Biography
The Hungry March Band has performed at a huge variety of fine venues and celebrated events. Such planned and spontaneous performances have included mermaid parades, guerrilla art events, rural raves, subway parties, eccentric weddings, community affairs, protests, high art events, the Staten Island Ferry, Coney Island boardwalks, MOMA, Lincoln Center, playing themselves in the final scene of John Cameron Mitchell's recent film "Shortbus" and many other forays into the territories of free spirit.
Our 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.
We have been featured in articles in the New York Times, The Village Voice, London Times, New York Post, Time Out New York, New York Press, Tokyo Times, various European publications and have countless mentions in blogs, various zines and web articles. We have appeared on several TV networks including Lifetime, CNN, NY1, march bys on the fly with ABC, NBC, CBS as well as appearances in several documentaries including an HMB feature Rockumentary, 'A Cat in a Bag'. We are available to play festivals, parties, parades, community celebrations, clubs, conventions, birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and remain open to suggestion!
Please see our separate HMB performance list on our website, which is always in need of updates as it is difficult to keep up with the tremendous volume of events.
HMB Pleasure Society are select funky dancers and performers with the band. For NYC parades and events, this could expand to 75 'Second Line' performers adding so much spice with their vibrant dancing, costumes, baton twirling, fire spinning, hoola-hooping, gymnastics, stilt walking, and puppeteering.
Instrumentation
The HMB needs a minimum of 11-14 musicians for accurate representation for a show. We also have several auxiliary players in the Pacific Northwest, France, Italy, and Germany. We have a very effective online system of determining the availability and coverage for all sections.
TRUMPETS
John Waters
Johnny Heyenga
Jeremy Mushlin
SAXOPHONES
Sasha Sumner
Jason Candler
Okkon Tomohiko
Emily Fairey
Ruth Walker
TROMBONES
Sebastian Isler
Cecil Scheib
Jen Emma Hertel
SOUSAPHONE/TUBA
Tom Abbs
DRUMS
Adam Loudermilk
Kris Anton
Kevin Raczka
Theresa Guitjens
Samantha Tsistinas
PLEASURE SOCIETY DANCERS
Libby Stephens-Sentz
Evelyn Fugate
Sara Valentine
Sandra Glazer
Albert Guitjens
Discography
The following self-released titles are available in iTunes and via CDBaby:
Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias (2007)
Critical Brass (2004)
On the Waterfront (2003)
Hungry March Band Official Bootleg (2001)
The most recent, 'Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias', (produced by Grammy-winner Danny Blume, and co-produced by Matt Moran of Slavic Soul Party) presents a phenomenal collection of original songs as wild and eclectic as the band itself. The HMB specializes in surprise radical encounters that transform the mundane into the miraculous. 'Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias' set the tempo for a week of hi-jinks & pranks, HMB's Seven Days of 23 minute Utopias, destined to explode in music and create utopias throughout New York City, resulted in widespread surprise and joy along with a few tickets for disturbing the peace, all of which were dismissed, as at the time the peace needed disturbing.
Our third release, 'Critical Brass' was recorded at Loho Studios, NYC, in the Spring of 2004 merely days after returning from a very successful European tour. Our second release 'On the Waterfront' (2003) was recorded in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and dedicated to the hallowed grounds upon which the tunes were wrought. The virgin debut, 'Hungry March Band Official Bootleg', (2001) consists of a series of live recordings and is considered an historical reference for exercises in wind, percussion and fluid dynamics
We also appear on the following compilations:
Mehanata New York Gypsymania (2005)
Sorryeverybody.com (2005)
LES Garden Compilation (2005/forthcoming)
Sbandata Romana Festival Compilation (2004)
Links
| http://www.hungrymarchband.com |
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| facebook fan page |