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      Heads Up!

      If you’re looking for the group formerly known as Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, you've come to the right place! We recently changed our name. Find out more below.

       

    • YOUTH CLIMATE STRIKE 2019

      Photo by Greg Cook

      Crash Detroit 2018

      Festival of Street Bands

      Photo by Peter Mundt

       

       

       

       

       

      Families for Justice as Healing - video

      Covideo Fundraiser July 2020

       

      HONK! Festival

       

      Somerville, MA

      Founding members of the 1st HONK! Festival

      Photo by Philip Seger

      RIVER ROLL & STROLL

      Community Street Festival

       

      Boston Women's March

      Photo by Greg Cook

       

      HONK! RIO

       

       

       

       

       

      Youth Climate Strike

      Supporting their fight for a livable future!

      Photo by Greg Cook

      Somerville Porchfest

      A citywide community music making event

       

      CLIMATE MARCH DC

      Photo by the New York Times

    • MISSION 

      The Good Trouble Brass Band is a large, not-for-profit, “raucous, stomp-your-foot-and-belt-out-the-choruses” activist New Orleans-style street band based in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our mission is to fight for social justice causes and support community events while having fun and spreading joy through our music.

       

      We are also a part of the organizing force behind the HONK!Festival of activist street bands that takes place every October in Somerville’s Davis Square.

    • BAND NEWS

       

      20th Anniversary and Name Change Ceremony
      September 4, 2023
      On the occasion of our 20th Anniversary in 2023, the Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band decided to change our name to the GOOD TROUBLE BRASS BAND. Here’s how we got from there to here. The band was founded in 2003 by an ad hoc group of musicians who joined with members of Bread...
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    • UPCOMING GIGS

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      First Night Parade
      December 31, 2023
      SMEA Stand-out
      December 18, 2023
      Workers Circle Chanukah Party
      December 10, 2023
    • SOCIAL NEWS

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