Brooka Brass Band to Play Marquee!
Booka Brass Band have been confirmed to open for The Frames 25th Anniversary Concerts in Dublin and Cork next month. The Dublin-band New Orleans style brass band who have been tearing up clubs and festivals all over the country and receiving rave reviews. Tickets for all three shows are sold out.
Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, Saturday July 4th (SOLD OUT)
Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, Sunday July 5th (SOLD OUT)
Live @ the Marquee, Cork, Saturday July 11th (SOLD OUT)
Booka Brass Band have become something of an enigma. What started out as a group of young music students shyly addressing a bar full of revellers has unforeseeably become an 8 piece band of professional entertainers and craftsmen, capable of not just grabbing and holding the attention of thousands of fans in a festival tent or at any number of their sold out shows throughout 2014/15, but leaving them with something that they are not about to forget in this life time.
The band are made up of 8 characters, each with a different story to tell and each bringing their own brand of enthralling stage presence that make Booka Brass Band impossible to take your eyes off once they hit the stage.
2014 brought them a year of success that was well deserved as it was unexpected even for them. The band have seduced audiences from main arena shows at Electric Picnic, Glastonbury, main stage at Body and Soul to their sell out debut shows in Dublin’s Button Factory and Vicar Street along with their sell out debut Irish tour last March.
They have collaborated with artists like Lisa Hannigan, James Vincent McMorrow, Paul Noonan, We Cut Corners, Jerry Fish, to name just a few as well as played in his home by invitation from the President of Ireland. They were invited to play at Other Voices. They have played with Imelda May, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, The Hot 8 Brass Band and finished off the year to a sold out Vicar Street crowd on New Year’s Eve. They released their debut EP in February of this year.
‘Booka Brass Band have every right to be claimed as Ireland’s best live act right now’, – Golden Plec
‘If you can only take in one new act this festival season, make it Booka Brass Band’ – The Irish Independent
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Twitter: @bookabrass
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