PS 26 - A New Orleans Portrait
Mark Rapp & Soda City Brass Band

Acclaimed trumpeter Mark Rapp and the Soda City Brass Band present Celebrations & Lamentations: A New Orleans Portrait, a powerful concert experience exploring the emotional depth, cultural roots, and irresistible energy of New Orleans jazz.

 

Set inside Charleston’s historic Circular Congregational Church, this Piccolo Spoletto performance brings together second-line grooves, soulful trumpet, collective improvisation, blues feeling, gospel echoes, and vivid storytelling. The result is a moving musical journey through a tradition where brass bands lift the spirit, gather the community, and transform grief into joy.

 

Lively, soulful, and deeply human, Celebrations & Lamentations is New Orleans jazz as both festival and prayer — music for dancing, remembering, healing, and rejoicing.