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Welcome Fans!
Marching times are as follows on December 24th:
*NOTE! Mall times are subject to change slightly due to holiday traffic, but the band will start as promptly as we can. If you don't hear us right away, keep listening for very loud sounds
What Is It?
Watch 40+ musicians
bombard their way through the malls playing cadences, holiday carols and special
song parodies of the year (with audience participation):
Here's a sample of what's will be in this year's lineup:
Amy Winehouse - "Santa's Kneecap"
Finger Twelve - "Paralyzer"
Matchbox 25 - "How
Much I Got"
and our tribute to Guitar Hero III (12 p.m. at Christiana Mall, J.C. Penneys)
Questions?
Contact Ken Rosenberg
Marching Band Coordinator
55 Highland Circle Newark,DE 19713
Home: (302) 292-1833 Cell: (302) 521-7390
Kenneth.Rosenberg@ProactiveUSA.com
Promotional Information
The WHALE Holiday Carol Marching band performs every Dec 24th to festively promote:
Background
Once a year, like another fellow we know, a band of merry rock musicians (with wives, kids, grandparents, friends, high school and college "ringers") don horns, reeds, flutes, drums, and marching guitars to bombard their way through the Christiana and Concord malls blasting out holiday carols. The WHALE Holiday Carol Marching Band has been reuniting this way spreading holiday cheer for over 25 years at the Concord mall and every year at the Christiana mall since its inception. The band plays traveling music, standard carols, drum cadences, and special "parody tunes of the year", as they work their way down corridors, up escalators, and around the store owners and crowds. This event is loud, fun, and free to the public, as our thanks to all the fans.
The horn section of a 1970’s college 10 piece band called "Whale" decided to stroll through Concord mall one year, playing a few carols. Drums were added next year, marching tunes the next, cadences, another mall, parody songs, banners, etc., until the band achieved its present state of about 30 musicians, granddads pulling kids in wagons, Santa costumes, noisemakers, and crazy antics. The event is free, and is not sponsored by the malls for charity or marketing, but as a reunion for the band members as well as great way to spread holiday cheer among the many storeowners and last-minute shoppers.
Ken Rosenberg, the band coordinator, writes a few "parody tunes of the year". Hits from the past have included:
On Dec 24th come hear our songs of the year!
Stay tuned....…
Happy Holidays!
