The band has a floating membership of approximately 100 members playing sax, brass, percussion and stringed instruments.

It has appeared as a mobile unit for parades and as an amplified band with bass, fiddle, guitar and banjo.

The society also organized and sponsored two trips for the Carnival Band: to the first annual Honk Fest West in Seattle and to Artopia and Seafest, two festivals held in the northern coastal islands of British Columbia.

A community choir, Voice Mob, and samba dance group, the Carnival Band Dancers, also became active as performance troupes under the society umbrella.

Fest, in Somerville, Massachusetts, performing with the Hungry March Band and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra.

The February 2006 issue of Spin magazine featured an article by Caryn Ganz on the Extra Action Marching Band, noting “now there are several artsy-oriented cities with envelope-pushing groups like them.