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Mardi Gras Brattleboro with Celebration Brass Band at Echo Lounge!

Tuesday night, March 5, Echo Restaurant & Lounge, 69-73 Main Street in Brattleboro, will be hosting a full-on Mardi Gras party with the Celebration Brass Band ruling the roost! Restaurant reservations highly recommended! Live music 7:30 - 10:30. Celebration Brass Band, under the direction of founder and New Orleans native Pete Simoneaux, is the CT River Valley’s longest running and most authentic New Orleans style brass band…. Great New Orleans music… ancient to future!

Earlier Event: March 2
Mardi Gras Throwdown with Bayou X & Zydeco Connection
Later Event: April 7
Southern Roots Dance Party Benefit for Brattleboro Women's Chorus

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.