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The Mississippi Swing Brass Band
just won the St. Paddy Parade
2012 Othar Turner Award!
The band previously won in
2008, 2009, & 2010.
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Twenty-one volunteers strong, the Mississippi Swing Brass Band celebrated its 7th year in the St. Paddy Parade and won the 2012 Othar Turner Marching Award! Thousands of people lined the streets as floats and marchers made their way along the parade route! For the 30th year, revelers screamed for beads and waved to passing floats during the annual street party. This year's parade attracted an estimated 70,000 people and brought millions of dollars into the metro area. The band has won the Othar Turner Award 4 out of the past 5 years! The Mal's St. Paddy Parade is one of the Top 5 in the nation!
This year's volunteers included -
Trumpet: David Schommer, Jeff Reiter, Jeff Carter, Anne Berthold, Lee Schilling, Cal Horlings
Trombone: Jay Bennett, Bill Lumpkin, Mike Weidick
Sax: Maurice Hillman
Tuba: Philemon Nelson
E-flat Horn: Trey Bennett
Banjo: Adam Chapman
Drum Line: Bryce Upshaw, Brian Upshaw, Bobby McClellan, and Dustin Nugent.
Percussion / Photographer: Elizabeth Koskie
Bead Girl / Security: Becky McClellan, Annette Reiter, Taylor Volz
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The Otha (Othar) Turner Award
Blues fife and drum musician Otha (Othar) Turner was born in 1909 in Rankin County, Mississippi and grew up near the Mississippi Delta. Fife and drum music is a traditional genre that has its roots in the northern Mississippi hill country and is based on African-American work songs and spirituals. Turner worked as a farmer in Como, Mississippi, where he also led the Rising Star Fife and Drum Corps for sixty years. The band eventually made it to Chicago, where for years they opened the city's legendary Blues Festival. Even in his nineties Turner was still recording and preserved his historically significant music. Turner also appeared every year at the Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival in Mississippi, where his Fife and Drum Corps was the opening act. His band in his later years included his daughter, grandchildren and nephew. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Award, the Smithsonian Lifetime Achievement Award and the Charlie Patton Lifetime Achievement from the Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival. Most recently his music was heard as part of the soundtrack of the movie Gangs of New York, which included his song "Shimmy She Wobble." Othar Turner died in February 2003 aged 94.
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The Jackson All-Stars is a professional variety band based in Jackson, Mississippi. Featuring a full horn section and a distinctive New Orleans influence, the group packs quite a punch, specializing in a variety of musical styles including Jazz, Swing, Latin, Dixieland, Brass Band, and Party Rock. Add to this mix the group's unique chemistry and the result is an exciting live performance!
The audio samples on this site are "raw" live recordings from performances at The Capital Club, in Jackson and Fitzgerald's Casino, in Tunica. Musicians included: Bud Berthold (drums), Richard Smith (keyboard), Bernard Holly (bass), Dr. London Branch (bass - Fitzgerald's), Jeff Reiter (lead trumpet), David Schommer (trumpet), Pat Cornechione (tenor sax / clarinet), Jeff Callaway (trombone), and Lori Blount (vocals). Five audio samplers are currently available: Dixieland, Ballads, Latin, Jazz, and Swing. The audio player will automatically play all five samplers. Click on the "fast forward" button if you want to skip to the next sample. Samples of R&B, Funk, Blues, Soul and Party Rock will be available in the future...
- David Schommer, Bandleader
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Saints 2011 NFC South Division Champions!
Brees breaks Marino's 27-year-old passing yardage mark with 5,087 yards!
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Mississippi Swing! @ Pepsi Pops
May 11th, 6PM by admission
Mississippi Swing! @ Belhaven University
May 19th, 7PM - Free!
Mississippi Swing! @ My Wedding Reception!
St. Matthews Methodist Church (Madison)
May 20th, 2:30-3:30 PM
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SAINTS 2010 SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!!
WHO DAT?!!!
Saints 31 Colts 17
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