12/26/2007
Philly Artists Determined to Cross Over Into the Surrealistic Mummer Dimension
If you live in Philadelphia and have ever hung around on Broad Street on New Year's Day, well you may have noticed all the colorful, eye-popping brigades trotting and dancing down the street in glorious celebration. Of course, I'm referring to the annual Mummer's New Year's Parade, a Philadelphia tradition that invites everyone's inner freakiness to come out and play. Man, it's a blast! The costumes! The music! The soft-pretzels! Yeeee!
Bewildered by all of the excitement, at times you may have even been inspired to JOIN one of those brigades...or perhaps, dare you think it, start your own. Well, a group of local artists have dared to think it, and they need your support. Led by Sonja Trauss and Space 1026-er Aryon Hoselton, The Vaudevillains New Years Brigade is a collective of new-wave Mummer wanna-bes. They have put together an awesome ecological-themed routine with mashed up music, charming choreography and conceptual props, all in the hopes of crossing over into that surrealistic Mummer dimension. Let's help these kids live out their dream!
On the brigade's official site, you can contribute to their righteous cause, check out videos of their rehearsals and read about past events, including a 24-hour live Sew-a-thon.
I have provided their (final?) musical mash-up below (also available for download on their site.) From Bananarama to the Beatles, it's one mum-tastic mix!
Go Vaudevillains, go!
UPDATE: Vaudevillains get the Citypaper cover story...Read read read about it!
BREAKING NEWS: Head to Art in the Age for the riveting conclusion...featuring LIVE VIDEO! Yahooo!
MP3
Download 'Vaudevillains - Mummer Mix'1:53 | 3.44MB
Posted by Michael on 12/26/2007 12:46 PM in Experimental, WTF?, Local Music, Events
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