| News From Our Colleagues in the Stumblebum Brass Band: Crazy Ron Caswell is now their tuba player. He’s the man about town with the hair like a chicken’s, often seen wearing a kilt and carrying a gigantic brass instrument. Read on:
Dear Stumblebums, Come to our BIG show introducing our NEW tuba player, Disco Ron, also know as the great Ron Caswell. One of the best around, he has played w/ everyone, everywhere including Slavic Soul Party, Beat Circus, City Opera. Let’s haze him, get him really drunk and see if he can still rock out with us Stumblebum Style! Details: |
 Ron Caswell AKA Disco Ron |
Raya Brass Band gleefully mashes up the music of Eastern Europe with funky American dance grooves. Featuring odd meters, unusual scales and a fine helping of gorgeous Balkan and Romany (Gypsy) melodies played on reeds, trumpet, accordion, tuba and drums, Raya Brass Band slakes the thirst for something old and new at the same time, unusual and catchy, spiritedly played by some of NYC's finest Balkan folk musicians. More...
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- We're playing at Barbes tonight at 10 PM. Come on by!
- Yikes!!! (Video: Samir Kurtov) http://youtu.be/gXMkmZJQT38
- @railbirdmusic Hey Ben's wearing his Railbird shirt in Tivoli! http://tinyurl.com/29os4bo Hope to see you guys in NYC again soon.
- While we're posting media, here's a nice pic of Winston and the band in Tivoli a couple weeks ago: http://tinyurl.com/29os4bo
- Looks like someone shot some video of us at our last Barbes gig! http://youtu.be/sdI0jWsCpkA We're back there on September 2nd, so join us!
- Video: A Hawk and a Hacksaw in Poland http://youtu.be/-_W9841LRi0 Trumpeter Sam Johnson is a former college classmate of Raya's @bensyversen
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