Tuesday, October 13th
Brass Mayhem! The
Elevens, Northampton, MA
The Pink Puffers Brass Band
(Rome) and the Yellow Hat Band (Seattle) join Rusty Belle, The Primate Fiasco,
and The Downside Up Circus at The Elevens, 140 Pleasant St., Northampton, MA. Doors open at 9pm; show
starts at 9:30pm. $5. 21+
View poster here: http://helios.hampshire.edu/~mlhHA/brass_mayhem_big.jpg
Download poster here: http://helios.hampshire.edu/~mlhHA/brass_mayhem_big.pdf
Directions to The Elevens: http://www.elevensmusic.com/directions.html
http://www.yellowhatband.org/main.html
On Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132194354437
Wednesday,
October 14th
The Brass Underground: Music, Public Space, Activism Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
View poster here: http://helios.hampshire.edu/~mlhHA/BrassUnderground_public.jpg
Download poster here: http://helios.hampshire.edu/~mlhHA/BrassUnderground_public.pdf
From 12-1pm, Circus Folk Unite! (http://circusfolkunite.googlepages.com/)
join the Pink Puffers and the Yellow Hat Band for a parade culminating in an
outdoor performance in Dakin Quad.
From 4-6pm in the Prescott Tavern,
Professor Michele
Hardesty will lead a discussion and workshop about brass/street bands,
community engagement, and political action!
*The
Street Band Underground: Where did
these bands come from? Presenters will include:
Stefanie Brendler, Hampshire College alumna, current member of the Yellow Hat Band and
former member of another legendary radical street band from Seattle, Infernal
Noise Brigade (http://www.infernalnoise.org/)
Daniel Lang/Levitsky & Kate Garaufis of Brooklyn rabble-rousers, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra (http://rudemechanicalorchestra.org/)
Marco Peris, current
member of Brass Liberation Orchestra (Oakland) (http://brassliberation.org/) and former
member of the Roman dance and drum ensemble Malamurga (http://malamurga.keybit.net/).
*Street
music, public space, and poverty campaigns in Northampton: How might we think about using collaborative,
cooperative street music projects to address local issues, such as the recent
campaigns against the panhandling ordinance and the BID in downtown
Northampton? Presenters will include Dave DelloRusso of the Northampton band The
Primate Fiasco (http://primatefiasco.com/),
plus other presenters to be announced.
*Participation! Bring an instrument and learn a song from the
shared repertoire of the Brass Underground! We will provide soundmakers for
those without instruments.
About the
bands
Pink
Puffers Brass Band (http://www.pinkpuffers.com/) is a
13-member marching band born from the social networks of brass bands in Italy
and the United States. Their repertoire encompasses funk, jazz, and metal. The
band plays almost every week in the streets and squares of Rome, as well as at
parties, weddings, festivals, both in Rome and in and other cities and
countries.
The Yellow
Hat Band (http://www.yellowhatband.org/) are a
8-14 piece brass band from Seattle who play an international repertoire of
brass band music: Balkan brass-band, Klezmer, Bollywood, and beyond. Always
open to new members, the YHB is dedicated to supporting community efforts of
cooperation, celebration, art, empowerment, and sustainability.
Sponsored by Community Partnerships for Social Change, the Office
of Alumni and Family Affairs, COCA, Circus Folk Unite!, the Music Program, and
the School of Arts, Humanities, and Cultural Studies.
On Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=168592547639
Directions to Hampshire College and a
campus map: http://www.hampshire.edu/discover/976.htm
For more information about these
events, contact Michele Hardesty: mhardesty@hampshire.edu
All participants are
traveling to Western Mass in the wake of the fourth annual Honk! Festival of Activist Street Bands
in Somerville, MA. http://honkfest.org/
