All the Apparatus
Two Shows:
Hallowbaloo Street Festival:
Saturday, October 29th
FREE Show!!
Loloweeny Stage - 5pm
Hallowbaloo Club Performance:
Saturday, October 29th
Loft Gallery & Lounge - 12am (midnight)
Hallowbaloo Club Wristband required for their club performance. Click the ‘Wristbands’ button below to purchase in advance. 21 and older only.
Just as All the Apparatus (formerly known as Haberdashery) was blowing up in Honolulu, garnering a spot in 2009’s Hallowbaloo that followed Blitzen Trapper’s headlining performance, the entire band decided to up and go to Portland. The band’s goal? Mainly to play gigs on the street. Kind of like how they started off on Oahu — with regular appearances on Kalakaua Avenue. The Honolulu Weekly writes that All the Apparatus “plays songs that represent everything from the whimsical, sweet and vocal-driven to heavier, thumping waltzes that sound like they could be played outside the funhouse at a circus sideshow.”
Not even two years after relocation to the Pacific Northwest, “the record producer for The Polyphonic Spree [David Eaton] found us on the street playing and decided he wanted to work with us,” says accordion player Al Rosales. Within a month of being released, All the Appartus’s self-titled album sold 9,000 copies. Very impressive in this day and age of rampant music pirating and not too shabby for a street band that plays for change.
Two Shows:
Hallowbaloo Street Festival:
Saturday, October 29th
FREE Show!!
Loloweeny Stage - 5pm
Hallowbaloo Club Performance:
Saturday, October 29th
Loft Gallery & Lounge - 12am (midnight)
Hallowbaloo Club Wristband required for their club performance. Click the ‘Wristbands’ button below to purchase in advance. 21 and older only.
Just as All the Apparatus (formerly known as Haberdashery) was blowing up in Honolulu, garnering a spot in 2009’s Hallowbaloo that followed Blitzen Trapper’s headlining performance, the entire band decided to up and go to Portland. The band’s goal? Mainly to play gigs on the street. Kind of like how they started off on Oahu — with regular appearances on Kalakaua Avenue. The Honolulu Weekly writes that All the Apparatus “plays songs that represent everything from the whimsical, sweet and vocal-driven to heavier, thumping waltzes that sound like they could be played outside the funhouse at a circus sideshow.”
Not even two years after relocation to the Pacific Northwest, “the record producer for The Polyphonic Spree [David Eaton] found us on the street playing and decided he wanted to work with us,” says accordion player Al Rosales. Within a month of being released, All the Appartus’s self-titled album sold 9,000 copies. Very impressive in this day and age of rampant music pirating and not too shabby for a street band that plays for change.
After a first-ever West Coast tour this summer, All the Apparatus is happy to return the band’s birthplace to once again rock Hallowbaloo with its roughly 10 members, unconventional instruments and its self-described “avant-garde dirty gypsy klezmer jazz indie anti-folk rock.” This time around, All the Apparatus is bringing along two of its newer Portland-grown members.
“The last time we played Hallowbaloo was one of the most excellent experiences. It’s one of our best experiences to date. It’s a huge honor to play that again. We have nothing to say but the best things about Hallowbaloo,” says Rosales. You also might not have anything to say but the best things after seeing this spectacle of a live band.
“The last time we played Hallowbaloo was one of the most excellent experiences. It’s one of our best experiences to date. It’s a huge honor to play that again. We have nothing to say but the best things about Hallowbaloo,” says Rosales. You also might not have anything to say but the best things after seeing this spectacle of a live band.
