The 2015 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival line-up has been announced and The Soul Rebels are thrilled to be part of it once again! They’re playing the festival on May 2nd. The video announcement was released today and features music from The Soul Rebels! Stage and time TBA. The Soul Rebels will also be performing at The Saenger Theatre on April 24th with Gov’t Mule, tickets are available on Friday Jan. 23rd.
Jazz Fest tickets are on sale now: HERE
The Soul Rebels would like to wish you a Happy Holiday! This year was such a blast! We toured Australia for the second year in a row, China for the first time, played
Nola Jazz & Heritage Fest with Big Freedia and String Cheese Incident, played a few shows with Joey Bada$$, shared festival stages with The Allman Brothers Band, Kanye West, Disclosure, Dave Matthews, Gary Clark Jr., John Mayer and Jack White, and we just finished a 5 city tour with Trombone Shorty.
We have a lot in store for 2015 including releasing a new record, touring with Umphrey’s McGee, playing our annual Brooklyn Bowl NYC 3-night residency with special guests, and more! A select number of tour dates have been announced in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Florida, Texas, and New York. Tickets and tour schedule are available HERE!
The gift of music is HERE! Here’s a selection of live songs we premiered with media outlets this Fall 2014 in support of our “Song Of The Week” 10 week campaign.
“Bo Money” ft Galactic premiered by RELIX MAGAZINE
Talib Kweli’s “I Try” premiered by OKAYPLAYER
“Karate” ft Galactic premiered by OFFBEAT
“Rebel Rock” premiered by REVIVE MUSIC
Michael Jackson’s “Off The Wall” premiered by JAMBASE
Just announced! We’ll be doing some select dates with Umphrey’s McGee in April, 2015.
Tickets go on sale FRIDAY. Our full touring schedule and link to buy tickets is HERE
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be doing some shows with Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue this Winter! Tickets and Schedule for all shows is available HERE!
To celebrate our fall tour, we’re excited to offer fans a free song download every week on each Wednesday via a different media outlet for the duration of the tour ending in December! We’re giving away 10 free song downloads in total to be available on 10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3 & 12/10.
The free downloads feature live songs from The Soul Rebel archive. Some of the tracks will also feature special guests!
Click HERE for our Fall tour dates
This live version of “Karate” was recorded while on tour with Galactic in 2012.
An oldie but goodie, this version of “Start It Off Right” was recorded live in New Orleans in 2013.
This live version of Cameo’s “Talkin’ Out The Side Of Your Neck” was recorded on New Year’s Eve 2012 in New Orleans at DBA.
This version of The Soul Rebels classic “Rebel Rock” was recorded live in New Orleans in 2013.
This version of Michael Jackson’s “Off The Wall” was recorded live while on tour in California in 2014.
This version of The Soul Rebels original “Nothin But A Party” mashed up with Outkast’s “Spottieottiedopaliscious” was recorded live in 2014 while on tour in Washington DC.
While on the tour in Georgia in the Fall 2014, for fun The Soul Rebels composed a brass arrangement of Talib Kweli’s “I Try”. At sound check that day in Atlanta, they ran through the song for the very first time and recorded it through the venue’s board which is what you hear today. First and only time they ever played it.
Recorded live on tour in 2013, get down with our live version of Shaggy’s “It Wasn’t Me” mashed up with a Soul Rebels original!
Recorded live at Brooklyn Bowl in 2013, our brassed up version of Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish” features our dear friend John Medeski (of Medeski Martin & Wood) on organ. John’s solo is killer!
This version of “Boe Money” with Soul Rebels x Galactic was recorded live while the two bands toured together in 2012.
https://soundcloud.com/thesoulrebels/boe-money-w-galactic-dec-10?in=thesoulrebels/sets/song-a-week
In its 16 year history, Voodoo has hosted over 2,000 artists & attracted over 300,000 music fans. From world renowned artists such as Pearl Jam, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Eminem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tiesto, Nine Inch Nails, Muse, KISS, Calvin Harris, Deadmau5, The Black Keys, Neil Young, Green Day, Snoop Dogg, Duran Duran, R.E.M., My Chemical Romance, 50 Cent and 311 to New Orleans’ own musicians including The Original Meters, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Rebirth Brass Band, and Dr. John among many more.
Voodoo takes place every year in New Orleans’ historic City Park, amid lush lagoons, bayous and one of the largest collections of mature oak trees in the world in the city about which Bob Dylan once famously stated “There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.”
This year The Soul Rebels join the ritual! Tickets are available HERE now
The Soul Rebels will return to Brooklyn Bowl in Brooklyn, NY for a special one-night show on Friday, August 15 at 8:00PM(following two sold-out engagements at the venue in 2013 and early 2014).
Tickets are $15 and available for purchase via Ticketfly .
The Soul Rebels appearance at Brooklyn Bowl is part of extensive national and international tour activity this summer, including a highly anticipated debut at San Francisco’s Outside Lands scheduled on Friday, August 8 (performing on the main stage that will also feature Chromeo, Disclosure, and Kanye West on the same day).
NEW SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT: And this is a big one! We’re excited to announce that we’re returning to San Francisco, this time for Outside Lands Music Festival!! The lineup is RIDICULOUS!! Kanye West, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Killers, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis!!
Tickets are ON SALE NOW! Don’t miss the Rebelution at Outside Lands!! www.sfoutsidelands.com/tickets
Tuesday March 18th The Soul Rebels were featured in the episode “Moon Over Bourbon Street” of The CW’s ‘The Originals’.
In the episode Elijah makes a bold move to regain control over the Quarter and receives an intriguing offer of support from a beautiful woman who belongs to a powerful New Orleans family. Meanwhile, the Mikaelsons throw a lavish party in an attempt to bring the warring factions of the city together, but a vicious fight threatens the evening.
Watch the Full episode here: http://www.cwtv.com/cw-video/the-originals/moon-over-bourbon-street-preview/?play=e8c2bde3-fff2-4ba9-8ff7-6f1d4d3dda01
The Soul Rebels have won The Best Contemporary Brass Band at the 2014 Big Easy Awards. This is the fifth win since 1999. The Big Easy Awards are the premiere Music, Theater & Classical Arts Awards in New Orleans. All proceeds benefit the Foundation for the Entertainment Development & Education. The 2014 Music awards took place on April 21st at Harrah’s Theater.
