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Check out this photo slideshow featuring some of the New Orleans brass band musicians that were performing at the 2011 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival!

Walter Ramsey of the Stooges Brass Band

Hey y’all, just wanted to let everyone know that we’ve launched a newsletter with exclusive information and content about our project if you want to stay up to date with all the Brass Roots music, photos and videos.

To sign up, just click the link in the column to the right or below.

Also, we have 14 days left tin our Kickstarter and just over $5k we need to raise to reach our goal! We have over 700 “likes” on Facebook but just over 100 backers so we decided to give an extra incentive for anyone that wants to make any kind of contribution. Starting today, anyone who donates $15 will receive an exclusive 4×6 Brass Roots print of a picture like the one you see above.

Not only do backers get cool rewards, they also get early access to updates on our project that include new videos, audio and other work-in-progress media that you’ll only see if you pledge. If we can get 100 to donate $15 that’s $1500!!! Help us spread the word and support New Orleans brass band music!

Speaking of, hit the jump for this week’s music schedule.
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A man gets down on the street to some brass band grooves on Super Sunday 2011

Happy Monday Brass Roots fans!

As you all know, we’re rasing money through Kickstarter.com to finish our documentary! We’re excited to say after our launch weekend, we’re already past 10% of our funding goal! Thanks to everyone who’s been generous enough to donate so far!

Donations come with a variety of rewards including a 5×7 color copy of the picture you see above (and many others) for donating just $20! Any and all donations help!

Once again: Why $20,000? Because we’ve already put in over 18 months and thousands of dollars of our own money into this project and we’re on the cusp of finishing our filming. The money will go to help us travel with some of the bands, fund research (purchasing archived footage and photographs) and pay for a professional narrator.

We also want to donate copies of all of our raw footage to local and national universities and museums so that all fans of New Orleans, jazz, the arts and music can use it as a resource. We don’t want to just make a documentary, we want to preserve this music and the story of the people that play it for generations to come!

The money will ensure that this unprecedented documentary will be done in time for the possibility of being entered into the 2012 Film Festival circuit. We want the world to experience the unbridled joy of listening to brass band music and to learn about the amazing people that play the instruments and Kickstarter is just what we need to accomplish our goals.

So spread the word! The Brass Roots Kickstarter campaign will launch April 1st and will run for the entire month. If we raise more than our goal, we get it all, but if we don’t reach $20,000, we get nothing. It’s as simple as that, please help make sure that this project can be finished. Check out our fund drive promotional video below:

We’ll have even more details as the week progresses and we launch our campaign. For now, check out all the great brass bands you can see live across the country!

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