BRASS LASSIE, a bold trad band based in the Twin Cities of St. Paul/Minneapolis, combines traditional tunes, songs and style with dazzling modern horn lines, sparking their own genre of eclectic, remarkable music. The ensemble performs extraordinary takes on Scottish, Irish and French music, traditional and new, featuring a powerful 4-piece horn section, a terrific rhythm section, fiddle, flutes, pipes and vocals with two dancers from the Flying Foot Forum. Their smart, joyous horn arrangements are by top-notch jazz arranger Peter Enblom, plus a couple of great ensemble arrangements from Dr. David Milne. Brass Lassie is: Laura MacKenzie (founder/director), wooden flutes, whistles, concertina, Scottish smallpipes, voice Mary Vanorny - fiddle, vocals Patrice Pakiz - piano Michael Bissonnette - percussion Gary Rue - bass Pete Enblom - (arranger, horn section director), tenor trombone Bek Shuholm - trumpet Tricia Lerohl - French horn Dave Budimir - bass trombone Joe Chvala and Karla Grotting - dance, from the Flying Foot Forum