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places + spaces present Salvation Street Shout
for Cockatoo Calling on Cockatoo Island
Video from a performance on Saturday 6 August, 2011 as part of Cockatoo Calling - part of double bill with Impermanent quartet
Salvation Street Shout from Joanne Kee on Vimeo.
Be transported to the soulful streets of 1920s Charlotte, North Carolina as Salvation Street Shout revives the Southern tradition of the trombone shout band. Seven trombone players and one jumpin’ drummer will soothe and save you with their harmonic hymns, harking back to the church bands of old. Featuring the music of Sam Cooke and The Soul Stirrers, this is an experience that will be at once Holy and jivin’.
Inventive and resourceful musician and band Leader Lucian McGuiness is leading the first Sydney shout band. Featuring some of Sydney's finest trombone players.
Upbeat and engaging, shout band music is a musical statement from the trombones with an aria developing the melody and tempo followed by the shout, the ending call-and-response. As the song progresses, the sound intensifies from a whisper at the beginning to an exuberant crescendo.
Originating from the shout band tradition of the southeastern United States which originated from the exuberant church music of North Carolina. African American brass players formed bands, predominantly trombone-based, inspired by jazz, blues and Dixieland, gospel and old-time spirituals: a more soulful version of a New Orleans Brass Band. The United House of Prayer For All People, a Holiness denomination founded in 1919 in Massachusetts, is particularly known for its shout bands.
While shout bands became prevalent during the 1920s and 30s, by the 1960s the trombone, known for its ability to produce a wide range of emotive expression, emerged as the lead instrument. Large groups of trombones are treated almost as a vocal choir, each with its own part. Shout band music is made to closely emulate the exact sound and techniques utilized by the voices of singers and choirs, including but not limited to, vibratos, slurs, and glissandos. This is the primary reason that a trombone is typically found as the lead instrument.
 Grant Arthur trombone/sousaphone
Dan Barnett trombone
Jamie Cameron drums
Sam Golding trombone/sousaphone
John Hibbard trombone
Lucian McGuiness trombone
Dave Panichi trombone
Mike Raper trombone
Alex Silver trombone
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