Bayou X

Downhome Music From the Bayou & Beyond

Celebration Brass Band of VT is our New Orleans style brass band, led by Pete, and featuring a lineup of top Brattleboro VT area musicians, playing authentic New Orleans parade music, ranging from old school dirges and rambles, to New Orleans Second Line standards, to swing and modern jazz, brass band funk, and and ever growing range of Afro-Creole brass band idioms. Available for private parties, weddings, funerals and other public and private functions.

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My Bucket's Got a Hole In It, Part 1, Celebration Brass Band of VT, Red Fox Inn, Bondsville VT, Oct 13, 2018. Pete Simoneaux bass drum & vocal. Tim Ellis sousaphone. Steve Voorhees snare. Dan DeWalt trombone. Ron Kelley saxophone. Anders Burrows trumpet. Chuck Ober Trombone
My Bucket's Got a Hole In It, Part 2, Celebration Brass Band of VT, Red Fox Inn, Bondsville VT, Oct 13, 2018. Dan DeWalt trombone solo. Ron Kelley saxophone. Linda Simoneaux, parade marshal & videographer.
Skokiaan, Part 1. Celebration Brass Band of VT, Stone Church VT, Brattleboro, Jan 25, 2019. Anders Burrows, trumpet and vocal. Tim Ellis sousaphone, Ron Kelley tenor sax and Walter Slowinski alto sax, Dan DeWalt trombone. Pete Simoneaux bass drum, Stephen Voorhees snare drum, Julian Gerstin percussion. Linda Simoneaux, parade marshal, principal dancer.
St Louis Blues, Part 2, Celebration Brass Band of VT, Stone Church VT, Brattleboro, Jan 25, 2019. Linda Simoneaux, vocals. Tim Ellis sousaphone, Ron Kelley and Walter Slowinski saxophones, Anders Burrows trumpet, Dan DeWalt trombone. Pete Simoneaux bass drum, Stephen Voorhees snare drum, Julian Gerstin percussion.
Abdullah Ibrahim's African Marketplace, by Celebration Brass Band of VT, and Kotoko Brass, live, Jan 25, 2019, at Stone Church, Brattleboro VT.

Back O’Town Cajun Band plays classic, acoustic Cajun music, straight up. Pete & Linda Simoneaux on fiddle, accordion(s) and vocals, with Michael Pattavina on acoustic guitar on vocals. Augmented as needed by Bayou X mainstays Steve Frankel on electric bass, and Ben Carr on drums. Back O’Town’s repertoire encompasses the work of artists such as Amadee Ardoin & Dennis McGee, Joe & Cleoma Falcon, Leo Soileau with Mayeuse LaFleur and Moise Robin, Angela LeJeune, Iry LeJeune, Nathan Abshire, Lawrence Walker, the Balfa Brothers, and more, from from the legendary recordings of late 1920s and early 1930s, through the postwar periods of the 1940s and 50s, and the great Cajun music revival of the 1960s and 70s. Pete & Linda & Mike each bring over three decades experience playing and studying and dancing to this music. Dance instruction at all levels is also a staple of their repertoire.