Guerrilla marching band takes Detroit by surprise

[Pam]

This popped up on Yahoo news today.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/detroitnws/detroitnws_ts3666

Pretty awesome.

[DetroitPlanner]

Beautiful! We need more of that sort of stuff around here!

[LodgeDodger]

I think it's a fun concept--in moderation.

[Pam]

This is the festival mentioned in the article.

http://honkfest.org/about/#video

[gazhekwe]

What fun! Surprise band appearances really give a great lift. I have been present at two, one was a troupe of Morris Dancers that invaded a pub in Stratford as we were having lunch, and then there were the bagpipers that came in playing to an Irish pub somewhere in the northern suburbs where we were having dinner. I can still call up that feeling of joyful surprise at the free and unusual musical treat.

[1KielsonDrive]

Is it the same marching band that swept through the Dally during the rainfall?

[fryar]

This is the festival mentioned in the article.
http://honkfest.org/about/#video

I don't know. They don't have an entry for Detroit at http://honkfest.org/all-bands/. You might be better informed than me. They do have a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/DetroitPartyMarchingBand.

From the article linked to above:
A couple of spectators at a recent crash at Cass Cafe moved to Detroit from India just a month ago and said they found the city kind of dull until the Detroit Party Marching Band showed up.

Good stuff.

[1KielsonDrive]

Hey, wouldn't it be cool to have a whole marching band show up for Open-Mic/Stage? Pass the word on.

[G-DDT]

I was laying my head down last night, when the memory came to me in a flash-The Detroit Party Marching Band was one of the bands marching and performing at a festival in Cambridge/Somerville,MA in 2011 called Honk! [[not to be confused with Pronk!-which happens in Providence). Food-Not-Bombs catered the food there.

I missed the previous year, but supposedly this started as an event to party crash the game events transpiring in Harvard in early October. The marching bands convene in Davis Square, Somerville and proceed to march and play on down through Porter Square where they all congregate in Harvard Square in jubilee. It's mostly an activist based function, but it embodies a lot of the spirit the older Dally's possessed.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2daMVvOpdQ
Daniel Stodolsky captured them marching through Davis [[4:38) and F-N-B shows up at 10:35 [[he has Tibetan supporters on the second video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC6GDUfrS7Q. 1130am caught them up in Davis.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bs7W-AziA4 Plus this one Colin McMillen caught. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8tV6bCYCi8Leeor Schweitzer [[who has great videos) caught them here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHKL4n4PU5U OtherMarc12 caught them at later fests I was absent from.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np7JTFUyFV0

[EastsideAl]

I was in London during the 2012 Olympics when I suddenly saw and heard this badass band coming down the street:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOEphYMu-iA

The people all around were ecstatic at the sudden appearance of such an awesomely entertaining spectacle and began dancing as they followed them down the street. And I unexpectedly found myself with tears in my eyes. I had a couple of minutes to talk to some of these kids from back home, which was a wonderful experience.

[G-DDT]

We need to cheer more of these bands on to get something together and make more appearances [[like the Dally coming up in less than six weeks) around the area..