The Southside Aces have performed at the Vieux Carré and Dakota jazz clubs, Peavey Plaza, Mears Park, Twin Cities Jazz Fest, Hopkins Jazz Festival, and the Doc Evans Jazz Festival.
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Many songs from lesser-known constellations in the jazz firmament such as AJ Piron and Tiny Parham found their way in there, plus Crescent City classics like “Bourbon Street Parade,” “Just A Closer Walk With Thee” and “St. They possess a diverse repertoire, with a roll call that includes the names of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke. With such a wealth of good music from which to draw, the group is dedicated to highlighting the songs and not the players. In New Orleans, the jazz tradition thrives off a wide array of tunes and styles. Their music garnered the declaration, “A true authentic New Orleans dance-hall style band” from the New Orleans Traditional Jazz Quarterly. The Aces have self-produced and released five albums: All Aboard!!, Bucktown Bounce, A Big Fine Thing, their Christmas album, Santaphone, and their latest, Second Thursday. The band began as the brainchild of clarinetist Tony Balluff and sousaphone player Erik Jacobson. Southside Aces perform traditional New Orleans jazz. JBB has the ability and repertoire to play everything from old New Orleans jazz from Louis Armstrong’s era, to the modern street Mardi-Gras anthems with the instrumentation, feel, and energy they have mastered through countless gigs, parades, festival appearances, and trips to New Orleans to listen, learn, and play alongside the masters. The 8-piece band plays “Feel-Good Music” for audiences of any age, for any occasion. Based on the traditions of New Orleans brass bands, they are ambassadors of the Crescent City’s rich musical history. The Jack Brass Band formed in 1999 in the Twin Cities metro. The other six bands have performed at Vintage Band Festival in previous years and are coming back due to audience accolades. New to the VBF stage this year will be Bend in the River Big Band, a 19-piece swing band playing for the Friday night Victory Dance and Hornucopia: A Tribute to Horns in the Rock Era. The lineup is set for the Thursday-Saturday evening shows on the Bridge Square main stage at Vintage Band Festival 2019. If you want to make your gift with a credit card, go to and click on the big green “Donate” button. If you are donating by check, send your gift to: In addition, we will be hosting an exclusive donor reception in July, just before the festival begins. Donors are featured prominently in the festival program and onsite at the Bridge Square Main Stage. A gift in any amount is always welcome, but gifts of $100 or more are critically important right now. If you have recently made a gift to Vintage Band Festival, our sincere thanks! If it’s been awhile, won’t you please consider a gift at this time? A successful spring fund drive outcome is essential to the success of our summer festival.
The goal for our 2019 spring fund drive is $20,000. New to Vintage Band Festival in 2019 will be the 1st Nebraska Volunteers Brass Band, Arizona’s Territorial Brass and the Imperial Cornet Band from Baltimore, Maryland.Ĭheck the VBF website often for the complete schedule and breaking news. We will have the 1st Brigade Band from Watertown, Wisconsin, Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band, and the Independent Silver Band from Mount Vernon, Illinois. There will be a number of living history bands with us this year, some that are familiar and several that are new. Saturday night will feature Southside Aces and Hornucopia: A Tribute to Horn Bands in the Rock Era. Friday night we welcome back Copper Street Brass and then we’ll have a victory dance with Bend in the River Big Band. Thursday evening, August 1, the headliners will be Mariachi Mi Tierra and McNasty Brass Band. This year there will be 11 bands that have never performed at Vintage Band Festival before, two of which are from Europe. The roster we have assembled consists of three international groups, seven domestic ensembles from outside Minnesota and an amazing array of Minnesota bands from around the state.
We are incredibly excited for Vintage Band Festival 2019. The rest will need to come from other grants, and businesses and individuals such as you. We are fortunate to have the Wenger Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board as our principal funders, but their support accounts for just 40% of our $100,000 budget for 2019. The generous and loyal financial support from businesses, foundations and individuals like you continues to make it possible for us to present such amazing musicians and ensembles and not charge admission. It’s time for our annual spring fund drive here at Vintage Band Festival.
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