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What I feel sheepish about, in regards to Joe's reference to this blog, is not having heard of the "first downtown NYC community-based brass band in a century," Tri-Battery Pops. 

Granted, New York is a big place, and Tribeca and Battery Park City are neighborhoods I wander into only once year to have expensive drinks with my former dissertation advisor. I suppose it's a good thing for there to be so many community street bands around that one can't keep up.