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Revolutionary Snake Ensemble live performances and music videos!

"The Skunk is D'Funk'd" - RSE Mardi Gras Party 2020!

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's Mardi Gras Party, February 21, 2020 at Regattabar, Cambridge, MA, USA. Performance of "The Skunk is D'Funk'd" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI), with Dave Harris/bone, Jerry Sabatini/tpt, Ken Field/alto, Tom Hall/tenor, Phil Neighbors/drms, Blake Newman/bass, with guest Amadee Castenell/tenor. Video by Cecily Miller.

RSE w guests Amadee Castenell & Henri Smith, Regattabar, Mardi Gras 2018

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Mardi Gras show, Feb 13, 2018, at Regattabar, Cambridge, MA, with special guests Amadee Castenell (flute/tenor sax) & Henri Smith (vox). Video by Cecily Miller.

Ken Field-sax&leader, Dave Harris-tbn&tuba, Phil Neighbors-drm, Blake Newman-bass, Jerry Sabatini-tpt, Tom Hall-sax

RSE w guests Charles Neville & Henri Smith, Regattabar, Mardi Gras 2017

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble sold out show for Mardi Gras, Feb 28, 2017, at Regattabar, Cambridge, MA, with special guests Charles Neville (tenor sax) & Henri Smith (vox). Video by Joanne Kaliontzis.

Ken Field-sax&leader, Dave Harris-tbn&tuba, Phil Neighbors-drm, Blake Newman-bass, Jerry Sabatini-tpt, Tom Hall-sax

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble at The Stone, NYC, 2011

Sunday, May 22, 8pm
Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Alex Smith (elec bass) Blake Newman (acoustic bass) Joey Lefitz (drums) Kenny Wollesen (drums) Alex Asher (trombone) Josh Roseman
(trombone) Daniel Heath (trombone) Jerry Sabatini (trumpet) Ken Field (alto sax)
Boston saxophonist & composer Ken Field (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Willie Loco Alexander, Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Bridgman/
Packer Dance, Sesame St) brings his improvisational brass band, with releases on innova & Cuneiform, to NYC for their first area
performance in 2 years. This special collaboration with guests Wollesen and Roseman et al was recorded, and appears on the release "Live Snakes". Avant second line funk.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Street Party

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble plays for the people in Somerville.

Parade Of Numbers

Animated characters with miniature masks for heads march across the screen carrying numbers, to the mardi gras music of The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble. Kids' voices by Ben Kusiak, Emma Child, and Jeff Rovanelli. This segment also appears on the Sesame Street videotapes "One Two Three, Count With Me" & "The Great Numbers Game: The Best of Sesame Street's Classic Cartoons" in case you want to march around your living room on your own schedule... This song is available on the Ken Field CD Pictures of Motion, and on the CD "Year of the Snake" by the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble "Liza Jane" at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC

Led by saxophonist Ken Field, Boston's costumed funk/street beat improvisational brass band performs a unique blend of original and traditional New Orleans brass band music.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble "I Got It" (Field) at John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC

Led by saxophonist Ken Field, Boston's costumed funk/street beat improvisational brass band performs a unique blend of original and traditional New Orleans brass band music.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble "Cassandra 4" (Field) at John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC

Led by saxophonist Ken Field, Boston's costumed funk/street beat improvisational brass band performs a unique blend of original and traditional New Orleans brass band music.

"Soul Power" (James Brown)

"Soul Power" from Year of the Snake

"Soul Makossa" (Manu Dibango)

"Soul Makossa" from Year of the Snake

"I Want That Sound!" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"I Want That Sound!" from I Want That Sound!

"A Call For All Demons" (Sun Ra)

"A Call For All Demons" from Year of the Snake

"Slippery When Wet" (Lacinak)

"Slippery When Wet" from I Want That Sound!

"Discoveries" (Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"Discoveries" from I Want That Sound!

"Breakdown Part I" (Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"Breakdown Part I" from Live Snakes

"Cassandra 4" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"Cassandra 4" from Live Snakes

"Central Square" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"Central Square" from Year of the Snake

"El Choclo"

"El Choclo" from Year of the Snake

"Iko Iko/Aicho"

"Iko Iko/Aicho" from Year of the Snake

"Roohane" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"Roohane" from I Want That Sound!

"Higgins Hollow" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"Higgins Hollow" from I Want That Sound!

"Slots" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"Slots" from Live Snakes

"Year of the Snake" (Ken Field, et al)

"Year of the Snake" from Year of the Snake

"Just Walk Closer" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"Just Walk Closer" from I Want That Sound!

"John's Jailhouse Blues" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"John's Jailhouse Blues" from I Want That Sound!

"Rock of Ages"

"Rock of Ages" from Live Snakes

"Cassandra 5" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"Cassandra 5" from Live Snakes

"For Karen" (Ken Field, et al)

"For Karen" from Live Snakes

"I'll Fly Away"

"I'll Fly Away" from Live Snakes

"I Got It" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI)

"I Got It" from Year of the Snake (video by Ned Resnikoff)

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