Hungry March Band

Location:
BROOKLYN, New York, US
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Other / Nu-Jazz / Alternative
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Label:
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The Hungry March Band blows through the city on the shoulders of Chaos, careening among ecstatic melodies and torrential rhythms, leaving a unique residue of delight in its wake. A spitfire band of both Main Street and the side street, the HMB is likely to show up at any number of places: community demonstrations, dog parades, fancy weddings, jazz funerals, famous New York City clubs, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Mediterranean islands, and the luckiest subway cars on the planet.



The band was born in 1997 on the Brooklyn water-front, just in time for the Coney Island Mermaid Day Parade, and is now a booming ensemble of saxes, trombones, trumpets, sousaphones, and a full percussion section. They are often joined by the Pleasure Society, a troupe of baton twirlers, hula hoopers, and dancers, who blur the boundary between band and audience.



Vigorously digesting music from wherever brass bands are heard — the Balkans, India, New Orleans, Latin America — and combining it with a knowledge of big band, free jazz, and punk rock, the Hungry March Band blares forth with one of the most original musical voices in NYC.



"This feisty bunch gets down with some monster grooves, New Orleans-like funeral & marching music, foot-stomping cartoon-like hilarity, post-klez and other ethnic music mayhem. A complete blast."



-Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery, NYC



".the irrepressibly entertaining Hungry March Band takes over the club."



-The New Yorker



"The Hungry March Band is a mix of quirkiness and tradition."



-Andy Newman, New York Times



"Brooklyn phenomena the Hungry March Band. with the power of a Bourbon Street hurricane."



-Dan Aquilante, New York Post



"Dirty Dozen Brass Band crossed with. the Sun Ra Arkestra."



-Laura Shin, Time Out NY
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