The End is HERE!!!!
Hungry March Band -Utopia #7
the Extended Utopia
Fri 28 - 7PM Union Square North
9pmish - F train mystery location
then winding up in the street of DUMBO at 9:30pm - meet us at York F
train station
then parade to ReBar for our Blow Out CD release with the Draw-a-thon
Nation
10pm - Rebar! Free! (get your gorilla stamp for drinks specials.)
details below!
And please pick up a copy of our New CD Portable Soundtracks for
Temporary Utopias
Only $10 at events!
We're doing all this to celebrate it's release - Support the band!
***SPECIAL NOTE - From the Trombone Dept:
Friday, the ultimate Utopia. Squint your eyes tightly, clear the gunk
out of your ears and listen through the rumble of the city, and you'll
hear brass bands everywhere. Focus! Pull it into your
overconsciousness, grasp the tiny hairs connecting the disparate truck
horns and subway brakes and mirthy yelps and a thousand other voices,
and really listen! They're all over the place! Brass bands! The social
formula finally revealed, made magnificent, hallelu!
There's a good chance of hearing a fine one at the north side of Union
Square at the kick-off of Critical Mass, 7pm.
There's a good chance that riders on the F train sometime around 9pm
will be serenaded.
I wouldn't be surprised if that F train leaves a parade in its wake at
the York Street stop, squiggling its way through DUMBO to the art
labyrinth around Front and Jay, and setting up a permanent temporary
utopia at the Rebar, 147 Front Street, at 10 pm.
Beyond that, be prepared to expect everything, and nothing. Hooray!
DON'T FORGET- NEXT WEEKEND IS THE HONK! FESTIVAL!
HUNGRY MARCH BAND
Here's the press release...
Title: Seven Days of Utopia with the Hungry March Band
Date: September 22-28, 2007
Venue 1: Various undisclosed locations around New York City,
Venue 2 (Friday 9/28, 10pm Free): Rebar, 147 Front Street (btwn Jay
and Pearl), DUMBO, Brooklyn, NYC. F Train to York Street or A/C to
High Street.
(718)797-2322, http://www.rebarnyc.com
Event contact: Theresa Westerdahl, 917-676-8813, taraball@...
http://www.hungrymarchband.com
The Hungry March Band, New York City's legendary street brass band,
will celebrate the release of their latest CD in the anarchic style
that has become their trademark with a seven day, 23-minute series of
guerrilla style street hits of musical utopias. The band will play
songs from the CD, "Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias,"
throughout the city culminating with a grand finale in the streets of
DUMBO and a huge brass blow out at Rebar, 147 Front Street on Friday,
September 28th at 10pm. The location and time of each top secret
"Temporary Utopian hit" will be announced the evening before via the
band's web site and email list. Check out
http://www.hungrymarchband.com for details.
The Hungry March Band has earned a reputation for mythical revelry
with a decade of mermaid parades, rural raves, subway parties,
eccentric weddings, processionals for punk rock patron saints, and
many other forays into the territories of the free spirit. They were
featured in the final scene of John Cameron Mitchell's recent film
"Shortbus," and provide that strong dose of aural libido that brings
us to that climatic moment of ecstasy when we desire it most.
"Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias," (produced by
Grammy-winner Danny Blume, and co-produced by Matt Moran of Slavic
Soul Party) is the band's fourth album, and presents a phenomenal
collection of original songs as wild and eclectic as the band itself.
The Hungry March Band specializes in surprise radical encounters that
transform the mundane into the miraculous. "Portable Soundtracks for
Temporary Utopias" sets the tempo for a week of hi-jinks & pranks in
which the Hungry March Band will explode in music and create utopias
throughout New York City.
Please contact us for a review copy