Hungry March Band @ The Homestead Tomorrow
Thursday, March 8, at 6:30pm
The Change You Want to See Gallery and Convergence Stage
84 Havemeyer Street, at Metropolitan Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
917-202-5479
What happens when a bunch of anarcho-punks, radical feminists, cantankerous visual artists, seasoned and burgeoning musicians, cutting-edge performance artists, rebel academics, and good time party folk join together under a common goal: to make great street music and spectacle utilizing the gods of brass, wind, percussion and dance?
Find out when Hungry March Band talks to students from Stonehill College
at The Change You Want to See Gallery and Convergence Stage.
The band will discuss their history, HMB's role as the soundtrack for NYC's activist movement in the post-'99 WTO world, their musical repertoire and direction, their performance elements and inspirations, and the great and wonderful network of political street bands emerging in the U.S.A. today. HMB will also introduce the audience to the European network of brass bands they've met in their travels, and talk about the central role the brass bands both in the U.S. and abroad play in participatory culture.
Refreshments will be served, courtesy of HMB.
This event is free, very much open to the public, and all are invited to attend.
http://www.hungrymarchband.com
http://www.thechangeyouwanttosee.org
ABOUT THE HUNGRY MARCH BAND
The Hungry March Band is a 25-piece community based, award-winning Brass March Band. Saving the Fire Houses, playing for the dogs, freeing the gardens, making room for bikes, the freaks, the wild and the meek; on Coney Island, the subways, Brighton Beach Boardwalks, the steps of the NYC Post Office and fine institutions of culture including Lincoln Center, MOMA and MSG.
Their musical repertoire consists of original compositions written by band members as well as scores selected from our multi-cultural world community. These songs range from New Orleans street bands, European brass traditions, Gypsy/Roma classics, wedding brass bands from India, the jazz world and the global community of NYC. 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.
From their website: "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!"