Artesian Rumble Arkestra | Olympia
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Local horn players and drummers formed Olympia’s Artesian Rumble Arkestra to promote peace, raise political awareness, and support positive social action with music. The band strives to bring joyful sounds to community events, playing streets and public places as part of rallies and other worthy causes. We play a variety of jazz standards and atypical covers reflecting the broad diversity of our members. Styles covered include samba, rock, Balkan, New Orleans, gospel, reggae, and pop. Our open and collective group operates by shared rule and through critical mass. ARA’s purpose is to increase momentum of positive events while paying tribute to artists and the cultural expression created by music.
Beat Crunchers | Eugene
BeatCrunchers is the culmination of various side projects of an Eugene Or. based bacteria, inspired by a long history of humans making music together. We enjoy a nice hot cup of Hip-Hop, steeped in Brazilian & Afro-Cuban rhythms by the fire side or at the club, long walks along ridge line trails, funk and graffiti.
Bolting Brassicas Marching Band | Lasaqueti, B.C.
www.boltingbrassicas.ca
The Bolting Brassicas Marching Band are a diaphragm and forearm-powered aural enema packed with Balkan-klezmer-funkalicious (klez-bunk) power that’ll purge your oomp-aah demons. Most of our songs are fast, except a couple of hand-on-heart numbers that’ll have you blubbering into your vodka. Our speciality: causing audiences to sweat profusely in their formal wear. We’re from Lasqueti Island, which is exactly like LA, except for the squeti and just about everything else. The band comprises 5% of the island’s population, which makes music its second biggest export after massage therapy.
Bucharest Drinking Team | Seattle
www.bucharestdrinkingteam.com
The Bucharest Drinking Team isn’t just a professional comptetitive liquor disposal club. It’s also an ensemble of fine musicians, with high-proof, anise-scented dance tunes specially distilled for your Eastern Bloc party. The first-string vocal squad is backed by a traditional Romanian taraf midfield team and an impenetrable brass defense line. From its eastern-European home field, the team’s musical repertory also travels to exhibition tunes from other drinking leagues in Europe and North America.
Environmental Encroachment | Chicago
www.encroach.net
Chicago performance art group Environmental Encroachment (EE) uses circus theatrics and an artist marching band to create unique entertainment environments. Performances can include costumes, live music, parades, acrobatics, fire spinning, spontaneous appearances and audience interaction.
EE Marching Band’s music uses North African, Latin, and traditional American rhythms, fused with electric bass and a brass section. Melodies are folkloric fusions, and creations inspired from New Orleans, Jazz and Rock.
EE encourages participation, dance, and freeing the spirit.
Garfield High School Bulldog Drumline | Seattle
www.garfieldhs.org
Recognizing Seattle’s diverse history, Garfield educates all students as they build confidence, become active citizens and achieve academic excellence. To accomplish this goal, Garfield commits itself to involving school personnel, community members, students, and their families as partners in an ongoing process of eduational improvement. We construct an environment of excellence and ethical growth for all. Students, faculty and staff continuously work to learn and grow. As part of that, they have an amazingly talented drumline that might well melt your face.
Movitas | Seattle
With an emphasis on having fun, Movitas is a radical street band that encourages and supports each member in learning, growing, and developing into our full creative selves, actively welcoming folks of different musical backgrounds and abilities to join.
Movitas celebrates egalitarianism: as a collective where everyone actively contributes to the group; and by developing and maintaining power-sharing amongst the entire collective.
The Movitas band strives to be a welcoming, accessible musical community and a safer space for people of all ages, genders, racial identities, class backgrounds, and abilities. We don’t tolerate racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, ageist, classist, ablist, or other oppressive behaviors.
We strive to have healthy relationships and hold ourselves accountable to each other and the wider community. The Movitas Band exists to: have fun, reclaim public space and the streets for music, provide musical support for political actions, and be a creative outlet for members, actively nurturing members’ creativity!
Nu Klezmer Army | Seattle
The Nu Klezmer Army was formed as a resistance cell in 1897 deep within the bowels of the Siberian prison camp Akatuy katorga. After years of careful planning, the opportunity to escape presented itself. Of the 137 members, only 9 escaped. They fled to the safety of Turkish bath houses in Bursa. 7 of 9 were musicians, and they made a meager living transcribing sheet music by memory. The other two were struck by lightning. One dark night somewhere just outside of Bozrah, a burning bush told them to form a Klezmer band. We are their descendants; constantly vigilant against gulag reprisal.
One Love | Seattle
Members of the former Yellow Hat Band, AntiFascist Marching Band, KlezterBalm, Cafe Oy Vet, and Yellow Banana Slug Hurt Band joined together to play music that makes sense on every level, for the joy of playing it. We stand for the freedom of self expression and the human right to love.
Orkestar Zirkonium | Seattle
www.orkestarzirkonium.com
In Seattle, amid the waterlogged remnants of squandered old-growth forests, broken-down breweries, industrial warehouses, and labor union halls, a mobile fourteen-piece brass-punk band borrows performative style and Balkan/klezmer-influenced sounds from the greats of the Roma tradition, plunging into crowds and galvanizing joyous derangement in every time signature.
Orkestar Zirkonium’s ten horn players and four percussionists hail from projects including the noir troupes Circus Contraption and Cirque de Flambe, the punk marching units Infernal Noise Brigade and the Anti-Fascist Marching Band, and the experimental jazz outfits Reptet and Empty Cage Quartet. Since its founding in 2003, the group has accumulated players, fine-tuned its scrappy attack, and performed in art-deco theatres, grimy clubs, daylit parks, condemned buildings, busy midnight intersections, and surprised taverns, coffeehouses, and commercial spaces. The band’s on- and offstage perambulations invite onlookers into a participatory role and recalibrate the relationship between performer and audience; its celebratory sounds inspire street parties, traditional Eastern European line dances, and the ecstatic abandonment of reason.
Samba Ja | Eugene
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Samba Já is Eugene’s own bateria – a thirty-member mobile percussion ensemble. They specialize in playing wild, funky, infectious, and incredibly danceable street music from all over Brazil and the Americas, from the sounds of Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro to original adaptations of old-school hip hop. Diverse, playful, and innovative, Samba Já recently celebrated its ninth birthday.
the world and all walks of life, Samba Já has performed at venues such as the Sam Bond’s Garage, The Hult Center, HONK!Fest West, NorthWest Folklife Festival, Oregon Country Fair, Eugene Celebration, Eugene First Night, Saturday Market, Wildish Community Theater in Springfield, the WOW Hall, McDonald Theater, Reser Stadium, Cozmic Pizza and enthusiastically received elementary school concerts. Come dance along in the parade with Samba Já!
Seattle Seahawks Blue Thunder Drumline | Seattle
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Not your typical drumline, Blue Thunder uses a variety of rhythms and visuals, incorporating rock and roll drumming alongside drum corps style, endearing them to Seahawks fans of all ages. Launched in the summer of 2004, Blue Thunder became the largest NFL drumline and only performance group fully supported by a franchise.
Blue Thunder is comprised of 35 local musicians, ages 21-55 with experience ranging from 2 to over 40 years in the industry. Members have a wide variety of musical backgrounds including marching bands, drum corps and rock bands. Blue Thunder is a part-time job employing professionals from many different occupations including: teachers, bartenders, police officers, and contractors to name a few. All music and choreography is original or arranged and written by members of Blue Thunder.
Seattle Sounders FC Soundwave Band | Seattle
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From the city which spawned grunge music and the sounds of Quincy Jones to Jimi Hendrix, comes the Sounders FC Sound Wave. Sound Wave is the official band of the Seattle Sounders FC and is the brainchild of Sounders FC minority owner Drew Carey. The 53-person ensemble is made up of traditional marching percussion and brass instruments, bringing the Sounders FC passion to life. The Sound Wave plays custom arrangements from all types of music including Latin, funk, big band, pop and rock.
The Carnival Band | Vancouver, B.C.
http://www.thecarnivalband.com/carnivalband/
Thirty piece, full tilt boogie, brass band explosion from East Vancouver plays funk, calypso, samba, and world-beat for you to cut a rug to! We bring pure love and a lively atmosphere whether we’re playing Vancouver’s Folk Festival or a small political rally in support of indigenous rights, peace or the Poverty Olympics. The best part is that we encourage anyone at any level of musical experience to participate. Under the musical direction and “spiritual leadership” of Ross Raymond Barrett and Tim Sars, we maintain that community music is grounded in love and collaboration, with the aim of empowering the individuals involved. Songs and performances are a means to creative expression and community cohesiveness, rather than an end in themselves.
Titanium Sporkestra | Seattle
www.TitaniumSporkestra.com
Hailing from Seattle, Titanium Sporkestra play marching band music like you’ve never heard it before. A typical Titanium Sporkestra performance involves booty shaking rhythms, heavy metal covers, flaming trombones and more. Titanium Sporkestra has performed all over the West Coast, won Burning Man last year, and are excited to continue banging and blowing into 2011.
Tubaluba | Seattle
www.tubalubaband.com
In a little more than a year, Tubaluba has made quite a name for itself while bringing the New Orleans Brass Band tradition to the streets and clubs of Seattle. Whether its leading second line parades at the Fremont Solstice Parade, U District Street Fair, Ballard SeaFoodfest, the West Seattle Street Fair, Fremont Lovefest, and Fremont’s Oktoberfest or tearing the roof off of local clubs like the Tractor Tavern, the Nectar Lounge, and the Croc, Tubaluba is just the grease you need to keep it movin’ all night long. Tubaluba brings vocals, piano, drums, and a mess of horns to the party, serving up New Orleans classics with second line-ified R&B tunes and booty shakin’ originals. Funk yeah!
VamoLá | Seattle
www.vamola.org
Through lively processions, parades, and stage performances, VamoLá brings to life the celebratory spirit of Brazilian carnival! While the emphasis is on samba—“the essence of the Brazilian musical soul”—VamoLá offers a rich array of other Brazilian music and dance styles as well, from the radical, hip-hop rhythms of samba-reggae to the elegant, powerful rhythms of maracatu. This exuberant drum and dance ensemble envelops the audience in driving rhythms, inviting the audience to join in and delighting viewers of all ages.
one love plays smarty pants this friday 8-9pm 6017 airport way s.!
Please consider joining us at the after-party which will help support both the bands, and Hazardfactory, your hosts.
more information at Hazardfactory.org and at facebook HAZARDFACTORY
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Sorry no minors. Location is about three miles south of Georgetown.
Please consider joining us at the afterparty ON MAY 13TH AT 10:30. Proceeds support Hazardfactory, your hosts.
More info is at Hazardfactory.org or on facebook at all caps HAZARDFACTORY.
I beleive there is a person whom is in one of these bands whom I played trumpet with in grade school a hundred years ago, gary werner, I geusss ill go down to watch and find out, good luck too all, take care
My 15 year old son Aedan is starting a Rebirth style Brass Band at Nathan Hale H. S.
I’m a Trombone player who is looking for a band to join. I played in a Ska Band in Houston TX in the mid 90′s and an experimental Klezmer Band here in Seattle in 2001.
Cheers!