The Oakland Second Line Project

06/03/2020

We'd appreciate if you could donate any amount to help us bring you more relevant community resources and programming and pay Bay Area POC teaching artists and musicians in these uncertain times.

Some of our new programming includes:

The 2021 Oakland Second Line Series

From The Bayou To The Bay Musician and Resource Exchange Program

The Young POC Musician Mentorship Program

Cultural Music Workshops

Donate Here:

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04/06/2020

Happy Birthday to our Big Chief Ray Blazio who is back home in New Orleans. We appreciate his guidance and wisdom. ✊🏾❤️💪🏾⚜️

New Orleans oldest-living Mardi Gras Indian chief Ray Blazio turns 80.

05/11/2019

Exciting new things on the horizon. Shout out to Oakland Central. Stay Tuned!

04/07/2019

One of the many beautiful things the second line does is create multi-generational spaces for black families to share in black joy.

01/30/2019

We're excited to be bringing you a few new community enriching programs this year in addition to a few more second lines.

We'd appreciate if you could donate any amount to help us bring you more relevant community resources and programming, pay Bay Area POC teaching artists and musicians, and more.

Some of our new 2019 programming includes:

The 2019 Oakland Second Line Series

From The Bayou To The Bay Musician and Resource Exchange Program

The Young POC Musician Mentorship Program

Cultural Music Workshops

For a limited time donations over $50 will receive our official t-shirt.

Donate Here:

http://bit.ly/oslpdonate

Thank you and see you at Oakland Mardi Gras Parade and Oakland Mardi Gras 2019 w/ MJ's Brass Boppers x DJ Platurn on Fat Tuesday March 5, 2019.

01/01/2019

10/17/2018

Big love and thanks to Youth Speaks, The Black Woman is God, MJ's Brass Boppers, and all that helped to make the Second Line this past Saturday one big awesome gathering of black joy.

Join us next on November 18 for The Orginal BuckShop with Afro Urban Society at The Malonga Casquelourd Center for The Arts for .

More info and workshop tickets at:
https://www.facebook.com/events/268278957023595/?ti=icl

🎥: Madoka Yamanouchi

10/03/2018

09/19/2018

Many thanks to writer Jenee Darden and KALW for this awesome piece on us that aired yesterday. We are beyond honored to have Oakland embrace, encourage, snd support us every step of the way.

Thank you!

Coming up:

9/20 (THU) - MJ's Brass Boppers pop up second line 12p - 12:45p starting at 13th & Broadway in downtown Oakland.

9/28 (FRI) - MJ’s Brass Boppers at The Starry Plough (Berkeley) 9pm

11/18 (SUN) - Oakland Second Line x Afro Urban Society joint second line. (Downtown Oakland) More details coming soon.

When I arrive at Arroyo Viejo Park in East Oakland, the neighborhood looks more like the French Quarter in New Orleans. Sounds from the band MJ’s Brass