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From Brooklyn NY, we are a community group with a membership as diverse as our music. The band is an ever evolving musical experiment influenced and inspired from Brooklyn’s backyard with Latin flavor, punk rock noise, hip hop beats and music of the streets. Put on your dancing shoes and break out the fancy threads because we’ve got the party going on - a blazing parade of flesh, blood, steel, brass and wood. We are the music of the people! Venues: Museum of Modern Art, Madison Square Garden, Tribeca Film Festival, New York Marathon, New Years Day Polar Bear Swim, The Knitting Factory, Red Hook Arts Festival, BQE Dog Parade, Brooklyn Brewery Street Fair, 42nd Street Palace of Variety, Millennium’s Neighborhood w/Rev Billy, St Patrick’s Day Gay Pride, Village Voice Siren Festival, Tom Waits Festival, Coney Island Mermaid Festival |
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From Providence RI, the What Cheer? Brigade consists of people who got together out of a shared belief that loud music shouldn’t always need to plug in. So that pretty much means brass and percussion. Much of our music owes its history to the spread of brass throughout Europe and then the rest of the World through military conflict and colonialism. We can, should and will play anywhere in any weather. However, we especially like playing outside on sunny days. Venues: Night Of The International Institute, Central Falls Elementary School recess, Providence Bright Night, Chinatown Street Parade (Boston), The Steel Yard Benefit, Cemetery Street Party, Club AS220 |
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In the year
of the Black Horse, circa two thousand two, on the banks of the
mighty Hudson River, a nameless band was born to the loving parents
of Venues: multimedia performances (Anthology Film Archives); massive puppet shows (with NYC Puppeteers Collective, ImaginationExplosion, Great Small Works); cultural festivals (Lincoln Center Outdoors, CitySol, River TO River); community parades (Gay Pride, South Bronx Earth Day); Peace of Love ceremonies (RNC, May Day); music-making workshops for children of the South Bronx and Lower East Side; a spectacular 150-person performance at 2005 Celebrate Brooklyn (known then as S.L.A.M.); a month-long residency with legendary conductor Lawrence "Butch" Morris; special guest appearances (Medeski, Martin and Wood, Brazilian Girls); operas, studio recordings, and a weekly stint at the surrealist bar Zebulon in Williamsburg. Currently, the band can be seen in film great Jonas Mekas' web film "365 films" |
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From San Francisco/Oakland CA, we are a group of brass, reeds and percussion that plays music to support political causes with particular emphasis on peace, and racial and social justice. We use music and artistic expression as a response to oppressive society, to sustain and build our movements, and as an expression of the world that we want to live in. BLO is a group of musicians (of all levels) and cultural workers who use culture to support causes of a broadly left nature Venues: MLK Labor Heritage Festival, Cesar Chaves Parade, Pickets in support of HERE/UNITE, Picket at Safeway with UFCW, Natl. Day Against Police Brutality, Rally against FCC media consolidation, March Against War, Mission District Bay Area Social Forum. |
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From New York City, we exist to serve the efforts of progressive and radical groups and causes, playing for events that support feminism and women's rights, the queer community, labor, the environment, social and economic justice, peace and community self-determination. We pledge to fight racism, sexism, homophobia, war and violence in all its forms, striving to bring joy and inspiration to these communities and to bring new people into radical causes. Through our music, we pay tribute to the world's cultures and the revolutionary role music has played throughout history. Venues: Women's March on Washington DC, Post-RNC Time's Up Party, Radical Teachers Zine Release Party, Puppet Parade (Philadelphia), Benefit for the 4th Street Co-op, War Resisters League March, Freewheels Bicycle Defense Fund, Central Park Earth Day Festival, May Day Anti-War Parade, Reverend Billy's Critical Mass Afterparty, Greene Dragon's Fourth of July Party, Trout Parade, Coney Island Mermaid Parade |
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Original Big Seven Social Aid & Pleasure Club From New Orleans, the Original Big Seven Social Aid & Pleasure Club’s annual parade in the Seventh Ward continued this year on Mother’s Day, celebrating its 10th anniversary despite the hardships of Hurricane Katrina. Gathering on St. Bernard Avenue, two brass bands, a throng of feathered second liners, and thousands of spectators wove a five-mile path through once-deserted streets that are now slowly rebounding. Many of the Club’s members and second liners were tenants of St. Bernard public housing development before Katrina, where the Original Big Seven parade traditionally starts with a kick-off party in the development’s main courtyard. A centuries-old tradition in New Orleans, Social Aid and Pleasure clubs (SAPCs) are civic associations that have long drawn neighborhoods together. In addition to putting on parties and parades, members often provide services for one another such as paying for family funerals and raising funds for medical expenses. Throughout the year, SAPC’s also provide regular work for the city’s many brass bands. This year, the Original Big Seven hired To Be Continued, an up and coming brass from the Ninth and Seventh wards whose members are mostly still in their teens. |
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From Portland OR, MarchFourth Marching Band is a mobile big band spectacular, consisting of a 14-piece horn section, a 10-piece drum/percussion corps, anchored by electric bass (battery powered). The sound is huge, melodic, and dynamic, taking audiences on a musical journey around the globe. The band writes and performs its own material, and also draws inspiration from an eclectic range of worldwide influences, such as Eastern European Gypsy Brass, Samba, Funk, Afro-Beat, Big-Band, Jazz, and Rock music, as well as television, film, circus, and Vaudeville. To the band, art is life. Aside from being performers, members are also full- or part-time artists, designers, and craftspeople. |
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From Chicago IL, we're a five member brass/reed band. The music we play is a mutt of balkan/mediterranean sound, punk, new orleans-style and free jazz. Always at the bottom of things is celebration and unity. Venues: Rock clubs and parties in and around Chicago, Aris and Box of Wine Mardi Gras Parades'05, live sets on WNUR and WLUW, several weddings, a funeral, 527 parade at Columbia College, a CAPS meeting, local access TV |
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Chicago IL performance art group Environmental Encroachmnet (EE) uses circus theatrics, live music and costumes to create unique entertainment environments, parades, processions, shows, punk artist marching band encroachments and art happenings. EE combines a costumed marching band with multi-media stage performance antics including dancers, hooping, juggling and skits. EE wants people to interact, be a part, be curious, dance, play. EE can do children's shows, Holiday events, street busking, tactical encroachments, festivals, rituals, ceremonies, vaudevillian skits, electric and accoustic music jams, funerals and births. Venues:
World Refugee Day, Buddha's Peace and Happiness Parade, NASCAR,
Lollapalooza, Puppetropolis, Krannert Museum of Art, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Houston Art Car Parade and Museum,
Chicago Folk and Roots Fest, Chicago World Music Festival, Burning
Man, Chiditarod Absurd Shopping Car Race |
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From Portsmouth NH, the Leftist Marching Band is a group of adults who support political issues that some folks would call liberal. We prefer to call them the good causes. Basically, we want to use the marching band genre to have fun, make music and create a unified progressive voice in the community. It’s about humanity, not political conflict. We want to combat fear with hope and humor. The LMB is designed to accommodate everyone. Former marching band players should find the LMB to be a great way to recapture the camaraderie and enjoyment of the marching band experience. For musically challenged activists, the LMB flag corps offers a place to show your colors. Dancers, jugglers, puppeteers and any other performers are encouraged to participate. Our motto: "Our music is better than it sounds!" |
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| The Bread & Puppet Circus Band From Glover VT, we are the Bread & Puppet Circus Band by day and the Bread & Puppet Theater by night (or sometimes the opposite). But one thing is for sure: this tiny band is capable of turning a street corner into a party, a party into a circus, a circus into a political science demonstration, and a demonstration into a party. They have also caused an audience to remove its clothing. Hold on to your hats, they may not be big, but they are Brand New! Venues: Bread & Puppet Theater, Barton town parade, Lyndonville town parade, Cabot Independence Day Parade |
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Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band From Somerville MA, we are a 15-piece "raucous, stomp-your-foot- and-belt-out-the-choruses" New Orleans-style street band. We are regular Joes and Janes with day jobs who combine music with social action -- slamming out the sounds of the legendary Crescent City for peace rallies, street festivals, parades, funerals and benefits. Our motto: ''We aim to please if the cause is true and the time is right." Venues: First Night, Mardi Gras at the Kirkland Café, City Sprouts, Antiwar Rally on Boston Common,Bread & Puppet, Summer Revels, Charles River Festival, Boston Social Forum, Dorchester Open Studios, Benefit for NOLA Musicians Clinic, Redbones Bike Benefit, Johnny D’s Hurricane Relief Benefit, Somerville Homeless Coalition, Boston Center for the Arts, Abbey Lounge, Plough & Stars |
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Born May 27th 2006 for the 'Status For All' march/demo in Montreal this marching band didn't want to stop marching... so we started marching and we've been marching ever since. and many marchers came and went and many marchers have yet to come... maybe you are one of them? Bring your voice, your drum, your triange or your what-cha-ma-call-it... all marchers are welcome to march and play.
Listen to Chaotic Insurrection Ensemble (formerly Anarchie Martchie) on MySpace |
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From Greensboro NC, Caka!ak Thunder started banging five gallon buckets with broom sticks in 2002 for a World Bank protest in Washington, DC. Since then, we've tightened up a bit. We have brought the funk to crowds both large and small in venues both expected and unexpected; in large moblizations such as the RNC protests in New York City, and in local spirited actions in downtown Greensboro. The rhythms we play are borrowed from Brazilian samba. Samba emerged when the music of indiginous latin american cultures mixed with that of Africans who were brought to Brazil as slaves. It is a music of resistance and it carries with it a great deal of history. |
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Near and Now One-Man Band and Healing Orchestra Michael
Romanyshyn performs a one-man-band, Playing New Orleans jazz, klezmer
and original tunes on the clarinet, Romanyshyn struts around with
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Pink Puffers Drum & Brass Phunk Band From Rome, Pink Puffers is a ten member marching band playing mainly funk, jazz, blues and latin. Our base is "Il Grande Cocomero" (an old basement of a non-profit organisation where volunteers help psychiatric children), in the nice neighborhood of San Lorenzo in Rome. We started playing at the end of 2005 as a quintet (trumpet, alto, trombone, tuba and drum set), and after a whole year playing essentially on stage we decided to enlarge the group to found a true, loud and noisy marching band. Pink Puffers play almost every week in the center of Rome, in the streets, in our wonderful squares or on our romantic ancient bridges. Obviously we also play during parties, weddings, festivals and other events. You can find our influences among the brass bands' panorama, from Youngblood Brass Band to Hungry March Band, including the music of New Orleans, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and all the bands playing at Honk Fest. Our final aim is to see people in front of us having fun. WHY PINK? Because a pink band playing black music is an hymn to anti-racism, because the pink panther is pink (and swing, and jazz, and like us), because pink people are against bush and war and stupidity generally speaking, because pink is the colour of the flowers that will become peaches, and because pink puffers are clinical patients affected by emphysema (and emphysema is a disease of who works blowing, like us with our wind-instruments...)..The Joe Tuba Funk Club is our way to thank Joe Tuba and the Hungry March Band for coming to Europe and for changing our way to play brass and our idea of brass band. |
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Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band From Davis Square in Somerville, formed from the most talented deadbeats and drifters that could be rounded up, this group of raucous and rambunctious musicians will honk, wail, blow, beat, bounce, scream and serenade their way into your hearts. Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band combines the rich musical history of the circus and the vagabond peoples of Europe with the raw energy of free jazz and the irreverence and fun of today's vaudeville. Check out their co-conspirators, the The Madcap Rumpus Society. Listen to Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band on MySpace |
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