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Outdoor Performance and Memorial Procession at Car Free Sunday in Inglewood

Come to Inglewood on Sunday for the pedestrian street celebration. We're performing in front of Spolumbo's at 2PM and 3PM. We're playing songs from our upcoming "The Alberta Sessions EP" in a true "street band" format. We are also leading a procession New Orlean's style to celebrate and honour musicians lost in 2023, including Marvin Kee, Ian Tyson, Stacie Lynn Roper, Dan McKinnon, Andy Sparacino and Dean Clarke. Bring your instrument or your voice as we'll be handing out some sheet music so you can join us.

We love street party brass music, we love NOLA-style music, and we loved so many of these recently departed musicians. It's going to be great to honour them in a celebration of music and their lives. And, we'll be honouring living Alberta female songwriters too, with some of our other songs.

The street party is from 11:30 AM to 5:00PM.

But, stay after! Our friends
The Brass Tactics are playing Ironwood in the evening!

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PS Someone tagged the Brass Tactic's show with "Alberta's Best Brass Band". Ha Ha. Maybe there will be a throw-down like back in the days of Kid Ory and Buddy Bolden! Someone's trying to fire up a rivalry? We won't have it, unless it's one of those fun rivalries like the one with your little brother who you secretly love.

Our First Wedding

Delirium street.party.brass is proud to announce our debut as a wedding band! Thank you so much to Bri and Shelley for the inspiration and encouragement, they have been instrumental in so much of our journey for the past few months. Jace and Kevin killed it on Vocals! Contact us if you want something unique and special at your wedding.

Photos from EV Junction

Check out the photos from EV Junction in June.

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Thursday dPlus reveal Thursday 5PM with JASU at EV Junction

We’re debuting our dPlus Horn Band at East Village Junction Thursday 22nd starting 5PM. Pay what you can. Come support the band and the amazing new outdoor venue in the shadow of the King Eddy, the St Louis hotel and the National Music Centre. JASU opens, then Delirium, then dPlus. Their may be some Clash and Cat Empire songs.

In advance of the occasion we made one of our 2015 Live Videos available as a sneak peak! The audio is undergoing final mixing/mastering now by the incomparable Dewi Wood from Infinite Loop for our upcoming EP release, but we wanted to give you this sneak preview!



Hope to see you on Thursday!

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Brassy Spring in Eau Claire May 11

It’s John’s birthday on May 11! Join the band after work for a little brass action.

Eau Claire, 5:30ish

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Peace Bridge Photo Shoot

Today (Thursday 16th) at 6PM we’ll be gathering at the Peace Bridge to shoot some photos of the band, with the new instrumentation. The sousaphone will be prominent. We’ll be playing some tunes, because the photographer @gerrypdavid likes to shoot "live" scenes. Please come and be part of the background crowd, we’d love to have you!

Playlist:

1) House of the Rising Sun
2) Don’t Wait Up
3) St James Infirmary Blues


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Busking and Rocking4Dollars open mic today

Calgary, today at 5:30 PM we’re going to try out our brand new busking license and The City’s brand new busking regulations.

Catch a couple of songs at the Centre Street LRT sometime shortly after 5PM, we’ll assemble and warm up there. Then, we’ll claim one of the four "Busk Stops" on Stephen Avenue, set up the amp for Margo, and entertain you with some great brass-rock songs. Ask about our new Mr Doubler to throw out the bass. And Ron has some fun drum tricks up his sleeve.

Busk Stops

Busy at 5:30PM? No problem! We’re invited to Rocking4Dollars at Broken City. $3 cover! 10 bands, each plays 3 songs. Then we get to spin the wheel for prizes! Loads of fun, and a great way to drink beer and meet people. Starts at 8PM.

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Our first $1000 Rockin' 4 Dollars at Broken City! Check out the lineup.

TuZday
Deliriumßabeours
Northern Reverie
Triophobia
Trashed Bandicoot
The Jabronies
Sit Still
The Ringwalds
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Bands, spread the word and let's pack the place.

Posted by Rockin' 4 Dollar$ Calgary - Every Wednesday on Monday, March 21, 2016


Come out after work, for those few people in downtown Calgary who still have jobs. The rest of you, you have no excuse. Free music.

Winter Parade Thursday 11 Feb

Delirium fans, we have been asked by our friends in Freak Motif to join in a pre Juno winter parade. It’s this Thursday, Feb 11, starting at Olympic Plaza. Noon and 5PM. Watch the Facebook Event Page for updates. Delirium songs at noon or 5pm or (probably) both, watch twitter for details.


In the spirit of Mardi Gras and the upcoming Juno awards, we are inviting all of YOU to join us in a parade through downtown Calgary! It's happening TWO TIMES: Thurs Feb 11
12-1pm
and
5-6pm

Starting and ending at Olympic Plaza. If you don't find us, follow the noise... Join us, bring your drum, bring your art, wear a costume, come create something weird.

Email frkmtf@gmail.com for more info.



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Winter Parade 2015

Free admission to anyone who can video a whole song on their smartphone!

Thursday 27 is Pay What You Can cover charge but we’re pleased to offer 100% Free Admission to anyone who records a video of an entire song and then sends it to us using Dropbox or whatever system we’ll figure out later. We should have that smokey beautiful orange light as the sun sets on the band.... dreamy! Continue reading...

August 27 at ContainR: Delirium with Get It Funk

Ladies and Gentlemen, on August 27 we will be performing at ContainR at the Music and Market Square series. This is Outdoor Urban Friendly Music, ideally suited to Delirium. Get It Funk will be joining us. Show is 6PM or so to 8:30 PM.

John from Delirium is helping to organize the series. Many Thursdays this summer feature different music genres, and people are coming out with their family, their kids, their parents, their sweetie, their dog, and/or their dancing shoes. On August 27 come out and catch Brass and Funk.

Bring cash, it’s pay-what-you-can. (Put small bills in one easily accessible pocket, and throw a few extra $20s or $50s in a secret pocket in case you have the best time of your life. If you’re having a hard time making rent this month, just bring your smile.)

We have some new tunes that you will love!

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Free island concert on Soundcloud

News: tonight’s planned show at ContainR with our friends FreakMotif and Danielle French has been postponed to next week July 22 because of rain.

Throw back Thursday to last week when it was hot and sunny. We recorded last weeks island show! With an iPhone and a fancy stereo mic.

It’s here on Soundcloud. Please have a listen by pushing the orange triangle button below and give us feedback.

Send us any photos or videos you took please!

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Tonight 8th June Peace Bridge Island Free Impromptu Show

Tonight, 7:30 PM, we’re going to take over this little island by the Peace Bridge and play some music. Hope to see you there! It’s going to be a beautiful night. Check the Facebook Event page or Twitter for last minute info.

July 18 UPDATE:


The show was recorded with an iPhone and a fancy stereo mic, and it is on Soundcloud:



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Sunday June 7 Peace Bridge

People, we’re planning a show on Sunday for an hour at The Peace Bridge. You know, the place in our videos. After 3PM.

Watch comments below for last minute info and twitter for timing.





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The Heavyweights are coming to town! June 19. Buy tickets. Great brass band from Toronto.

Photo and next up for busking


Thanks to Csaba Toth Abony for taking this nice picture of us on Monday:

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We’re planning on Busking on June 9. After work, Peace Bridge. Put it in your calendar please! Meanwhile we’ll be mixing, rehearsing, recording.

Drummer Ron is playing in The Great American Trailer Park Musical from Cappuccino Musical Theatre running until June 6.

Summer video "Believe In You" is out

Today we’re releasing our "Believe In You" video. Stephen Love, a film student who we know and love, hung out with us this summer and filmed many of our fun adventures, in Chinatown, at the Peace Bridge, at the Stampede Hangover Picnic, in the Bow River, and on 17th Avenue in the rain. He edited into a great compilation of us having fun playing outdoors in Calgary.

Thank you to everyone who made our summer so great. All the fans, the passersby, the people who booked us for festivals, the Lemon Bucket Orkestra and ContainR, friends and family, supportive businesses and communities, etc. etc.

This is your city, this is our love song for you and Calgary. Enjoy!

Lets do it again Aug 2 at Inglewood Sunfest

Thanks to Open Streets Calgary we’ll be hitting the bicycle-powered stage again at Inglewood Sunfest. Sunfest is noon to 5PM on August 2nd, we’ll be performing at 4PM. Please come out and hear us! We had so much fun at the Stampede Hangover Picnic the last time we partnered with Open Streets Calgary, we can’t wait to do it again!

There are some great street performers at Sunfest, so come early, and stay late. Hope to see you!

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Sharing the Gazebo with the Street People

On Friday, as promised, we hit 17th Avenue to play some music. It was raining pretty hard, so all the people who had indoor places to take shelter were missing. However, there were some street people taking shelter in the Gazebo. They really seemed to like the music, and took the dancing pretty seriously!

We love playing for people who take dancing seriously! With or without a beer-in-hand. Thank you! Check out the video below.

Lemon Bucket Orkestra coming to play with us!

There are a lot of fun things coming up on the Delirium SPB schedule!.


Most importantly, the amazing Lemon Bucket Orkestra are coming to Calgary! We have a show scheduled with them on July 15. It will be an outdoor show, a Stampede Hangover Picnic. There will be bicycles, a parade, dancing, etc. etc. etc. Save the date July 15 and watch this space for details! This will be a pay-what-you-can event, not a free event, to support the 16 piece LBO on their Canada Tour.

Other dates:
June 27: Free Impromptu Busking Show location TBA
July 1: Video Shoot Day and Free Show in Chinatown at the Street Festival
Calgary Stampede July 3 to July 13. Lots of busking! LBO arrive July 10. We have country tunes!

Please use Twitter or our Mailing List to stay informed, so that you don’t miss any of this! (Facebook won’t show you all of our posts...)


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