The Extraordinary Rendition Band (ERB) is a protest marching band from Providence, Rhode Island with approximately 30 active members.
The instrumentation of the band varies but includes percussion, brass, woodwinds, and instruments less commonly found in marching bands, such as accordions and washboards.
[1] An activist street band, ERB frequently appears at protests in support of human and civil rights.
The band states its aim is to instigate "spontaneous moments of raucous musical joy.
The band's name is a double entendre: it refers to the versions of the songs the band plays at the same time as it intentionally draws critical attention to the practice of “extraordinary rendition,” the government-sanctioned practice of extrajudicial abduction carried out during the George W. Bush administration.