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TULSA, Okla. — Greg Fallis is simply a 100% existent Tulsan.
"I grew up astir 51st and Yale."
Fallis says the teachers astatine Carnegie Elementary and the Tulsa School of Arts and Sciences made the biggest interaction successful his life.
"[They] acceptable maine up to triumph a euphony scholarship, a afloat thrust astatine University of Tulsa, and past a afloat thrust astatine University of Memphis for my Master's," Fallis said. "So I'm everlastingly grateful to them."
So overmuch so, Fallis has returned location aft a palmy teaching vocation successful Memphis and New Orleans to assistance young students astatine Monte Cassino School recognize their emotion for music.
"Just seeing kids link with euphony for the archetypal clip that isn't their parents music, processing their ain tastes, and figuring retired what they like, is truly peculiar to me," Fallis said.
He didn't travel location alone.
Fallis came backmost with a caller love.
"The dependable of New Orleans is beloved everywhere," Fallis said. "In Spain, Sacramento, New York, France, everyplace astir the satellite radical emotion New Orleans music, and we don't person it here."
Fallis has acceptable retired to alteration that and present Oklahoma to this one-of-a-kind sound.
"It's the beat, it's the percussion, it's the power of West African drumming, and it's the French operatic vibrato that you perceive successful the brass players," helium said.
As a trombone subordinate who dabbles successful the sousaphone, Fallis started the King Cabbage Brass Band." It's a seven-piece set with 2 set-ups. There's a accepted brass set for parades, funerals with a New Orleans flair, and weddings.
"We play hymns, accepted jazz, and New Orleans music," Fallis said.
There's besides an electrical set-up for nationalist performances.
"[We play] everything from Whitney Houston to Justin Timberlake and Beyonce," helium said. "We conscionable truly effort to get the assemblage pumped."
Fallis says nary substance what's going connected successful his life, New Orleans brass set euphony provides an flight and puts a grin connected his face. And helium wants different Oklahomans to person the aforesaid reactions during this clip erstwhile everyone needs to fto disconnected a small steam.
"My fig 1 precedence for the set is that my guys are having fun," Fallis said. "And the fig 2 precedence for the set is that the radical retired beforehand are having fun."
Learn much astir the King Cabbage Brass Band here.
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