Gault Halloween / Día De Los Muertos Parade

Trash Orchestra marched at the head of the 59th annual Gault Elementary Halloween Parade. It starts at 9am on a Saturday morning and, thanks to Trash Orchestra, woke up several whole neighborhoods.

We didn't get a ribbon in the parade, though as the only marching band, we figured we should get an award for noisiest or Best Marching Band, but alas, we had to ground score our ribbon. We're not sure what ESBA stands for maybe East Side Business Association? (On second thought maybe we didn't need a ribbon.)

We hope to return next year. We loved marching with the kids and loved the covetous looks on their faces that said, "Whoa, loud."

A Distraction While You Rob a Bank

Friends,

We're still willing to help out with all the shit you're doing. We think you're awesome. We think your uncompromising stand against authority, against tyranny is inspiring. We want to help.

Invite us to wade through teargas with you, or break through police lines, to create a disraction while you rob a bank to redistribute the wealth in the name of the Cause. Invite us to help tear down the walls of oppression -- understand that it is totally okay if you mean this literally.

Trash Orchestra is a marching percussion band – a bone-shaking recycled orchestra. We make percussion on tuned cans, hubcaps and barrels, drums, pieces of sheet metal, and homemade oddities.

If you are far from the West Coast, more advance notice is better and maybe some help getting and staying there. But we are game to consider anything.

We'd love to do what we can to support your efforts.

Photos, audio, rants, etc at www.trashorchestra.org

Cheers!

Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra

UCSC Reclaim the Streets

Our next performance is this Friday. This is a march and street party to raise awareness of and resistance to the UCSC Long-Range Development Plan, including campus plans to log up to 150 acres of upper campus forest, a new entrance and road through the upper campus, and meadows and woods plowed under to make room for parking lots and athletic fields.

We'll meet 4pm at the field behind Merill College at UCSC. It will be a long march through several of the colleges. Wear good shoes and comfy clothes. If you can't make this Bataan Death March, you can meet us at Porter Quad with your instrument where we will end up in an ear-shattering performance.

Meet THIS FRIDAY 4PM AT THE UCSC FIREHOUSE NEAR CROWN COLLEGE. Here's a map: http://maps.ucsc.edu/cmcrown.html

What if it rains? We get wet! What if no one shows up but us? We go and get beers!

See you there!

Santa Cruz
Trash Orchestra

Trash Orchestra Parades to Mime Troupe's Making a Killing

Article and photographs by ~Bradley
Indybay Santa Cruz

On September 23rd, the Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra led a noisy parade to the San Francisco Mime Troupe performance of Making a Killing, Building a New Iraq. In the style of a cacerolazo, parade-goers beat on makeshift drums and tambourines while marching as a metallic cacophony from Laurel Street up Pacific Avenue and across the river to San Lorenzo Park. The parade lacked a clear message and was appreciated by many people walking and photographing on Pacific Avenue. A focus of the Trash Orchestra parade was to attract people the SFMT's performance, while other folks joined the parade to outreach about Sleep Crimes in Santa Cruz.

For a review of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's Making a Killing, Building a New Iraq and a look at how questionable government contracting reaches all the way from Afghanistan to Santa Cruz, in the form of city contractor Camp Dresser Mckee, read:

"Making a Killing in Iraq" comes to Santa Cruz - in more ways than one
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/09/25/18449683.php

Resisting

Shake a Leg

Cacerolazo

Conducting

Fresh

Recycle

Garage

A Killing

Trash on Water

San Francisco Mime Troupe

San Lorenzo Park

Translator and Photographer

San Francisco Mime Troupe
http://www.sfmt.org