The livestream of tonight's, Mon, Sep 26th memorial for jaimie branch will be available here.
​Please check back closer to the event.

The official New York memorial began with a reception at Pioneer Works at 5 pm EST on Monday, September 26, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

The livestream began with the program at 6pm as follows:

Centering by Chad Taylor
Eulogy by Kate Branch
Musical dedication by Jason Ajemian
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” read by Will Yokowicz
Musical dedication by Jason Nazary, Lester St. Louis, Fay Victor, Owen Stewart-Robertson, Angela Morris, Kenny Warren and Jake Henry
Words by Kim Alpert
Sing along to “Moon River” – ft. Sally Branch
 
      Intermission
 
Performance of "leaves of glass," ft. Russell, Jenny, Griffin and Malcolm Branch, Lester St. Louis, Aquiles Navarro and Chris Williams
Words by Piotr Orlov
Musical dedication by William Parker, Patricia Nicholson, Chris Williams, Cooper-Moore and Hamid Drake
Words by Scottie McNiece
Musical dedication by Irreversible Quartet, ft. a sing along to "love song"

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In addition to selected art work by jaimie, memories, and eulogies from family and friends, there will be live musical dedications from: The Branch Family; Fly or Die’s Chad Taylor, Jason Ajemian, and Lester St. Louis; Anteloper’s Jason Nazary; Arts for Art comrades Chris Williams, William Parker, Patricia Nicholson Parker, Cooper-Moore, and Hamid Drake; as well as her multi-faceted friends and collaborators from Irreversible Entanglements, Keir Neuringer, Aquiles Navarro, Luke Stewart, and Tcheser Holmes.

If you'd like to attend the event in person, please RSVP on eventbrite.

If you are attending in person, you’re going to want to arrive early: Bene Coopersmith, of the legendary @360recordshop in Red Hook, along with friends and family, are organizing a second line march through the neighborhood. The community will meet at 3 pm at The Record Shop, begin marching at 4 pm, and end at 5 pm at Pioneer Works.

All are welcome to participate — bring your horn, your mom, your pots, your pans — we’ll be shutting down traffic and making a big, beautiful fucking ruckus.

Click the image above for AFA's jaimie branch playlist and blast breezy all day. We love you, jaimie.

"branch could conjure a world of personal expression with her trumpet, sounding brash and conflagratory one moment, bleary and contemplative the next. What she always conveyed with her horn, in any setting, was an absolute whole-body conviction. One reason she became a beloved linchpin of the creative music community over the last decade was this spirit of gutsy intensity. Her demeanor, by comparison, was often hilariously profane and ultracasual - qualities she hinted at with a preferred moniker, jaimie breezy branch (no caps)."
-Nate Chinen for NPR

jaimie on The Lot Radio

Some words from Patricia Nicholson:

jaimie branch is gone. It makes no sense. No one will be able to fill her space. She was like that, an irreplaceable creative force. A one-of-a-kind creative artist.

Below are some of her words. She gave them to me to speak about her bands at Vision. Here's jaimie's statement from back in 2018 :
Fly or Die is an ethos of sorts, lemme explain: so, in this capital driven war machine, we gotta fly above to breathe, or risk getting sucked in or under. this music is supposed to transport, it's supposed to transform, it's gotta keep moving, be mutable, or it dies on the vine. i think about music the same way i think about life, keep pushing, keep tippin forward, keep laughing, ya gotta keep laughing. the guys in this band don't just play music, they lift it up. it lifts me up, and I hope it gets you too. xo, jb

2021
yoyoyoyoyoooyo here ya gogogogogogoogogogogo We FLY together or DIE apart. That's the crux of the vibe. There are forces out there that want to crush spirits, those who want to keep us separated to keep us from flocking up  — we reject those forces and instead play harder, listen harder, love harder. This music is protest, this music is peace, this music transports and transforms. The guys in this band don't just play music, they lift the bandstand and take off, it lifts me up and it will lift you too if you let it. FLY or DIE baby, we either moving closer to life or closer to death. So sound the trumpets, flock up, and fly, we stronger togther. ~ j breezy 2022 

Cest Trois
What can we say? It's three burning souls converging. Danceable anti-fascist, free punk, improvised electronic creative moment music, all friends and regular collaborators, uplifting and upholding each other. in the music pushing each other to unfold in real time in a sonic landscape. A single candle alone can light up a room or burn down the house, we aim to burn bright. We light up the darkness that surrounds and confuses and burn down preconceptions. We put beauty back into the soil with heat and intention. Occasionally, on a great night, we burn down the house. What's needed in this moment - the reflection of the light refracting back into the body, the rhythm, the soul - all at once, at peace, in time, right now. Not hurriedly, not slow, but in tune and time with the universe. much love, j

I will always think of jaimie with her arms spread wide, singing shouting and then she picks up her trumpet and played everything that she felt and we could all feel it. All we can do now, is remember. Remember her fierce commitment to her art. Remember and Love each other. Respect and Love the Music that inspired her and that inspires us, with some of the fierceness that she felt.

With Love and Light and Music,
Patricia Nicholson
​Arts for Art

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