They're hoping to woo him with The World's Largest Drum, named Mary. Hey, it could happen!
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Monday, February 18
The men of the Elmhurst Armpit Orchestra think big. Really big. You've seen these guys in the Elmhurst St. Patrick's Day Parade. They dress in native-suburban garb—shorts, dark socks, T-shirts and sunglasses—and play standards like "Yankee Doodle" on kazoos, bucket-drums, washboards, vuvuzelas, pot lids and cowbell. This year, they're introducing the Stumpf Fiddle. Their sheet music is written on rolls of toilet paper hung around their necks. EAO, formed in 2009, draws its inspiration from a character in the movie Stripes played by popular actor and all-around funny man Bill Murray. His character, John Winger, leads a rag-tag bunch of Army recruits in parade exercises only Murray could pull-off. Well this year, EAO members want Bill Murray…
The EAO will be back in full regalia with a new addition this year: a vuvuzela player.
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Back in February 2009, Elmhurst St. Patrick’s Day Parade Chairman Jim O’Connor mentioned to some friends at an Elmhurst couple’s wedding reception that the parade needed another unit to entertain adults and children, alike. And thus, the Elmhurst Armpit Orchestra was born. EAO founders envisioned the all-male kazoo and bucket-drum band dressed in native-suburban male garb (shorts, tall socks, sleeveless T-shirts and sunglasses). Over the next several weeks the EAO’s numbers grew to more than 25 members. They were an immediate hit! Playing such standards as “Yankee Doodle,” “The Colonel Bogey March” and “When the Saints Go Marching In,” the EAO looks forward to entertaining parade goers for the fourth straight year beginning at noon …
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