Just when you thought it was safe to walk the streets of Asbury Park without dodging hordes of hungry zombies, word comes that the boulevards, boardwalks and bowling alleys of that salty old city are due to be invaded by the Hungry March Band.
The mobile musical unit, which brought an amazingly original take on the parade-music paradigm during a previous strut to the seashore, stands as one of the longest established standard bearers of what’s being called the Radical Street Band Underground. The HMB returns this weekend to the center lanes of one of our favorite repurposed nightspots for a special Brass ‘n Bowl event, a way-out entry in their own BONK! Festival of Brooklyn-based ballyhoos.
Today’s edition of Red Bank oRBit goes behind the spitvalve for an exclusive chat with a couple of Hungry March regulars — including chief twirler and unofficial spokesperson  Sara Valentine (above). Among the Qs: is this is all some kind of revenge scenario for recovering high school band geeks?
But that’s not all: order in the next ten minutes and we’ll throw in, absolutely free, a look at this weekend’s Hooked on Arts Festival, a three-day celebration of Monmouth County creativity, brought to you (out at Sandy Hook’s Fort Hancock) courtesy of the Fort Foundation — an arts education organization headed up by controversial developer James S. Wassel. With the participation of folks like Mike and Nancy from The Showroom, local painter Sharon Hathaway, classic-rock prodigy Nick Piescor and more, it aims to be a uniter-not-a-divider. We’ve got the full rundown of affiliated events, plus lots more to come for the weekend, only in Red Bank oRBit.
