HEY NYC PUNKS! On Joey Ramone's birthday, May 19, the Hungry March Band (NYC's only punk brass band) is celebrating St Joey's birthday with an all-day, all-night orgy of devotional fervor. Specifically, three things:

1. A punk pilgrimage from the Rock-n-Roll High School in Forest Hills, where they all went to school, through Queens and probably Brooklyn to Tompkins Square Park. You know how various religious devotees will occasionally have incredibly long marches to visit a saint or a series of shrines? This is that, and it'll begin at noon in front of the school, 67-01 110th Street, Queens (G/R/V to 67th Ave). WE NEED PILGRIMS for this! Anyone who's interested should get in touch with Joe Tuba here.

2. The pilgrimage will wind up at Tompkins Square Park in the east village at about 6:30, and at 7, the processional will begin in all its reverent earnestness: A Saint Joey statue mounted on an ornate platform carried by disciples, self-flagellating punk martyrs, mystics, and heretics, and of course a brass band playing anthemic material appropriate to the occasion. This will most likely step off from 9th Street and Ave A at 7, visiting various shrines and sacred sites around the neighborhood, and winding up at Joey Ramone Place by 8pm. WE NEED PUNK HERETICS FOR THIS! Are you a punk heretic? GET IN TOUCH!

3. The Feast of Saint Joey will begin at CBs Gallery at 8pm, featuring a DIY Ramones cover band open mike, the all-woman band DEVA, other bands still under top-secret wraps, the Hungry March Band, and a potluck dinner. The door on this is $10, $5 for those who bring food to share, and a percentage of the door is going to the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

So most of all we're looking for pilgrims, and instant-Ramones bands-on-a-whim, and of course, the sanctity of Joey's honor!

Thanks for reading, and stay tuned for more rock and roll.

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