Tue 5.3 – MarchFourth Marching Band

Loyal Family presents…

MarchFourth Marching Band (Portland, OR)

Big Beat / Theatrics / Alternative

8pm Doors / 9pm Show / 21+ / $10 >> Buy Tickets

MarchFourth Marching Band is a mobile big band spectacular, consisting of a brassy pack of saxophones, trombones, and trumpets, a raucous drum/percussion corps, anchored by a mobile and wireless electric bass. The sound is huge, melodic, and dynamic, taking audiences on a musical journey around the globe. MarchFourth wri…tes and performs its own material, and also draws inspiration from an eclectic range of worldwide influences, such as Eastern European gypsy brass, samba, latin, funk, afro-beat, big-band, jazz, and rock music, as well as television, film, circus, and vaudeville.

Stilt-walkers, unicycles, fire-eaters, puppets, flag twirlers, burlesque dancers, clown antics, and acrobatics are just some of the things you’ll see accompanying this eclectic big band. MarchFourth Marching Band’s stilt-walkers are world-class, performing acrobatics, dance routines, and even fire dancing on stilts — all in fanciful costumes. The other dancing beauties can fill the stage with mesmerizing original dance routines (inspired by bollywood, hip hop, jazz, cheer leading, burlesque, ballroom, and more) or spread out into the audience and get everybody dancing. The musical quality, the energy of the band, and the spectacle of the dancers all combine to create an original performance that appeals to everyone. Without guitars or keyboards, M4 “rocks” with the best of them, entertaining the audience with an over-the-top explosion of performance, color and charisma.

To MarchFourth Marching Band, art is life. Aside from being performers, the members of MarchFourth are also full- or part-time artists, designers, and craftspeople. All their drum harnesses (welded from recycled bicycle parts), stilts, costumes, merchandise, audio, and visual propaganda are designed and produced by members of the band.

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