Eighth Street Orchestra on CBC Music

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The Orchestra may have a nuclear core of the Murphy family, but on any given date our musical friends might include local elementary, middle school and high school band kids, other buskers who'll sit in for a set or three, musician spouses out on a shopping day lured in to "just play one more" (and some of them get hooked! :) ...

Just as it should be, music as a social architecture, a shared place and time where we, this community of players and audience together with the streets and offices and trees and out into the cosmos beyond, all come alive in a dancing timespace groove we create together

Night Market Marquee

The lineup for the Lupercalia Night Market boasted a pretty fine array of street artists. I think I caught more than a few of the club date performers milling about in the Market audience too ;) The Night Market was the scene to be seen!

Eighth Street Orchestra is back!

Thank you, Lupercalia!

It has been over a month since our last gig at the New Year's Eve Countdown. Winter seems especially long when we cannot get outside and play. Needless to say, Kelsey's invitation to help create a scene at the winter festival's night market was most welcomed. All of us were there. I mean ALL of us. For a good 2 hours(30 minutes break in between), all the pent up energy flowed through our bodies into our instruments and exploded into the room filling the market up with joyful noise.