Founded 2005

One of the Newest Bands

History of the Free Agents Brass Band

 as told by Brass Band Leader, Ellis Joseph

  They stayed because this is their home and as far as they were concerned they didn't, they couldn't fit into any other city except New Orleans. "We made it through that water", says Ellis Joseph, only to come home and have to wait for things to return to some kind of normal. It would be months before that happened and until then life continued. 

It was at that time, when Mr. Joseph decided he would form him own brass band and put out the call for fellow musicians to join him. 

As he would come to call himself and the others from at least 9 by the count from other brass across the city. The members are from the Hot 8, the chosen few, rebirth brass band, a

The brass band is committed to bringing the genre of Brass Band music, national. Their flavor is a mixture of hip hop and traditional music fused to developed a newer brand.

When asked where they see themselves five years from now, the group said they don't want to just take songs and just make music, they want to keep it real, keep it on a positive level, and keep playing that positive message.

They have an album called "Free Agents Music", with about 11 tracks, with the title track entitled, " We made it through that water".

They apparently truly value their, "free Agent status", because they have not allied themselves with any one or group of SA&PC so far. Nor have they relied on any outsiders to write their music