EVERETT — For people who dig the music festival scene, the MarchFourth Marching Band is a must-see.
Less of a marching unit than a vaudeville show, the band will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, at the Historic Everett Theatre.
The 30-member band had its origins at a Fat Tuesday party (March 4 in 2003) in Portland, and has grown into its reputation as a “festival favorite.”
The band includes electric bass, a percussion corps, six horns, guitars, singers, acrobats and dancers.
“With a rallying cry of ‘JOY NOW,’ the band (known as M4 by its growing legion of fans) throws itself and the audience into a swirling volcano of high-energy music and spectacle,” reads a description on the band’s website. “In one set the band will take you on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the gypsy camps of eastern Europe to the African jungle by way of Brazil, along the way stopping to sample the deepest grooves of the best of American brass-rock-funk, peppered with moments of swing, jazz, bollywood, ska and metal, and boiling it all together in cinematic fashion with high-stepping stilt-acrobatics and sexy dancers.”
And, reportedly, every show is different.
MarchFourth Marching Band has shared the stage with a wide variety of acts, including Pink Martini, Budos Band, Balkan Beat Box, Trombone Shorty, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Beats Antique, Bassnectar, Antibalas, Melvin Seals, The Motet, Hot Buttered Rum and Yard Dogs Road Show.
They plan to bring along discs and song books to sell.
For tickets, go to www.historiceveretttheatre.org or call 425-258-6766. The theater is located at 2911 Colby Ave., Everett. More about the band is at marchfourthmarchingband.com.
Gale Fiege: 425-339-3427; gfiege@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @galefiege.
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