Hungry March Band to Embark on West Coast U.S. Tour
Hungry March Band, New York's inimitable music and performance ensemble, will begin their week-long West Coast tour, "It Came From New York!" in Seattle on Friday, April 9 at the third annual HONK! West Festival. HMB plays their final West Coast show Sunday, April 18 in San Francisco. For more info on scheduling, visit www.hungrymarchband.com.
Founded in Brooklyn in 1997, HMB's global brass repertoire and carnivalesque theatricality have taken them from coast to coast and to Europe, where they've been enveloped into a longstanding tradition of community and professional brass bands. Veterans of six European tours, "It Came From New York!" is the group's second voyage to the West Coast, and their California debut.
Why the West Coast? If the invitation to attend HONK! Fest West convinced HMB to return for a second visit, another possibility made this trip hard to resist. For many in the project, "It Came From New York!" holds special importance: it's their first-time ever playing in San Francisco, home to many fellow brass travelers and to the Burning Man organization, whose East Coast followers have especially supported HMB over the last decade as their original sound and presentation has developed.
HMB arrives on the West Coast fresh from a summer that included the Pouet Pouet Circus Festival in France's Loire Valley and the Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival in Sardinia, where they collaborated with American conductor Butch Morris. In October, HMB attended Boston's fourth annual HONK! Festival of activist street bands as well as the Brooklyn HONK! Festival. Though different in content, together these festivals highlight HMB's unique ability to effortlessly meld improvised music and movement with catchy hooks and social dance.
Imagine if the conservatory jazz ensemble kidnapped the local marching band's baton twirlers and pom-pom dancers. Inspired by the wild Gypsy brass bands of Macedonia, sprinkled with the surrealism of Fellini, and a deep dish of New Orleans' Second Line, this crew runs loose in Coney Island while playing original compositions flavored by Latin, Balkan, Indian, Salsa, Afrobeat, Punk, Jazz, New Wave, No Wave, Caribbean, Swing, Hip Hop, Techno and oh, a few good old sing-a-longs. Ladies and gentlemen, this blazing entity of flesh, brass, blood, steel and wood could be no other than Hungry March Band.
More info: www.hungrymarchband.com.
Founded in Brooklyn in 1997, HMB's global brass repertoire and carnivalesque theatricality have taken them from coast to coast and to Europe, where they've been enveloped into a longstanding tradition of community and professional brass bands. Veterans of six European tours, "It Came From New York!" is the group's second voyage to the West Coast, and their California debut.
Why the West Coast? If the invitation to attend HONK! Fest West convinced HMB to return for a second visit, another possibility made this trip hard to resist. For many in the project, "It Came From New York!" holds special importance: it's their first-time ever playing in San Francisco, home to many fellow brass travelers and to the Burning Man organization, whose East Coast followers have especially supported HMB over the last decade as their original sound and presentation has developed.
HMB arrives on the West Coast fresh from a summer that included the Pouet Pouet Circus Festival in France's Loire Valley and the Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival in Sardinia, where they collaborated with American conductor Butch Morris. In October, HMB attended Boston's fourth annual HONK! Festival of activist street bands as well as the Brooklyn HONK! Festival. Though different in content, together these festivals highlight HMB's unique ability to effortlessly meld improvised music and movement with catchy hooks and social dance.
Imagine if the conservatory jazz ensemble kidnapped the local marching band's baton twirlers and pom-pom dancers. Inspired by the wild Gypsy brass bands of Macedonia, sprinkled with the surrealism of Fellini, and a deep dish of New Orleans' Second Line, this crew runs loose in Coney Island while playing original compositions flavored by Latin, Balkan, Indian, Salsa, Afrobeat, Punk, Jazz, New Wave, No Wave, Caribbean, Swing, Hip Hop, Techno and oh, a few good old sing-a-longs. Ladies and gentlemen, this blazing entity of flesh, brass, blood, steel and wood could be no other than Hungry March Band.
More info: www.hungrymarchband.com.
