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Folklife Bandemonium

when - 21 July, Humboldt Folklife Festival
5 pm

where - on a stage in front of Dell Arte main entrance

what - a program of music from wind band traditions around the world

how'd it go? - GREAT ! ! ! !

Here's links to recordings of the concert:

Highlife Hymn
Mere Hathon Mein
Bukovina
El Nino Perdido
Kocani Orkestar
Nkosa Sikelele
Marcha Alegre
Shyam
Torito Para Castillo
Disco Bhangra

Bandemonium Futures

I've been in touch with people organizing parade music for the North Country Fair which happens early in Sept. I think so I may soon be recruiting horn players to play loud, raucous music for a Samba parade

AND . . . there's interest from the Bayside Grange in offering rehearsal space for occasional performances so we may become Bayside Bandemonium or the Grange Band or something of the sort. There's an event for Dia de los Muertos coming up Nov. 7 for which I have offered a program of Mexican Brass Band music, so mark it on your calenders.
I can imagine it's still early for people to know about fall schedules but if there's any preferences for evenings to rehearse it's probably not too early to start thinking about it. I'm kind of partial to Sunday evenings.

I'll leave these links to study recordings of various groups playing this material:
From the Fortuna Bandemonium concert here's Anakkon, El Nino Perdido and Torito para Castillo
Here's a workshop group in Perigueaux, France playing Kocani Orkestar & Nkosa Sikelele
One of my Portuguese groups, A Banda Nova, plays Disco Bhangra & Highlife Hymn
The small portuguese group, Os Macacos das Ruas de Evora play Shyam
Here's the Garberville Town Band playing Mere Hathon Mein
And here's the Arcata half of the ensemble playing Marcha Alegre and Bukovina. Marinera got away, but we'll have to try again one of these days.
Recordings of original versions of most of this material can be found further down on this page.

and here's links to parts