On the Spot celebrates the fifth album and twenty year history of The Hot 8 Brass Band, the first American band signed by UK-based Tru-Thoughts Records. Like their New Orleans hometown, The Hot 8 ...

From New Orleans, down to Rabat, The Hot 8 Brass Band crossed the Atlantic to revive the tradition of the marching band in an African spot. Part of the street program in Mawazine Festival Rhythms of ...

Season Two of HBO’s ‘Treme’ will feature The Hot 8 Brass Band, their music and their post Katrina hardships. Hot 8 band leader and founder Bennie Pete shares details about his experience working on ...

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Fellow members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have established a GoFundMe campaign to benefit the family of co-founder and sousaphonist Bennie Pete. Pete died Sept. 6 of complications from COVID-19 and ...

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Bennie Pete, sousaphone player and co-founder of New Orleans’ beloved Hot 8 Brass Band has died from complications from sarcoidosis and COVID-19, Nola.com reported. He was 45 years old. Pete died on ...

On Wednesday, the Grammy-nominated New Orleans outfit Hot 8 Brass Band released the video to their cover of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” The video is filmed entirely in and throughout New ...

Terrell Batiste of the Hot 8 Brass Band is a first-time homeowner of a brand-new home in the Habitat for Humanity’s Musicians’ Village. It was built especially for him, to accommodate the fact that he ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. For the past 15 years, Hot 8 Brass Band has been one of the most popular and visible funk-style brass bands in New Orleans. Like most of the ...

The likes of Louis Armstrong (and many others) got an early musical initiation via playing on the street and even today it's possible to visit New Orleans and find brass bands busking in the French ...