Low Down Brass Band

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Embodying the vibrant musical culture of Chicago, the LowDown Brass Band is a unique brass ensemble that weaves the rhythm of the streets with conscious hip-hop, reggae and soul music. The band tours relentlessly and has performed on the most extraordinary stages including Electric Forest, Bonnaroo, Summer Camp, Alaska Salmon Fest, Montreal Jazz Fest and a five-week EU/UK tour in 2025 with Australian band Cat Empire.

Over the past four years, LowDown has been relentlessly active, releasing three albums - "The Reel Sessions", "LowDown Nights" and "$itizens of the World" - that showcase their unique sound and continue to push the boundaries of their genre. Drawing on their talent and unconventional style, LowDown Brass Band continues to forge their own path, defying convention and charting their own course in the ever-changing musical landscape.

An event organized by prime entertainment GmbH.
Tour VA: FKP Scorpio Konzertproduktionen GmbH

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Venue:

Stadtgarten

The first concert in the newly built Stadtgarten concert hall in the mid-1980s launched a program unlike anything Germany had seen: an independent, artistically driven concert series devoted to contemporary improvised music. It was guided neither by attendance figures nor by public subsidies, yet it guaranteed musicians minimum fees and was run on professional terms. The conditions mattered just as much: an acoustically optimized, street-level concert space offering a strong setting for audiences and performers alike. Operations were financed through the adjoining hospitality business, the Stadtgarten restaurant and beer garden, a model that drew attention well beyond Germany.

Today the Stadtgarten Köln ranks among Europe's internationally recognized venues for contemporary and improvised music. The American magazine Down Beat features it regularly in its listings; it has received Germany's federal APPLAUS venue program award several times, including "Venue of the Year" in 2016, followed by the German Jazz Prize in the same category in 2022. More than 400 events across the full spectrum of contemporary music now take place there each year. Its international standing rests above all on the high proportion of demanding, experimental programming.

A programming mission of this kind depends on reliable public support. The venue's 30th anniversary in September 2016 opened that prospect: through a partnership between the City of Cologne and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, programming work is being substantially strengthened, and from 2017 onward the Stadtgarten Köln is being developed step by step into a "European Center for Jazz and Contemporary Music" – with the goal of becoming one of Europe's leading music centers.

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