BIG SAM'S FUNKY NATION
& TARACE BOULBA

A NIGHT OF FANFARE FUNK
AT BLUE NILE

Date: Friday, May 1, 2009
Time: Doors open at 9Pm (early show)
Place: Blue Nile, 532 Frenchmen St. New Orleans
Tickets: Advance tickets are $20 available at www.backbeatpresents.com

Come shake what your mama gave you on Friday, May 1st with the unstoppable
funky fever of Big Sam's Funky Nation and the brass blasts of Tarace Boulba!

Big Sam's Funky Nation is boldly led by trombone powerhouse Big Sam Williams,
a talented trombonist who began his career with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band at
the age of 19, and who the San Francisco Chronicle calls "the top man on the
slide trombone in the birthplace of jazz." However, Big Sam's Funky Nation is
not a one man show; the members of the Funky Nation, a group of well trained
and experienced musicians with the soul and sensibilities of the streets, meet
the challenge of their band leader. As Jambase Online proclaims, "as long as
groups like Big Sam's Funky Nation helm communal happenings like this one the
funky fever is bound to spread."

Together with the funky grooves of Big Sam's Funky Nation will be the horns of
the big-band funk Tarace Boulba, a French brass band with thirty
mouths and ten
times more fingers. Tarace Boulba was created in 1993 by Matthieu
Paulus and OJ
Ruffier Of Aimes, two old members of Négresse Verte. The band is also
a non-profit association called Rasta Baboul, which offers musicians
an opportunity to hone their craft, play on stage, and contribute
their talent to a collective vibe. Based on the principle of
accessibility, associative operation and practice of the "free music
for all."