Second line, Rihanna, Lil' John, Camp Lakota, FoGoNaroupa, Rebirth Brass Band, Edinburgh Samba School, Afro Reggae, Quimbanda, MIA, the Bay City Rollers, Curtis Pierre, Olodum, Tom Waits, Gamelan X, . Yeah, it's like that.
Sounds Like
The Loyd Family Players at Burning Man 2006. Footage shot and edited by nuanmedium (other works can be seen at www.nuanmedium.com OR www.youtube.com/nuanmedium)
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Loyd Family @ Groove Garden Anniversary 2008 Fairfax CA
Born in Chico, raised up at Burning Man, and brought to urban fruition in Oakland, California, the Loyd Family Players take the pulse of traditional Brazilian samba and twist it into a loud, sweaty, sexy muss that's all their very own. The ten-to-twenty-person coed percussion troupe swipes elements from hip-hop, dancehall, punk rock, drum n'bass, summer camp...anything goes. With members hailing from such exotic locales as England, Brazil, Rome, Peru, Antarctica, and Long Island, the Loyds are a foxy, unstoppable (and unstoppably foxy) dance machine. In the last several years the Loyds have earned a reputation as a commanding and jubilant festival band for their massive, moving performances. These shows sweep people into the parade, whether the band is passing through fairgrounds or taking the floor during a set change, making for an inclusive musical experience that keeps the band with the people and the people inside the music.
Oh my god we missed you guys. Amazing performers, amazing people. I just hope last night's dose of Loyd was enough to get us through until your next visit.
THE WHY BECAUSE, GOODRIDDLER, and VOICES (The Why Because plays first, then Goodriddler, then Voices) Wednesday, January 16th @ Epic Arts 1927 Ashby Ave. Berkeley 94705 Doors @ 8pm, show @ 8:30 $5 donation - All Ages
This cool little venue is right by the Ashby BART station. Feel free to tell some friends... Hope to see you there!
NOOOOOO!!!!!! We'll be out of town at a Bellydance Festival when you come to Chico next weekend!!!! DAMN IT!!! We'll miss you all terribly. Love, ORIGIN
Motha fucka! What a rockin fun time we had at the big radical marching band hoohaw in Oakland. Thanks a ton to the Loyd Family Players, Brass Liberation Orchestra, and March Fourth. We danced our asses off, blew our eardrums out, and schmoozed the night away.
We went up there on a Trash Orchestra field trip. We were talking for hours and hours about shit we saw, shit we heard, shit we learned, people we met.
We loved the all-drum bone rattling sound of the Loyd Family. Loved the dynamic and many-flavored rotating band leader action of BLO.
I won't be content until I've slept with each and every one of the members of all those bands.
Yo, we love the work you do to fight oppression and this bullshit system of exploitation. When you're working to shut down the war machine, environmental destruction, the world free trade efforts, racist and classist mofos, corporate swine and their media lapdogs, repressive laws, the fascist police state, and capitalism itself -- when you're working to support indigenous rights, the freedom of women and children (and men, for that matter), civil liberties and free speech, poor people and homeless folk -- when you're engaged in anarchist and anti-authoritarian struggles -- we want to help!
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. We show up invited and uninvited at protests and celebrations, furors and fracases.
Invite us next time there's a need to make a ruckus, to shout out and make a big noise. We're there.
CONGRATS! on some tail-shakin, ass-rompin music! It would be criminal for us not to meet up at the burn. EE: 3.14 between e and f. LOOK US UP if we don't find you first. We've got some jams planned already, please come and play! C U at HONK FEZT for sure, but lets playa-it-up! Environmental Encroachment Marching Band! www.encroach.net
We went up there on a Trash Orchestra field trip. We were talking for hours and hours about shit we saw, shit we heard, shit we learned, people we met. 
