Nelson Eubanks

Award

• Jazz Road Creative Residencies Grant
• $40,000
• 2023 recipient

Location & Dates

• Residency: New Orleans, Louisiana, fall 2023
• Award location: Tulsa, Oklahoma

Project Overview

This residency will reconnect Melodious Thunk's documentary crew with TBC Brass Band after a 20-year separation brought on by Hurricane Katrina. By comparing recordings of TBC in their infancy as a band (2002–2005), the project explores their evolution over a 20-year period. During this collaboration they will produce and document a Second Line parade and series of live performances in places significant to African-American history in and around New Orleans.

About Melodious Thunk

Melodious Thunk began before the hurricane as a community project in the Crescent City by a small group of New Orleans artists hoping to record the Sunday 2nd Line Parades. Over the years they've grown as they've ventured around the world into other sonic communities. They immerse in the culture and bring the full spectrum of rhythms through audio, video, photography and interactive web content. Their mission is to be a bridge between the music of the street and audiences by fully documenting both rising artists and master musicians playing authentic, unfiltered rhythms in juke joints, at music festivals, in their homes, their corners, their bars, on their porches, and great moving parades and processions.