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Hello Music 185R! What up? Or should I say... What Cheer? Please Join Me on This Journey In Getting to Know the Best Marching Band of the 21st Century, the What Cheer? Brigade from Providence, RI!!!!! I sat down with three veteran ensemble members and had a long phone chat with a former member. This is the result of that research along with troves from regular old web-based digs. Enjoy!


What Cheer? Live

Dan Schleifer, tuba, current bandleader, kind of

What Cheer? Does a Movie

What Cheer? Rocks a Boat

What Cheer? Playing Under a Bridge in PVD

What Cheer? Rocks Another Boat


FORMATION/INFLUENCES

What Cheer?'s Original Autobiography

Maya and Paul Are the "founder founders"

Current Ensemble Members

Hungry Marching Band (NYC)

Extra Action (Oakland, CA)

Infernal Noise Brigade (Seattle)

Lightning Bolt (Providence)

Volume as Ensemble Goal or Survival Tool?


Norlan Surfs on a Drum


Joey Quits/Downtown Boys

Joey Quits His Job At the Renaissance Hotel

Downtown Boys (PVD)

Downtown Boys as WC?B Splinter Group

Joey Talks About the Politics of Horn Music


What Cheer?'s Relationship to Honk/Identity as Activist Band

What Cheer? Was Honk B4 Honk

Intention to get more rigorous about what it means to be an activist band

Dan: Who is Honk For?








Cross-Rhtyhms


The Ecstatic Pedagogy of What Cheer? Brigade


Jori on NUA/WC?B Pedagogy


PRX Piece on Recess Tour (2006)


Future of What Cheer? / The Emotional Tenor of the Band


Dan on Question of the Towel


Jori on the Admin Issue


Intention to Educate Young Trumpet Players


Chris: Make Someone Cry