The Dirty Dozen Brass Band brings "The Big Easy" to Salmon, Idaho for a Mardi Gras party, complete with a sampling of regional food and that famous New Orleans music, at the Salmon Elks Hall.

New Orleans music ushered in the 20th century with the wail of a joyful noise: collective improvisation, syncopated rhythms, eclectic stylizations and an infectious joie de vivre that was exhilarating. Indeed, thanks to New Orleans musicians such as King Oliver, Jellyroll Morton, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, and above all, Louis Armstrong, the 1920s became known as the "jazz age."

Just like early jazz was an amalgamation of the music of its era, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band's musical revolution was actually a reintroduction of the basic eclecticism that made jazz the most dynamic music of the 20th century. Founded in April, 1977, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band created a musical revolution in New Orleans. For over seventy-five years, the brass band tradition existed largely unchanged until this forward-looking, bebop-influenced ensemble completely changed both the style and the repertoire of brass band music.