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Sousaphonics

The Sousaphonics is a quintet from New South Wales who present music from styles that have found their most prominent expression in the Carnivals of the world.
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OLD TIME/JAZZ/STANDARDS
  • blueberry hill
  • tea for two
  • stompin’ at the savoy
  • i got rhythym
  • when the saints go marching in
  • basin street blues
  • st louis blues
  • mack the knife
  • i can’t give you anything but love
  • on te sunny side of the street
  • tiger rag
  • ain’t misbehavin’
  • the peanut vendor (el manisero)
  • summertime
  • my favourite things
  • inchworm
  • moose the mooche
  • how high the moon
  • star eyes
  • sly mongoose
  • what is this thing called love
  • cherokee
  • cantaloupe island
  • swing low sweet chariot
  • chelsea bridge (strayhorn)
  • c jam blues (ellington)
  • perdido (tizol)
  • i’m beginning to see the light (ellington)
  • things ain’t what they used to be (ellington)
  • blue skies (berlin)
  • a foggy day (g and i gershwin)
  • blue n’ boogie (dizzy gillespie)
  • night in tunisia (gillespie-paparelli)
  • oop bop sh’bam (gillespie-brown-fuller)
  • anthropology (parker-gillespie)
  • all the things you are (kern-hammerstein)
  • round’ midnight (monk-williams)
  • big alice (mingus)
  • my cherie amour (stevie wonder)
  • broadway (stevie wonder)
  • petite fleur (bechet)
  • the inflated tear (r r kirk)
COUNTRY
  • crazy (willie nelson)
  • stand by your man (cline)
KLEZMER
  • fun tashlikh
  • der gastun nigun
  • odessa bulgarish
  • tantz tantz yidelekh
REGGAE
  • pomps and pride (toots and the maytals)
  • wings of a dove (wailers)
  • love and affection (wailers)
  • maga dog (wailers)
  • dancing shoes (wailers)
  • one love (wailers)
BEATLES
  • you’ve got to hide your love away
  • all you need is love norwegian wood
  • eleanor rigby
  • nowhere man
BOSSA NOVA
  • desafinado
  • one note samba
  • o pato
  • samba de orfeo
  • garota de ipanema (girl from ipanema)
  • manha de carnaval
FUNK
  • pass the peas (the jb’s )
  • the grunt ( the jb’ s)
  • i got you (james brown)
  • sex machine (james brown)
  • fever
  • cissy strut (the meters)
  • hey pocky way (the meters)
  • jambalaya
  • iko iko
AFRICAN
  • african marketplace (dollar brand)
  • chisa ( ” )
  • msunduza ( ” )

Biography

The Sousaphonics is a quintet from New South Wales who present music from styles that have found their most prominent expression in the Carnivals of the world.

The Sousaphonics want to capture the collective spirit that gives rise to these festivities and believe the ubiquitous nature of their instruments means they are played the world over in many different styles ranging from Nigerian afro-beat, Mardi Gras and Carnivale marches and sambas to circus music and Balkan folk.

The Sousaphonics appropriate music that is both uplifting, appeals in first listening and is inherently adaptable for active audience-participation’s. The festival spirit is about creating a continuity between audience and band.

Festivals require participation for their success, and their various musics reflect that. That core of accessibility and the joy of celebration through creation of music is what the Sousaphonics aim to present.