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>> 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.

>>>>For more info see: http://helios.hampshire.edu/~mlhHA/BrassUnderground_public.htm <<<<