What Cheer? Brigade has been by our side for years

This post is a modified version of a former post on Blog about What Cheer? Brigade. The headliners of Spring Weekend get a lot of attention. Fetty is cool and all, but there are those who have been by our side for years, and they deserve to be appreciated. No—we're not talking about Binder. We’re talking about What Cheer? Brigade, who are returning this year, playing the first Saturday slot. Check out their music here.What Cheer? is a Providence-based 19-piece brass band—in their words, they “require no amplification, proving that great parties need no electricity.” THEY’RE ECO-FRIENDLY! What Cheer? is also the only act to not take the stage. Instead, they gather around Sayles Hall in a blob, and the audience surrounds them. Their sound is really high energy, so be prepared to break a sweat jumping up and getting down. (And breaking a sweat is probably just what we need considering the slightly ~chilly~ forecast for April 16th.)For those who have yet to experience the glory that is a What Cheer? performance, dancing to a brass band is a fantastic, apeshit time. What Cheer? should be your motivator to get on the Green early next week. We could go on about how their sound is a self-described mix of “Bollywood, The Balkans, New Orleans, Samba and Hip Hop.” We could also talk about how they wear wild outfits and and have hilarious nicknames like “Chop Chop the Chimp,” who is now known as “Dead Chop Chop” (RIP). However, we’re not going to go on about any of that stuff, because thanks to our “Find Your Friends" album, we can show you just how good of a time we had.So yeah, we guess you can say that we had fun with What Cheer? Brigade last year. See you crazy kids on the Green.  check out the album “We Blow, You Suck.”Images via and via Emily Gilbert ’14.