, and on Radio Popolare in Milan, Italy.
"Forked Tongue", the group's second CD, was released May 13, 2008 on the [http://www.cuneiformrecords.com/bandshtml/rse.html Cuneiform] label and includes, among other tracks, a brass reinterpretation of Billy Idol's classic 'White Wedding.'
External links
* [http://fieldk.home.att.net/rse/ Revolutionary Snake Ensemble homepage]
* [http://myspace.com/revolutionarysnakeensemble Revolutionary Snake Ensemble myspace page]
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