Mama Digdown's Brass Band with special guest, the Akie Bermiss Trio

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One of the hottest and hardest hitting brass bands on the scene today, along  with the funky Neo-soul sounds of the Akie Bermiss Trio.

Mama Digdown's Brass Band w. special guests the Akie Bermiss Trio &amp; emcee Trish CookSaturday, January 15, 20227 pm Doors // 8 pm Show$25 Advance General Admission // $33 At The DoorAll AgesTickets sales are final &amp; non-refundable*The Parkway Theater requires Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative Test Result for entry to all events.*

Madison’s Mama Digdown’s Brass Band returns to the Parkway Theater with jazz and soul singer Akie Bermiss, a member of Lake Street Dive, and his trio. The show will be emceed by comedian Trish Cook.For over two decades, Mama Digdown's has traveled the world spreading the gospel of New Orleans brass band music, earning their solid reputation as one of the hottest and hardest hitting brass bands on the scene today.

Mama Digdown’s Brass Band is more than two and a half decades into a career that has brought them to clubs, concert halls and festivals around the world. Conceived of closer to the headwaters than to the Mississippi Delta, Mama Digdown’s was born amidst the fertile decade of the New Orleans brass band revival of the early 1980s to the early 1990s - a decade that also produced the Rebirth Brass Band, Soul Rebels and the Hot 8 Brass Band. Respected around the world as one of the best purveyors of second line brass music, the band has released nine albums, and in 2018 and 2019 had the honor of being invited to perform in Congo Square for New Orleans Brass Fest. <a href="https://mamadigdown.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Website</a> // <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mamadigdown" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a> // <a href="https://twitter.com/mamadigdowns" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Twitter </a>// <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mamadigdowns/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>

Akie Bermiss lives in Brooklyn where he was raised in a musical household full of jazz and politics, fueled by his former-activist mom and dad. He began singing in church, moved it to school for a while, enroute becoming somewhat of a musical chameleon. His raucous, guttural and soulful vocals are a delectable fusion of Donny Hathaway and Tom Waits. He’s equally adept singing Neo-soul, funk, contemporary jazz, alternative rock, and hip hop. Akie sings and plays keyboards with Lake Street Dive and contributed a number of compositions to the band's most recent album entitled, Obviously. Additionally, Akie is a member of the rich Neo-soul scene in Brooklyn, often performing with Aabaraki, the Screaming Headless Torsos, Miri Ben-Ari (the hip hop violinist) and rap sensation Soul Khan. In 2014, he released his first self-titled solo EP (via Rockwood Records). This marks the Akie Bermiss Trio’s first Parkway Theater show in Minneapolis!<a href="https://www.akiebermissmusic.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Website </a>// <a href="https://www.facebook.com/akiebermissmusic" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook </a>// <a href="https://twitter.com/akiebermiss" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Twitter </a>// <a href="https://www.instagram.com/akiebermiss/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>

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