Your Support Helps Fight Tyranny

In March, we returned from a trip into the Great White North, a fabulous 1500-mile voyage to Seattle, via Eugene and Portland. Check out the harrowing and titillating details of our journey right here on the Trash Orchestra Blog.

It included 12 performances in 5 days, in Eugene, Portland, and Seattle. It included an anti-war student walkout march in Portland and a street takeover in Georgetown, Seattle. We made connections up and down the coast and at Honk Fest West, across the country.

The trip cost the band about a thousand dollars. Would you be willing to kick-in $100 to help with the journey? Trash Orchestra is a grassroots shoestring endeavor. Your cash will help fight tyranny.

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Free Food and Music at the River Arts Festival

Trash Orchestra Performance
at the River Arts Festival
Sundays May 18th 11:30
at the Duck Pond
San Lorenzo Park
Santa Cruz, CA

According to the website, this is an exciting new annual festival celebrating the Monterey Bay's rich cultural and natural resources. The park's bench lands will be transformed into the "Piazza di San Lorenzo", an aesthetic contemporary arts and crafts marketplace.

We will be celebrating the "diversity of our town's tremendous cultural riches and creativity" in the very same park in which Santa Cruz police daily chase out modern day hobos and troubadours. So we hope to bring an illuminating vibe to the celebration.

We invite those who are down-and-out, itinerant, penniless, on the bum, dispossessed, destitute, homeless, broke down, busted, hard-up, on the skids, or just your punks or traveling kids to come enjoy a sunny day with food, music, and friends.

Food Not Bombs will be serving at the same time that Trash Orchestra starts.

We'll make a joyful noise and play for a time when the river will be unbounded by parks and levies and we'll all run wilder and freer.

Civic Auditorium at the Roller Derby

Playing for the Rollergirls on May 10th

Okay, this can't be missed. We're playing for the Santa Cruz Roller Girls.

Santa Cruz Rollergirls
Saturday May 10th 7pm
Civic Auditorium
307 Church St, Santa Cruz

The Santa Cruz Rollergirls, is the first all-female, full contact, flat-track derby league in Santa Cruz. The SCRG is a grassroots organization built by the hands of a small group of even-headed smart women who had the dream to bring the sport and art of roller derby back to Santa Cruz. This is a home game pitting the Beach Flat Betties against the Fistful of Dollies and we play halftime! Website

March, Rally and Direct Action Against Military Recruiters at UCSC

Military Recruiters have been blocked from recruiting for three years at UCSC, and have been absent for over a year now, but it looks like they're going to try and come back. The upcoming career fair has FBI, CHP, Santa Cruz Justice Department, U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corp, and the Army health department, along with a lot of other heinous corporations and institutions.

On April 22nd, recruiters returned to UCSC. Trash was there to help with the UnWelcoming Committee. The police presence was light, and though security within the job fair was tight, the marchers paraded and demonstrated relatively unimpeded.

Video from corpo media Scotts Valley Sentinel:

Why We Love Honk!

The Busiest Week of Trash Ever

Hey Trashinistas:

Looks like next week we are playing a bunch:

Sat Apr 19th	Homeless Garden Fundraiser
Sun Apr 20th	Regular Practice
Tue Apr 22nd	Counter-Recruitment March at UCSC
Sat Apr 26th	Our Free Skool workshop: Fun With Scrap Metal
San Apr 26th	Aromas Live!
Sun Apr 27th	Regular Practice

And somewhere in there, we were hoping to observe Gamelan Anak Swarasanti playing Balinese marching gamelan, beleganjur. The busiest week ever, not counting Honk! We hope you'll join us.

Check out our full performance schedule.