Grifter’s Ball
Creative Alliance, Baltimore
For this theme party about “lying,” benefiting the art organization Creative Alliance, the RMO traveled to Baltimore and received a great reaction from the diverse crowd, who eventually abandoned their theater seating to rock out on the side of the stage. Our saxophonist Martin read a speech decrying the “latte-sipping, Volvo drivin’ liberals,” followed by a botched version of the National Anthem, disintegrating into the Indian marching song “Baraat.” For the encore, a strange prospect for a marching band, we pulled out “Range Barse.” We decided that the RMO is in an open relationship with Baltimore.
Greene Dragon’s Fourth of July Party
East River Bar, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
After a rousing street performance at Federal Hall in Manhattan, the revelers of Greene Dragon led the crowd back to [Colonial] Williamsburg to celebrate resistance in all its forms. The RMO rocked it out along with the avant-jazz group Dooryard Quartet, and DJ Stylus.
