US hip hop and jazz extraordinaires the Hot 8 Brass Band will be returning to Cumbria for a live show later this month.

New Orleans' premier purveyors of roof-raising, jazz-infused, funk and hip hop-fuelled marching band music are embarking on a tour of the UK and Ireland, and will call in at the Brewery Arts Centre, in Kendal, on Saturday May 28.

Highlighted by their recent Grammy nomination for their striking second album, The Life & Times Of…The Hot 8 Brass Band, they have received immense accolades from local, national, and the international music media.

The members of the Hot 8 were born and raised in New Orleans and many began playing together in high school. Today, the band combines local performances with national and international appearances. With their third LP, Tombstone, Hot 8 have gained widespread coverage and support worldwide.

They have been featured in the HBO series Treme, in Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke, and on Time-Life Records and Smithsonian Folkways, and regularly tour the US and the world.

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“Everyone knows what this band has been through,” says bandleader and sousaphone player Bennie Pete. 

“Our story is the story of the New Orleans streets. This album just tells those stories to the world.”

Celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2015, the band made a series of releases, including albums, live records and singles of covers, such as The Specials' Ghost Town and Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing. 

They head to the Brewery Arts Centre later this month, having appeared in Cumbria on their previous visits to the UK.

Doors for the show on May 28 open at 8pm, and tickets are available from the venue's box office.