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The Merry Marching Band

In the village of Underpantsburg there is a very unusual marching band, or fanfare, the Merry Marching Band.
Under the guidance of a pompous band leader by turns bossy and bird-brained, this merry band sets out to see the world. With plenty of humour, no small amount of eccentricity and a touch of poetry, the band of music-makers makes its merry way—with a honk and a toot and a rat-a-tat-tat—from Quebec to Brazil to Ukraine and back, with a stopover on Planet Mars! During their stopovers, the swaggering musicians live all sorts of incredible adventures with the complicity of the audience, who become full-fledged actors of the story, and
discover pleasure through musical experience in the form of play and solidarity.

This beautiful land on which we gather, play and live, is the ancestral, traditional and unceded territory of the Syilx (Okanagan) peoples, who have been here for thousands of years.