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February 14, 2012

Brass Band to help celebrate Mardi Gras here

Submitted by the Creative Arts Guild

The Creative Arts Guild will feature a Mardi Gras theme for its next In Concert Series program, featuring the River City Red Hots Brass Band.

Playing in the style of the Dixieland parade bands of New Orleans, the River City Red Hots Brass Band has been performing in the Southeast Tennessee, North Georgia and Northwest Alabama area since 2002.

The band includes the traditional instruments of clarinet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, banjo and sometimes drums and saxophone.

The Red Hots have performed for Nightfall, Riverbend, the Hamilton County Fair, Swingfest, the reopening of Chattanooga’s City Hall, the Delta Queen, the Southern Belle, the Mentone, Ala., Arts Festival, the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Tennessee Aquarium, the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum, Hamilton Place Mall and several Mardi Gras events and parades.

Members include Mike deYampert, banjo; Rick Grammer, trumpet; Doug Womack, trombone; Mitch Needham, tuba and Ralph Miller, leader, clarinet, saxophone, and sometimes washboard.

The playlist for this event will include: “Bill Bailey,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” “Down By the Riverside,” “Hard Hearted Hannah” and “When The Saints Go Marchin’ In.”

The Creative Arts Guild program will be Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Creative Arts Guild Performance Hall. Cost is $5. Beverages and concessions will be available.

For more information, contact Creative Arts Guild Music Director Lisa Elders at (706) 259-1822 or email music@creativeartsguild.org.

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