Mama Digdown’s will bring Brass Jackson to the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis on Saturday, November 21 at 7:30 p.m., for a special musical performance and Minneapolis album release. Opening the show will be local cuban music aces Yazmin and Beat Zero, with special guest Yusa, the Havana-born musician now based in New Orleans. Comedian Trish Cook will emcee.

On their new release, Brass Jackson, Mama Digdown’s Brass Band reimagines ten of Jackson’s biggest hits through the sound of a brass band. Familiar melodies are recast in punchy horn lines, gritty funk, and the rolling rhythms of the second line. The songs remain recognizable, but their center of gravity shifts. Music built for stadiums and dance floors finds a different kind of life in the hands of a band whose musical instincts have been shaped by three decades of playing, listening, traveling, and learning.

Yazmin and Beat Zero will perform with special guest Yusa, the Havana-born singer-songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer now based in New Orleans. Yusa’s music draws on Cuban trova and Afro-Cuban traditions while moving freely through jazz, soul, funk, and rock. Her international career includes collaborations with Lenine, Lila Downs, and Susana Baca, as well as touring with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on Tuba to Cuba. Her appearance creates a natural connection between the evening’s artists: musicians who draw deeply from their own traditions while allowing those traditions to meet and evolve.