EE : Environmental Encroachment

About Me

Chicago performance art group Environmental Encroachmnet (EE) uses circus theatrics, live music and costumes to create unique entertainment environments, parades, processions, shows, punk artist marching band encroachments and art happenings.
EE combines a costumed marching band with multi-media stage performance antics including dancers, hooping, juggling and skits. EE wants people to interact, be a part, be curious, dance, play.
EE can do children's shows, Holiday events, street busking, tactical encroachments, festivals, rituals, ceremonies, vaudevillian skits, electric and accoustic music jams, funerals and births.

EE has performed:
World Refugee Day
Buddha's Peace and Happiness Parade
NASCAR
Lollapalooza
Puppetropolis
Krannert Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Houston Art Car Parade and Museum
Chicago Folk and Roots Fest
Chicago World Music Festival
Burning Man
Chiditarod Absurd Shopping Car Race
Rotary International Centennial
World Naked Bike Ride

*EE on National Public Radio!
Click to link to EE's interview about HONK Festival, October 2007
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/2007/10/06/ma rching_bands_in_th.html

*Click to view EE in Time Out magazine: May 2007 : Featured Article!

Here are EE band member's myspace sites
MikeEE

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/13/2005
Band Website: encroach.net
Band Members:

Mikee - Trombone
Dan - Trombone
Rich C - Trombone
Cale - Trombone/flute/flag
Jimmy V - Baritone Sax
Josh - Tenor Sax
Leslie Pirate Riot - Alto Sax
David - Percussion, Theremin
John - Flip-Flopsy - Bass
Charlie - congas
Carlos Desperdicio - Percussion
Blake - Percussion
Markus - Drums
FrankL - Drums
Barjees Buns - Trumpet/Vocals
Caitlan - Drums
Becky Slaptone - Drums
Frank T - Guitar
Adam Zeisler - Juggler
Ellie - Hoop

Troops and ALUMNI : Dave Christensen, Natalie D, Mickey Mike, Sache, Bret, Jeni Swerdlow, Robin Barcus, Heather and Quentin, Jamie Topper "Jims Bendira", Pong, Whitey, Bobby Danger, Shane, Evelina, Matthew, Troy, Laurie, Spark "Ha Ish Zekeem", Mike Morton, TJ Darwin, KarmaCarmellina, Tyna, Rachelle, Michael Wolven, Josh, Ben and all Burners, Steve Raden, The Rev. Larry Mu, Tom Dennehy "Breakfast", JR Bob Dobbs, Coriander, Willis, Deron, Vinnie, Peter K, Patrick, Steve Peto, Fitz, Rick Bach, Eric A, Andrea, Jose C, Dave Meyers, Arturo, Eduardo, Phil, John Rice, Rachel Thoele, Roxanna, Lane, Cindy L, Ruth, MetaStu, Troy, Sebastion and Zoey, special thanks to AmyJ costumes

PHOTOGS: Alyce Henson, Saverio Truglia, Hayley Murphy, Danislav Merlosovich, Storch

Influences: folk, trance, funk, P-Funk, James Brown , Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Louis, Duke, Bix, New Orleans, SouthCentralNorth America, Africa, Morocco, Cuba, Mali, Haiti, Dogon, Nibiru, Sitchin, Asia, activists, environments, clowns, Merry Pranksters, Frankie Capri, Jah, marching bands, woodstock, burning man, sesame street, mr rogers, chic-a-go-go, Gnaowa, Berbers, Voodoo, Congas, Carnivale, Merengue, Sahhhhlsa, gnomes, organics, busking, raw street art, spontanaity, hip-hop, Monk, Tito Puente, snotgurgle the troll, Piasa Bird, ancient astronauts of Ohm-Bah, Tofishy,
Sounds Like: Gnomes playing Oscar De Leon, Gypsy Pirates playing Moroccan music, P-Fun not on crack, aliens simultaneously seeping up from the ground playing theremin, Whale orgy, funky ancient astronauts, Dixieland Carnivale, Dogon processions, Berber drumline, the navigational shriek of the gaitas, Chicagoans can't escape da Blues, multi-rhythmic trance convulsions/nirvanna, "the new Chicago sound", XTREME energy, what we look like, how we live.
Record Label: EE - We've got DVD's too! - www.encroach.net
Type of Label: None