"You all sound like a kick ass group of activists. The next time I'm in Santa Cruz, I'll look for you. Keep causing trouble, we need more troublemakers in this world, especially noisy ones." --Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
About Trash Orchestra
Santa Cruz Trash Orchestra is a performance and marching percussion band, whose instruments are composed exclusively of recycled and reclaimed materials, focused on anarchist and anti-authoritarian struggles and mutual support for groups making radical social change.
We make percussion on tuned cans, hubcaps and barrels, drums, pieces of sheet metal, and homemade oddities. We are a bone-shaking recycled orchestra – a sonic force of fiery resistance!
We appear invited and uninvited at protests and celebrations, furors and fracases, anywhere there's a need to make a ruckus, to shout out and help fight injustice, suffering, and oppression, to make a big noise to celebrate our victories and our losses.
Band Members
Elrod - canstrument, snare, whistle, scrap a-go-go
Gus - wrenchaphone, big blue barrel
Angel Baby - hubcap, pylaphone
Lynn - steel pan, snare, green bin
Alhueche - wine bottles, big blue drum
Saska - pot lid hi-hat, bass kick pedal
Kimihiko Fresh - canstrament, junk trumpet
Corky - saw, wheel barrel, green meanie
Vasistha - hubcaps, tray o' trash, snare
...as well as dozens of other great players including Buba, Gertrude, Hector, Cynthia, Blane, Mimi, and Triana.
Current Vision
We want to see the Trash Orchestra grow to dozens of regular players. We are working toward frequent practices and appearances, invites from far and wide pouring in to make noise and celebration in places across the globe. We see everyone in the band becoming virtuosos of their own handmade musical creations. We are ambitious in our plans to conquer the world and make it a better place full of music and dancing and resistance. We're pretty serious about this, so you wanna join us?
An Open Invitation and an Offer
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