I'm Glenn Richards.

And this is WUFT Amplified, showcasing some of the best local music for your listening p On this episode we have got a gr in store for you tonight.

If you missed them at WUFTs Fanfares and Fireworks, we've got Sooza Brass Band featuring Bianca Maesa on sousap Adrienne Widener and Ryan Hall o Ryan Gamberino on the tenor saxophone, and Brian Burwell on trombone and Austin DiVito on With their song “Bananaland ”, here's Sooza Brass Band on WUFT Amplified.

Come one, come all to the greate on planet Earth, Bananaland!

Ladies and gentlemen, we are Sooza Brass Band and we will be your guide through the park tonight.

Thank you all so very much for being with us here on WUFT.

We are Sooza Brass Band, this is “Bananaland ”, and here we go!

That's “Bella Ciao ” from Sooza Brass Band on WUFT Amplified.

“Don't Stop Now ” before that and started things off with “Ban So Sooza Brass Brand, tell us how the band came togeth Thank you so much, Glenn.

Sooza Brass Band initially forme as the result of six friends tha wanted to join together and make as part of the UF School of Musi We're all classically trained mu but we found that we wanted to do something a little bit different.

We wanted to take our creative r in a slightly different directio and what came from that was a very, very interestin eclectic mix of brass band music, metal music, disco music, and the unique pers of all six of the members.

Tell us about this next one.

Up next is “Gunk Palace ”.

This is an interesting name that actually takes influence from a place that is very specia to the history of Sooza Brass Ba There was a period of time during the pandemic in 2020 when our drummer, Austin DiVito, was actually flipping a house.

The name itself comes from the f that when he initially adopted this fixer upper, we called it t pit because it was- if you had s Oh, boy, it was very gunky.

It was- it was a messed up place But over time, with a lot of swe tears, blood and brass music filling its hall it slowly became much, much nice than its original envisionment and it became the “Gunk Palace.

” All right, well, let's hear it.

Now playing “Gunk Palace ”, here's Sooza Bras on WUFT Amplified.

That's “Elysium ” from Sooza Brass Band on WUFT Am “Bite ” ahead of that and they started off with “Gunk We've got one more from you guys and I know you guys write a lot of your own but this next one's a cover.

What's the story behind that?

So our form of music, brass band music, is something that kind of grew up in New Orle in the early 1900s.

That art form is sort of fallen by the wayside, but has been revived by a couple in New York, actually, and they tour the entire Eastern and eventually it made its way d to us here in Florida.

And this song is called “Brookly sort of in remembrance of the wonderful place where thi took off for the second time.

All right.

Well, playing us out tonight, here's “Brooklyn ” from Sooza Brass Band on WUFT Am Sooza Brass Band, everybody.

That is a track called “Brooklyn Thank you, Sooza Brass Band.

Thank you all for watching.

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