Videos!

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's Mardi Gras Party, February 21, 2020 at Regattabar, Cambridge, MA, USA. Performance of "The Skunk is D'Funk'd" (Ken Field, Conical Music/BMI), with Dave Harris/bone, Jerry Sabatini/tpt, Ken Field/alto, Tom Hall/tenor, Phil Neighbors/drms, Blake Newman/bass, with guest Amadee Castenell/tenor. Video by Cecily Miller.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Mardi Gras show, Feb 13, 2018, at Regattabar, Cambridge, MA, with special guests Amadee Castenell (flute/tenor sax) & Henri Smith (vox). Video by Cecily Miller.

Ken Field-sax&leader, Dave Harris-tbn&tuba, Phil Neighbors-drm, Blake Newman-bass, Jerry Sabatini-tpt, Tom Hall-sax

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble sold out show for Mardi Gras, Feb 28, 2017, at Regattabar, Cambridge, MA, with special guests Charles Neville (tenor sax) & Henri Smith (vox). Video by Joanne Kaliontzis.

Ken Field-sax&leader, Dave Harris-tbn&tuba, Phil Neighbors-drm, Blake Newman-bass, Jerry Sabatini-tpt, Tom Hall-sax

Sunday, May 22, 8pm
Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Alex Smith (elec bass) Blake Newman (acoustic bass) Joey Lefitz (drums) Kenny Wollesen (drums) Alex Asher (trombone) Josh Roseman
(trombone) Daniel Heath (trombone) Jerry Sabatini (trumpet) Ken Field (alto sax)
Boston saxophonist & composer Ken Field (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Willie Loco Alexander, Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Bridgman/
Packer Dance, Sesame St) brings his improvisational brass band, with releases on innova & Cuneiform, to NYC for their first area
performance in 2 years. This special collaboration with guests Wollesen and Roseman et al was recorded, and appears on the release "Live Snakes". Avant second line funk.

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble plays for the people in Somerville.

Animated characters with miniature masks for heads march across the screen carrying numbers, to the mardi gras music of The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble. Kids' voices by Ben Kusiak, Emma Child, and Jeff Rovanelli. This segment also appears on the Sesame Street videotapes "One Two Three, Count With Me" & "The Great Numbers Game: The Best of Sesame Street's Classic Cartoons" in case you want to march around your living room on your own schedule... This song is available on the Ken Field CD Pictures of Motion, and on the CD "Year of the Snake" by the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble.

Led by saxophonist Ken Field, Boston's costumed funk/street beat improvisational brass band performs a unique blend of original and traditional New Orleans brass band music.

Led by saxophonist Ken Field, Boston's costumed funk/street beat improvisational brass band performs a unique blend of original and traditional New Orleans brass band music.

Led by saxophonist Ken Field, Boston's costumed funk/street beat improvisational brass band performs a unique blend of original and traditional New Orleans brass band music.

"Soul Power" from Year of the Snake

"Soul Makossa" from Year of the Snake

"I Want That Sound!" from I Want That Sound!

"A Call For All Demons" from Year of the Snake

"Slippery When Wet" from I Want That Sound!

"Discoveries" from I Want That Sound!

"Breakdown Part I" from Live Snakes

"Cassandra 4" from Live Snakes

"Central Square" from Year of the Snake

"El Choclo" from Year of the Snake

"Iko Iko/Aicho" from Year of the Snake

"Roohane" from I Want That Sound!

"Higgins Hollow" from I Want That Sound!

"Slots" from Live Snakes

"Year of the Snake" from Year of the Snake

"Just Walk Closer" from I Want That Sound!

"John's Jailhouse Blues" from I Want That Sound!

"Rock of Ages" from Live Snakes

"Cassandra 5" from Live Snakes

"For Karen" from Live Snakes

"I'll Fly Away" from Live Snakes

"I Got It" from Year of the Snake (video by Ned Resnikoff)