Every Friday in the weeks leading up HONK! Festival (October 10-12 in Boston) we’re previewing some of the performers who will be attending. This week, Yellow Hat Band, Titubanda, Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band, Tri-Battery Pops and The Loyd Family Players.
Yellow Hat Band
From Seattle, WA, the Yellow Hat Band supports community efforts of cooperation, celebration, art, empowerment, and sustainability. They play loud, fun music from all over the world: Indonesia to Yugoslavia, Klezmer to Bollywood. Learn more at Yellowhatband.org
Titubanda
Titubanda is a 35 piece brass band from Rome, Italy, playing everything from traditional Italian folk songs to avant-guard jazz via Latin American rhythms and Arabic melodies. A musical journey from Cuba to Bombay, through the Balkans and Cairo, reinterpreting classics and inspiring original compositions. Omnivorous, and with a robust appetite, the band loves not only traditional homely recipes but also exotic cuisine, spicy dishes – sometimes with the odd acid flavour. Visit Titubanda on their myspace.
Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band
From Somerville MA, we are a 15-piece “raucous, stomp-your-foot- and-belt-out-the-choruses” New Orleans-style street band. We are regular Joes and Janes with day jobs who combine music with social action — slamming out the sounds of the legendary Crescent City for peace rallies, street festivals, parades, funerals and benefits. Our motto: ”We aim to please if the cause is true and the time is right.” Watch and listen SLASPS on myspace.
Tri-Battery Pops
The residents of Tribeca and Battery Park City have combined to form the first downtown NYC volunteer community band in a century. The TriBattery Pops are a community-based bass brand that is made up of all kinds of folks: children, NYC residents, friends, merchants and politicians. The talented group, now infamous in local gatherings, play regularly at Washington Market Park, Downtown Little League opening days, as well as Fourth of July celebrations and Battery Park City’s Block party. Visit them at their website.
The Loyd Family Players
Born in Chico, raised up at Burning Man, and brought to urban fruition in Oakland, California, the Loyd Family Players take the pulse of traditional Brazilian samba and twist it into a loud, sweaty, sexy muss that’s all their very own. The ten-to-twenty-person coed percussion troupe swipes elements from hip-hop, dancehall, punk rock, drum n’bass, summer camp…anything goes. With members hailing from such exotic locales as England, Brazil, Rome, Peru, Antarctica, and Long Island, the Loyds are a foxy, unstoppable (and unstoppably foxy) dance machine. In the last several years the Loyds have earned a reputation as a commanding and jubilant festival band for their massive, moving performances. These shows sweep people into the parade, whether the band is passing through fairgrounds or taking the floor during a set change, making for an inclusive musical experience that keeps the band with the people and the people inside the music. Hear the Loyd Family Players at their myspace.
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