Performances
Part of the attraction for band members, spectators, and participants alike is the band's ability to move anywhere relatively quickly without need of electricity or artificial amplification. They have become infamous for their participation in audacious performances in unlikely locations, including subway trains, the Staten Island Ferry, and unannounced street events. They have also played numerous outdoor festivals in New York and around Europe, various protest marches, and at Madison Square Garden during one of Ralph Nader's super rallies during his 2000 bid for the presidency of the United States which included a rally on the steps of the main branch of the USPO. HMB toured Europe in the summers of 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009; New Orleans, Louisiana during Mardi Gras 2005; has often played at Rubulad in Brooklyn; and has also performed in Boston, MA and Providence, RI, at the HONK! Festival in Somerville, MA, at the Mummer's Parade in Philadelphia, PA, and at the 24-Hour Tom Waits Festival near Poughkeepsie, New York. Around New York they have performed at Lincoln Center and countless clubs throughout the five boroughs. In 2010, their concert from the 2009 Sant'Anna Arresi Jazz Festival in Sardinia was broadcast on Radio3 throughout Italy. On May 27, 2010, their performance of Conduction No. 188 under the baton of Butch Morris was also broadcast nationally throughout Italy.
The band also makes an appearance in John Cameron Mitchell's 2006 movie Shortbus.
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Famous quotes containing the word performances:
“At one of the later performances you asked why they called it a “miracle,”
Since nothing ever happened. That, of course, was the miracle
But you wanted to know why so much action took on so much life
And still managed to remain itself, aloof, smiling and courteous.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“This play holds the season’s record [for early closing], thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence it ran just five performances too many.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)