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Hungry March Band

Roaring out of Brooklyn NYC, the Hungry March Band is the greatest brass march band of all time. The HMB is based in New York City. We are a community group with a membership as diverse as our music. Put on your dancing shoes and break out the fancy threads because we’ve got the party going on - a blazing parade of flesh, blood, steel, brass, and wood. We are the music of the people!

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, and New York One, 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 have performed in a huge variety of fine venues and celebrated events. The band is infamous for playing shows that are somewhere between legendary and magical. Such planned and spontaneous performances have included guerilla art events, the Staten Island Ferry, NYC subways, Brighton Beach Boardwalks and steps of the NYC Post Office. Please see our separate HMB performance list.

We are available to play festivals, parties, parades, community celebrations, conventions, birthdays, weddings, bar mitzvahs…and remain open to suggestions!

HMB Pleasure Society and Second Line is an evolving extension of the band that adds so much spice to our parades and events, that includes a dedicated group, its participation in parade presentations feature up to 75 performers who reflect the music with their vibrant dancing, baton twirling, fire spinning, hula-hooping, gymnastics, stilt walking, and puppeteering.

Awards

Coney Island Mermaid Parade - Best Marching Group, Best Musical Group; Just Plain Folks 2006 Best Instrumental Jazz Song - "Jupanese Juju"


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Daniel Carter, Dick Griffin, Hungry March Band & More in a Fundraiser for Nietzsche Circle, NYC

Daniel Carter, Dick Griffin, Hungry March Band & More in a Fundraiser for Nietzsche Circle, NYC

Source: All About Jazz

REVEL, CELEBRATE, GATHER WITH US this Friday, February 16th from 7:30 PM to Midnight for a FESTIVE, DIONYSIAN NIGHT OF LIVE MUSIC, SPIRITS (the liquid kind) and Italian, Turkish, Greek and other delicacies. The evening will feature live performances by DANIEL CARTER (alumnus of Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Thurston Moore, Denis Charles, etc) featuring his project GHOST MOTH ...

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Hungry March Band throws a Red Ball, Feb. 17

Hungry March Band throws a Red Ball, Feb. 17

Source: All About Jazz

Hungry March Band presents: RED BALL FOR ALL!! Friday, Feburary 17th 8pm, $10 (half price with potluck offering) CBGB's Gallery 313 Bowery (at Bleeker) http://www.cbgb.com/ gallery.html (212) 677-0455 On Friday, February 17th, with the flush of Valentine's Day still on their cheeks, the Hungry March Band will throw a RED BALL FOR ALL at CBGB's Gallery. Punctuated by two bouts of HMB's steamy brass battery, the Red Ball will feature ...

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