On Wednesday, October 28, we'll be broadcasting a performance from the TBC Brass Band, live from the Young Leadership Council of New Orleans' (YLC) "One Book One New Orleans" finale party.

The YLC is a nonprofit organization for young professionals; their motto is "Fostering Leadership through Service."  The YLC believes that future leaders of our community must first learn in order to serve it.  One of the YLC's projects is a community literacy project, "One Book One New Orleans" (OBONO).  Each year, OBONO chooses one book and encourages everyone in New Orleans to read the same book at the same time.  We also work to make that book accessible to those in New Orleans who would typically be excluded from a community of readers.  Learn more about the project here: https://www.facebook.com/onebookoneneworleans.

This year, OBONO chose New Orleans Boom and Blackout: 100 Days in America's Coolest Hot Spot by Brian Boyles. The book, which chronicles the 100 days leading up to Super Bowl XLVII in February 2013, reveals a little-known side of New Orleans and raises questions about how we as a city want the world to perceive us as the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches. New Orleans Boom and Blackout also encourages New Orleanians to think critically about what has changed and what has remained the same in this city that we are all proud to call home. An entire chapter of the book is dedicated to the TBC Brass Band. You can learn more about them in this 2013 article from OffBeat: http://www.offbeat.com/articles/still-to-be-continued-tbc-brass-band-talks-bourbon-street-exile/