May Day Parade: Bugles, Blasphemy, and the Baptist Church

The Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance, is pleased to announce a Marsh Rising performance of Wayne Harris’ May Day Parade: Bugles, Blasphemy and the Baptist Church, the tale of his lifelong love of marching bands and drum-and-bugle corps. It is an unforgettable story about family, religion and….staying in step! We follow Harris on a "road less traveled" or at least "less marched," and along the way bump into the wonderful characters and vibrant community of his youth, including an alcoholic deacon in a Baptist Church basement, a zen-like marching instructor who flew helicopters in Viet Nam and a dozen ‘letter’ girls bumping and grinding down a St. Louis boulevard to the marching band version of a James Brown hit, all of whom guide a young man to an appreciation of art, performance and the diversity of life.