Olympia Film Festival Opening Night

The Artesians played grooves to entertain the crowd waiting to attend the opening night of the Olympia Film Festival.

David, lookin' snappy

Westside Artswalk

Happy Halloween, ARA danced around the neighborhood for Westside Artswalk in Halloween costumes.

OK, so this photo is er...slightly...  photoshopped

Lisa incognito

Maltoberfest

What happens when you want to celebrate Oktoberfest, but you only have a budget for malt liquor?  Maltoberfest!

We dressed in our best German Gangsta outfits

We were at Bob's World Famous Java Jive - it's shaped like a teapot

Sooooo tiny inside this teapot

 

I have no idea how we fit on that tiny stage - fan video

The Olympian

The Arkestra made it in the newspaper!  Arkestra on a quest to shed some (carbon) pounds

Evergreen Commencement

Evergreen State College invited us back to lead the new freshmen to their convocation ceremony.

Seamus, don't you think you're missing something?

Dance on, freshmen!

Group photo

Table for Olympia

Olympian gathered at one giant table downtown to share a meal and be entertained by musician, like us!

Group photo

Monarch Sculpture Park

Let's celebrate outdoor art!

Becky warms up

Charles takes a nap afterwards

Energy Fair

The band played to support the Thurston County Energy Fair.

Our thermo image - What a hot band!

The Weather Stripper

Band Retreat

Time for another band retreat.

Jam session on the lawn

Evergreen Graduation

Evergreen State College asked us to play for graduation.  We brought out our finest outfits for the celebratory sunny day!

Becky

Joe recruited some excited graduates to hold sing-along signs for us

Marcy

Group photo

Procession of the Species

This year the Arkestra decided to be a school of fish.

Jeff "Nemo"

Here we come

Marcy "Salmon" - photo by Joel Kluger

Photo by Charlotte Renninger

Honk Fest West - Day 3

The sun broke through in West Seattle.

Andy rocks out

Group shot

A smiley Margi

The Seattle Drum School also recorded a couple of our tracks in their nice studio.

Honk Fest - Day 2

First, we played on the roof of the converted Wonder Bread factory.

Joe

Then we played a couple shows in Seattle's Central District

Lisa takes a solo

Andy, the Karate Kid

Honk Fest West - Day 1

A fabulous Friday evening in Fremont.

Seamus and John show off their tough side

Lee

David

Video of Borino Oro and Percussion without cymbal wingnuts

Westside Artswalk

To kick off the Westside Artswalk, the Rumblers strolled through the neighborhood.

Don't stop

MLK March

Artesian Rumble Arkestra led the MLK Day march to the Capitol Building of advocates for economic & social justice.

On our way

Finally reach the Capitol

Highest Tide

The Arkestra played to harken the highest tide of the year, and made it on the Seattle TV news.

It was quite an experience

See? It was raining pretty hard

Brrrrr...

Usually this floating gangplank is at a steep angle