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Interesting Gigs: Howard Fishman's Biting Fish Brass Band @ NUBLU NYC : Friday, May 1 2009

Funky, brass music!

New Orleans style The Biting Fish Brass Band features Downtown favorite Howard Fishman fronting a New Orleans-style brass band and performing an eclectic, funky repertoire that careens from street-beat style traditional gospel to surprising covers to Fishman's own quirkly, fun originals.

A former New Orleans resident, Fishman brings his deep affection for Louisiana music to bear, with references to classic R&B stylists Smiley Lewis and Professor Longhair, jazz legends Danny Barker and Jelly Roll Morton, and even explores some of the region's rural Cajun repertoire.

This is small band with a mighty, infectious sound, suitable for both happy listening and ridiculous dancing. "...Transcends time and idiom."
- NY Times

Nublu 62 Ave C, between 4th & 5th St., NYC 212-979-9925. Doors 8pm / Show 9pm / Curfew 11pm $10 at the door. Strictly 21+ w/ID

> Find out more about Howard Fishman's Biting Fish Brass Band at their website

Photo by Brennan Cavanaugh

Video : Howard Fishman - "A Ghost" (Live at Joe's Pub)