HONK! Festival Preview, Round 4
Every Friday before this year’s HONK! Festival (October 10-12) we’re giving you a preview of a few of the bands who will be attending. This week, The Bread & Puppet Circus Band, Leftist Marching Band, MarchFourth Marching Band, and the Seed & Feed Marching Abominable.
O! and don’t forget to print out your HONK! posters and spread the word!
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!
Leftist Marching Band
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. Learn more at leftistmarchingband.org/
MarchFourth Marching Band
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.
Seed & Feed Marching Abominable
The Seed & Feed Marching Abominable is a volunteer marching band based in Atlanta, Georgia. The band brings the joy of the unexpected through music and street theater. Members (known as Abominables) enjoy the opportunity to keep alive musical interests that might otherwise be lost forever.
The Seed & Feed Marching Abominable is made up of people just like you. Do you have an unfulfilled passion for music? Do you miss the sound of a thumping bass drum, swooping trombone, or soaring trumpet? Do you need more cowbell?
Related posts:
- HONK! Music Festival – Community Meeting
- HONK! Fest West 2009
- HONK! Returns in ‘09!
- HONK! 2009 Posters and Website
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