Sponsored by the Canadian Brass themselves, the internationally known performers are asking fans to post videos of their favorite CB music. Some are just plain strange.
The Canadian Brass have been around for many years. Over the decades their members have changed, but from the very beginning the group has mixed fun and frivolity in with their amazing musical talents. Having performed everything from classical to contemporary and from the Can-Can to country western, the Canadian Brass has come up with a new way to get a little audience participation.
By going to the Canadian Brass web site you will find a link to a special YouTube group in which fans are invited to produce and upload their own renditions of any of the Canadian Brass' repertoire. Current submissions run the gamut from serious to silly. In one video, a man plays a very respectable performance of "She's Leaving Home," however the venue leaves a lot to be desired. I have heard that bathrooms are often some of the most acoustically perfect rooms in a house, so maybe that was his reasoning.
In another video, two youngsters "lipsync," to the Flight of the Bumblebee, while in another, some latin based musicians jam out in the back seat of a moving car to the strains of Bach's Toccatta and Fugue. A personal favorite, however, would have to be the stirring Ode To Joy performance by two gentlemen on the "Nose Flute."
To participate in this novel little contest, simply visit the Canadian Brass web site and follow the links to the YouTube group page titled "DoTheCanadianBrass." So far as I can tell there is no prize for the best video, aside from being forever immortalized as a Canadian Brass groupie.
