Hot!, Hot!, Hot!

It was hotter than a four dollar furnace on Sunday as the band marched through East Van to Strathcona Park to kick off Justice Rocks.

Katrina, of Bolting Brassicas fame

Eddie, Lexi, Julie

Roisin

The Story Box Project

Storyeum is a great performance space, unless you’re a photographer.

It’s dark in there.


Susan
On August 6 Storyeum was temporarily transformed into an art gallery. The Carnival Band along with Pepe Danza and the Upbeats provided the music.


Ann and Sam

Heidi

Pride Parade 2010

Tami, Steph and Darrell

This year the band was adopted by Raincity Housing to play in the parade.

Mr. and Mrs. Cousins

The band was accompanied by the Txi’s colourful and very athletic Umbrella Odyssey

Nearing the end on Beach Ave.

Illuminaries 2010

This could be the first time the Carnival Band has taken the show to a DTES alley.

This year Public Dreams brought Illuminaries to W2, the old/new Woodward’s site. The event included indoor and outdoor performances.

Andrew, Ann, Dom, JohnC (and Pierrette, Tara’s Mom)


Tim, Roisin, Andrew, Samantha


Fred, Roisin, Marc

Mike Antares’ HONK! Photos

Mike Antares, the photographer for Minor Mishap Marching Band of Austin, TX, has just uploaded about 30 HONK! Fest West images to the band’s flickr pool.

Tara

James X. Griffiths

For many more great images from HONK! Seattle check out

There are numerous excellent, heretofore unseen, shots of Carnival Bandits including this shot of Roisin at Seattle Centre

Roisin


Greetings From Malawi

Duncan McNicholl, one of the band’s most excellent trumpet players, is working in Africa.

You can follow Duncan’s adventures and efforts to bring clean water to Malawi by subscribing to his blog,

Duncan sends his love to the Carnival Band.

Jesse, Lisa, Duncan at Pride ’09