"Bellamina" and "Variety Stomp" - Tuba Skinny

Tuba Skinny closes out their set at The French Quarter Festival 2017 with "Bellamina" and the crowd demands an encore, so they finish with "Variety Stomp". This year Tuba Skinny played on the Jackson Square Stage which features the more well known acts, rather than the Traditional Jazz Stage.

[@francescopellegrini9137]

Can someone please help me with the lyrics of Bellamina? I'm italian and can't figure it out completely :). Thanks!

[@JamesSterling]

Francesco, I posted the lyrics on a more recent video of "Bellamina" here (see the comments): kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXbFqGaYp5V3aqM

[@southernloff1494]

Unless you are Cajun, or familiar with the patois', just enjoy the music.

[@JamesSterling]

@@southernloff1494 The song is Bahamian, not Cajun. Written in the islands during Prohibition about the rum runner ships based in the Bahamas.

[@southernloff1494]

@@JamesSterling Well golly! Guess I should have used my headphones, and listened more closely.

[@francescopellegrini9137]

@@JamesSterling Thank you very much!!

[@stevegrooms1142]

Isn't it astonishing how this band can work without sheet music, keeping all those complex arrangements in their heads? They have KZbin videos for several hundred tunes. That's a lot to keep stored in the brain.

[@wimwestra2705]

We are lovers of Tuba Skinny, beautiful music !!!!

[@87sailorgirl]

They are so damn good it's no wonder they are on the 'big stage' and an over flow crowd screams for an encore. And they knock that off with verve ... superb instrumentalists each, stunning ensemble work. They "lure" us to play pieces over and over .....

[@sokay2laugh512]

People start yelling out requests... Me at midnight next to my snoozing lady, “Biscuit Roller! “ Tomorrow I’ll be hearing that I blurt out Biscuit Roller in my sleep. 😂

[@cottlevillemayor]

They will eventually be on national tv.

[@johnnybx3254]

Fantastic! Thanks!

[@alvidovich2554]

You are a fun group Tuba Skinny!

[@LPS333]

That´s Jazz !!

[@cobraferrariwars]

Very beautiful.

[@micklavo9204]

Shaye Cohn and all Tuba Skinny you are brilliant, wish you one day to see you in Australia. I will be the first to help you in it!

[@jwfortenberry2640]

Y’all popped on utube on Friday and I can’t quit listening. Great group.

[@JamesSterling]

JW, subscribe to my channel, There will be more Tuba Skinny to come plus I have about 100 already uploaded on my channel.

[@williamsantangelo]

It's been 8 months and listening ain't stopped yet and never will LOVE Em whole holhearttedly!!

[@richardriley4415]

I love Tuba Skinny, Thanks.

[@valentuss]

Warming my heart so strongly!

[@emiliolopezify]

Shaye creates real magic on "Bellamina" 😊 wonderful

[@Django44]

That's a great early-jazz trap set - superb playing!

[@johnsturdy5143]

She is definitely I/C bless Her

[@connieclemow4273]

Absolutely super job ,thanks again James Sterling!!! So love this band..

[@elipsis000]

...from strenth to strenth...just keep together sweetness's...

[@tricoccum]

This is the best band New Orleans has ever produced. Buddy Bolden and Alphonse Picou would be proud of y'all!

[@robbinsonhatol1923]

... best since jazz began? .... your kidding right? ............. 😐

[@robbinsonhatol1923]

.... the best band since jazz began? ....... your kidding right? ............😐

[@maengjupil]

This is Korea. One day we will go to New Orleans to see your band.

[@paulmilsom1092]

UK here I hope you make it there.... Best Wishes...

[@ianlambert8034]

@@paulmilsom1092 It was omy bucket list for this year(2020) but the Coronavirus epidemic won't let me travel! Needless to say they are on my bucket list for next year!

[@JamesSterling]

Someone in the audience requested "Ice Man" and Shaye replied "that's not a family friendly song!" That's true.

[@daveyewart4289]

we did this last week hope someone took a video it was really well received at at street band event . all thanks to your video

[@patrickyoung3503]

I just love this band fine musicians all I would to go to New Orleans to taste the sound Thanks for posting.

[@iLLuSiiioNz]

They did Ice Man at the Maison On their last night in NO before they took off for the 2018 Euro Tour. .Needless to say , it brought down the House ! TS rules !.

[@otpkd]

Thanks for telling us; I couldn't catch what had been asked for.

[@cottlevillemayor]

Thank you for the video.

[@thomastimlin1724]

Damn listen to that crowd! when they play an outdoor crowd going crazy like this, they really need to step out front at the end and take a bow together rather than turn their backs and walk away. They deserve that moment of recognition , yet so modest.

[@JamesSterling]

When they first started playing the French Quarter Festival they appeared at the much smaller Traditional Jazz Stage. They have become so popular that they have moved to the Jackson Square Stage which allows for a much larger audience. I have never seen them take a bow and this is the only time I have heard them do an encore, probably because the announcer asked for it.

[@petejackson98]

Le tout ensemble - brilliant. Pete Jackson, UK

[@gordonbainbridge8371]

This video makes it clear that one of Greg Sherman's major contributions is swing. Even when the rumba tempo is fine for the horns but difficult for the singer, Greg makes it happen.

[@liamredmill9293]

Good jam, medly, almost heard colipso, superb jam, really appreciate, thank you for all sharing for free, Liam from london

[@daveyewart4289]

brilliant . we did an impromptu version . not at this level but we enjoyed it . good times

[@giorgioamari4819]

Tuba Skinny semplicemente fantastici

[@timhall7031]

Skinnies forever ! 😍

[@patrickdunbar4056]

Many thanks, Tuba Skinny! At last I have found music worth listening to. Many thanks.

[@JOSEANTONIO-fn5nq]

Gran vídeo, como de costumbre, de esta genial banda. Saludos, James.

[@user-qv7wt2rf8d]

Высший класс!!!!

[@rolandfougerouse1203]

trs très bon !

[@yoebutt]

I found tuba by accident on here- DAMN DID I GET LUCKY !!!

[@mohamedalaa5431]

Belamena, Belamena, Belamena's in the harbour; Belamena, Belamena, Belamena's in the harbour; Put the Belamena on the dock, And paint the Belamena black, black, black, Put the Belamena on the dock, And paint the Belamena black, black, black Oh the Mystery, oh the Mystery, she was always carry whisky. Oh the Mystery, oh the Mystery, she was always carry whisky. Put the Mystery on the dock, And paint the Mystery black, black black, Put the Mystery on the dock, And paint the Mystery black, black black

[@Oj-Oj]

thnx

[@royburton4999]

Excellent. This sounds like a Tiny Parham tune?

[@jesusmariomaciasgonzalezel799]

¡ FABULOSOS ! EXTRAORDINARIOS ¡ EXCELENTES ! 31/8/20

[@johnzima9505]

Cool Group....

[@johngonsalves5268]

:o)

[@feet1215]

put the cigarette out

[@elstongunn1385]

Where is Erica?

[@JamesSterling]

At the time this video was made she had just had her baby a couple of days before. She did return for Tuba Skinny's summer tour later in the year.

[@5gorilla7]

Wish Greg would stop smoking..He's good

[@martas9283]

exactly!! he needs to stick around!

[@stevegrooms1142]

John S are you sure he's smoking? I see a cigarette but no smoke.

[@thejils1669]

Strumming guitar and (?pseudo) smoking...COOL!

[@rubenmorenosanchez3207]

Muy bonita música,por fa díganme la prosedencia y que es tuba,es algún instrumento,y el músico de pie que tiene en el pecho y toca con las manos como se llama el instrumento

[@joesmith-jb4ls]

Maybe the 12 thumbs down are Rappers who have zero musical talent

[@robbinsonhatol1923]

.... I luv the music ... but you have to be a rapper to dislike this? ... 🤔

[@TedSilar]

I hope they are never on national TV. It will ruin them. I hope that donors just give them money and they stay off of TV.

[@Leo92053]

Sur look great whit that cigarette in his face )NOT)

[@frankcorrenti5941]

He ain't daggin' got it it!

[@fins59]

Please keep the cigarettes out of your videos Tuba Skinny, it spoils the good vibe, please don't accidentally promote products that kill.

[@jllew5]

Idk how it happened, but we all found the dumbest 7 ppl in the world...

[@JAZZCLASSIQUE]

I find the band much better in this config, without E. Lewis, and with a drummer, (rather than washboard) .

[@jalopyding9743]

You know that the drummer (Robin Rapuzzi) also the guy that play the washboard. Looks like he enjoy playing the washboard more, easier for him to improvise. Tuba skinny is a traveling band, so a washboard much more practical than a drum kit, and in his hand the washboard will bring more dinamic rhythm, he is an excellent percussionist.