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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 21/09/2026

We love you, PVDfest! Thanks for hanging out with us this weekend.

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 31/08/2026

We are so proud of our bandmates who made the trek and showed up for democracy. Thank you to our new friends in the DC Activist Street Band for the great jams and hospitality! All photos Courtesy ©️ Lloyd Wolf www.lloydwolf.com

Two musicians’ backs with signs, one reading NO KINGS EXCEPT MARTIN LUTHER and the other reading PROTECT TRANS KIDS

Musicians dancing in front of the Reflecting Pool

A brass band in largely red attire playing in front of the Reflecting Pool

A saxophone player jamming next to a march attendee who is pretending to play air saxophone

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 31/08/2026

So it was this weekend, when a handful of ERB members literally drove through the night to team up with the DC Activist Street Band for the Defend the Vote March on Washington.

A brass band in largely red attire singing

Percussionists playing in front of the Reflecting Pool

A brass band in largely red attire walks past a LET FREEDOM RING sign

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 31/08/2026

For as much as we love playing in and around Rhode Island, we also love to travel to spread joy and solidarity wherever there are people to jam with.

A brass band in largely red attire poses in front of the Lincoln Memorial

A brass band in largely red attire marching behind a protestor with a Black Lives Matter sign

A brass band in largely red attire poses in a park

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 28/08/2026

What a night we had at Lippitt Park! Thank you to the city of Providence for sponsoring our show via the Ely Fund Performing Arts Series, to everyone who came out to dance with us, and to the good folks of Hope and Pawtucket who put up with our making a ruckus on a school night.

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 26/08/2026

Coming this Thursday to a neighborhood park near you…it’s ERB! Thanks to another generous sponsorship from Providence’s municipal Ely Fund program, we will be at Lippitt Park for an open rehearsal on August 27. Come out to hear the music — or sit in and jam with us!

A flier for the Extraordinary Rendition Band’s performance in Lippitt Park, Thursday 8/27 from 7:30-9 PM. It has a picture of a woman in red festive attire dancing with a white cloth with a brass band in the background.

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 28/07/2026

Megan’s pieces reflect on her connection with her father and the experience of navigating the healthcare system, including collaborations with him during his battle with cancer. It is a privilege to support our bandmates in their artistic endeavors, both within and outside of ERB!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 28/07/2026

One of our favorite types of gigs is getting to support an ERB member with their work outside our band. Saxophonist Megan Bent just had an art opening at Machines with Magnets as part of an exhibition called Afterlife.

A brass band dressed in red, white, and shiny attire plays instruments in a large white room

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 21/07/2026

We’ve got something extra special planned for rehearsal this week: We’ll be practicing in Riverside Park on Thursday night as part of Providence’s Ely Fund Neighborhood Performing Arts Series. Come on out to watch us…or play with us!

A poster advertising an open rehearsal with the Extraordinary Rendition Band, Thursday July 23 from 7:30-9pm in Riverside Park. The main image shows a bunch of musicians around an indoor stage with a man yelling, captioned “Join us in the park. Listen or play along!”

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 07/07/2026

POV: You’re walking into the @bostonlegacyfc.com game when a brass band shows up

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 07/07/2026

The Block Island Fourth of July parade is one of our favorite ERB traditions. This year we simply could contain our excitement — so we got the party started on the ferry!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 28/06/2026

Has the World Cup given you football fever? (That’s what we usually call soccer.) Then we have a fun announcement for you! ERB is playing before the @bostonlegacyfc.com game on Sunday, July 5 at Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 22/06/2026

Sure, our official performance at Rhode Island Pride was over at the end of the parade…but on a night as fun as Providence PrideFest, we’re just gonna keep on dancing!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 21/06/2026

Do these streets belong to the people? Si, si, si…especially during the Providence Pride Parade! Thank you to Rhode Island Pride and the amazing crowds who lined all of downtown for an amazing night!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 20/06/2026

Hope to see you all tonight at the Rhode Island PrideFest Illuminated Night Parade!

A brass band wearing red, white, and shiny attire playing in the streets of downtown in a flier advertising the RI PrideFest Illuminated Night Parade

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 20/06/2026

There’s nothing like an ERB parade — you can see the joy from the other night when we led the Tartan Army across the Pedestrian Bridge! Now imagine this scene…but with tens of thousands of people lining the whole of downtown in celebration of the LGBTQ+ community.

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 19/06/2026

They say “No Scotland, no party” — and after last night, we understand why! Thank you to the Tartan Army for dancing with us last night!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 18/06/2026

We dare say that the last time we showed up to play for the Scottish fans...we kilt it. Join us tonight at Hot Club for another fun evening of soccer and sousaphones!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 09/06/2026

Before and after at the North Kingstown Pride Parade…somehow our smiles are even bigger at the end of a long hot march? Thanks to the kind people of Wickford for a great day!

A brass band in red, white, and shiny attire poses with their instruments in a parking lot

A brass band in red, white, and shiny attire poses for a selfie in a park

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 07/06/2026

ERB is ERBusy! A few of the great gigs coming up.

Photo of band with trumpets in foreground with legend “summer gigs”

6/18-hot club at 10pm, 6/20, pride illuminated night parade, 7/4 block island 4th of July parade, 7/23 riverside park.

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 05/06/2026

If there’s one thing you can count on with ERB, it’s that we love playing Pride parades. Hope to see you on Sunday for our first one of the month, in North Kingstown!

A colorful poster advertising the North Kingstown Pride Parade Sunday June 7th and noon, from Wickford Town Dock to Wickford Middle School

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 31/05/2026

A few behind the scenes sparkles from today’s beautiful @risd1877.bsky.social graduation. Congratulations to the class of 2026!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 30/05/2026

UPDATE: Despite our sunny disposition, ERB's Porchfest performance has been canceled. We'll still be around today to support other great musicians, including our friends in Anchors Away and Tin Roof. Hope to see you out there!

Screenshot of an Instagram post advertising a planned performance that is crossed out with CANCELED! written in big letters

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 30/05/2026

The rain can't dampen our spirits for one of our favorite days of the year! Hope to see you this afternoon at Porchfest — whether it's at our set at 2pm, or while watching one of the dozens of other great musicians performing for free in a near neighborhood near you!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 28/05/2026

Who let the dogs out? We don’t know, but we sure are excited about it! Hope to see you today at the East Greenwich Dog Parade!

Poster advertising the DOGS ON MAIN STROLL on May 28, 2026 on Main Street in East Greenwich

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 27/05/2026

ERB is ready to make some raucous musical joy at Providence Porchfest this weekend! Come Electric Slide with us on Saturday, 2 PM at 365 Elmgrove

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 14/05/2026

Our May Day march culminated in a super fun set at Arbeiter Brewing. Thank you @shaybaybayne for capturing part of the party!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 11/05/2026

POV: You’re at the Minneapolis Mayday parade when a band from Rhode Island shows up 📹 @johnsteitz.bsky.social

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 10/05/2026

“Spontaneous moments of raucous musical joy” is literally the ERB tagline. It’s hard to think of a moment more spontaneous or joyful than this chance encounter with the beautiful newlyweds Summer and Joshua at the Minneapolis Mayday parade last weekend. So glad the SousaCam was rolling!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 08/05/2026

There was already magic in the air throughout the Mayday festival but getting to play for and dance with the happy couple was truly a highlight of our trip to Minnesota. Congratulations, Summer and Joshua! And thank you Blake Nellis for sharing these amazing shots of the citywide wedding reception!

A bride and groom dressed in white pose with a brass band in red, white, and shiny attire

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 08/05/2026

Meet Summer and Joshua. These lovebirds got married Sunday morning on their way to the Minneapolis Mayday festival. They and their friends slotted in right behind us in the parade. So ERB became their wedding band over their walk down the aisle to Powderhorn Park!

A bride and groom dressed in white dancing in the street surrounded by a brass band in red, white, and shiny attire

Close up on the feet of a bride and groom dressed in white dancing in the street

A bride and groom dressed in white dancing in the street framed by a blurry sousaphone in the foreground

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 08/05/2026

*record scratch* Yep, that's us! You’re probably wondering how we ended up in this situation… In the 17-year history of the Extraordinary Rendition Band, we’ve played in a whole lot of parades. We’ve also crashed a few weddings. But we had never done both at the same time — until this weekend.

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 07/05/2026

Thank you to the parade organizers for inviting us to be part of the march, to the people of the Twin Cities for your courage and strength, and to our friends and parade-mates in the Forward! Marching Band for spending the afternoon jamming with us in the streets!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 07/05/2026

It’s one thing to hear about the passion and solidarity of activists in the city. It’s another to spend a few hours living it.

Musicians dressed in mostly red attire waiting to march in a protest

A trombone player with his slide extending through the picture during a protest march

A trumpet player poses while playing in the street during a protest march

A trumpet player laughs as an infant sitting in the grass tries to play the bass drum

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 07/05/2026

Our first event of the weekend in Minnesota was the May Day workers' march for labor rights and against ICE. (Not to be confused with the city’s Mayday parade a couple days later.) First two photos courtesy Gysland Photography

A crowd of two brass bands in mostly red attire lined up in the street at a protest

Two clarinet players in red and white attire playing in the street at a protest

A view of a long march stretching through the streets of Minneapolis

Three sousaphones and their players lined up in the street during a march

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 06/05/2026

The @minnehonk.org festival started quietly, but it it did not stay that way.

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 04/05/2026

Wow. Today we woke up back in Rhode Island after a truly transformative weekend in Minnesota. Thank you to @minnehonk.org, Brass Solidarity, and the good people of Minneapolis for welcoming us into your community and modeling the virtues of kindness, generosity, and solidarity.

A mass of at least a hundred or so musicians and organizers, many of whom are holding instruments and wearing colorful clothing, pose at The People’s Way at George Floyd Square.

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 03/05/2026

The @minnehonk.org party isn’t over yet! See you out today for the May Day parade!

Poster advertising the MinneHONK! festivities at and around the May Day parade on May 3

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 02/05/2026

It’s a beautiful day for a music festival! Hope to see you here at George Floyd Square for @minnehonk.org!

The Forward! Marching Band playing at the People’s Way

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 30/04/2026

After months of planning, @minnehonk.org starts TOMORROW! We are so excited to join bands from the Twin Cities and around the country in a weekend of joy and solidarity. Hope to you see you out in Minneapolis!

A poster advertising MinneHONK! a festival of activist street bands in Minneapolis, Minnesota May 1-3, 2026

A poster advertising the events of MinneHONK! for May 1: an ICE Out! Rally & March at 4:30pm and a MinneHONK! Eve Kickoff Party at 6:30pm.

A poster advertising the events of MinneHONK! for May 2: an Opening Ceremony at 10:30am followed by 10 bands playing through the late morning and afternoon and a communal jam session at 4:00pm.

A poster advertising the events of MinneHONK! for May 3: the Mayday Parade & Tree of Life Ceremony at noon, followed by MinneHONK! in the Park and an In The Spirit of May Day Block Party

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 24/04/2026

One last practice before we head up to MinneHONK! We are so excited to stand — and dance — with the good people of Minnesota next week. Want to help us make it happen? tinyurl.com/ut55524k

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 21/04/2026

A day later and we’re all still buzzing from the amazing energy at yesterday’s fundraiser. We are so touched and humbled by your support, and we will carry your love with us to MinneHONK!

A group of musicians clad in red, white, and shiny attire poses for a picture after a set

A group of musicians clad in red, white, and shiny attire playing a song while people dance in front

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 18/04/2026

Tomorrow’s the big day! Come see us, The Persisters, Stillhouse and The Daybreaks at Buttonwoods Brewery to help us fundraise for MinneHONK! Great music, great beer, and a great cause!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 12/04/2026

Announcing the full lineup for our fundraiser show: The Persisters Stillhouse The Daybreaks and of course, Extraordinary Rendition Band! Hope to see you April 19 at Buttonwoods Brewery in Providence!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 08/04/2026

ERB is hosting a fundraiser show on April 19 at Buttonwoods Brewery in Providence. All proceeds will help our all-volunteer/nonprofit band travel to MinneHONK! next month for a weekend of street music and solidarity. Come hear some old favorites AND new songs we have been preparing for Minneapolis!

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 31/03/2026

In the Extraordinary Rendition Band, we love showing up for the Rhode Island community however we can. On this 401 Gives Day, we’re asking for help extending that support to Minnesota. ERB has been invited to play at MinneHONK!, an activist street band festival in Minneapolis. tinyurl.com/ut55524k

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 30/03/2026

It was a beautiful day to stand up for democracy with tens of thousands of our closest friends!

A brass band in red, white, and shiny attire marching in a protest

A brass band in red, white, and shiny attire marching in a protest behind a large banner

A brass band in red, white, and shiny attire marching in a protest while playing

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 29/03/2026

Thank neighbors for turning out in force to support the rights of every one of us.

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Extraordinary Rendition Band @extraordinaryrenditionband.com · 25/03/2026

Rhode Island, we’ll be downtown this Saturday to stand up for democracy. Will you join us? @rinokings.bsky.social @indivisibleri.bsky.social

A yellow poster with blue and red bold writing:

NO KINGS.
MARCH 28
PROVIDENCE
MARCH & RALLY
1 PM RI STATEHOUSE MALLSIDE

Below this is a black and white cropped image of someone holding a sign reading “KINGS FALL PEOPLE RISE” next to a QR code for NoKingsRI.org

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