Join us Friday Night for special island themed drinks from the new Bar Lemont and the premiere of Raging Brass, a 7-person Carribean, Dub and Reggae outfit lead by Lemont's music guru Marc Chillemi.

STUDENTS GET IN FREE WITH RSVP!

Walk into a room where Raging Brass is playing their Afro-Caribbean styles mixed with jazz, reggae, ska and West African beats, and you will be transported and filled with histories tether, where language is lost and unnecessary. Curated by Marc Chillemi, trumpeter, bandleader, composer and arranger, the cacophony of sound is a marvel to behold. His selection of some of Portland's finest players allows the music to be what Chillemi calls, "Improvisational by Design". It dips in and out of solos and danceable beats into a curious mix of pure unadulterated joy. You can see it on the player's faces, they are having so much fun. Chillemi moves to the music bouncing between the slides of the trombone as the saxophones create meandering notes down a blue-scaled Caribbean flavor. He's got the chops to own this ensemble but is isn't about just one, it is the mix of all of these musicians playing there might through the throws of life. Hence, the band motto "out of many, one sound".