‘It goes right back to the beginning, all the way to slavery.’ Bennie Pete of the Hot 8 on music as a remedy for grief
Don Rowe speaks to band leader and sousaphone player Bennie Pete of New Orleans’ Hot 8 brass band on the power of music to put back the pieces when it all falls apart. Since 1995, three members of the Hot 8 Brass Band have been lost, victims of gun violence. One, Joe ‘Shotgun Joe’ Williams, was … Read more