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Mucca Pazza: official website; myspace; 30 people in a band? No problem. At every rehearsal, BBQ, and party, everyone loves one another like one big family. Until a gig comes along, and then…The trombones rumble with team saxophone, who fight for stage space with the clarinet and the fiddle, who don’t notice because they are busy vying for the attentions of the accordions, who could care less because the drum corps are a bunch of bullies, who are constantly melting at the sight of the glockenspiel, who has an eye for the cymbals, who keeps falling over the sousaphone, who is busy avoiding flying pom poms, who are chasing after the trombones, who are rumbling…. Mucca Pazza are marching misfits.

They play everything from Gainesbourg to Le Tigre, Bar-Kays to Ali Hassan Kuban and lotsa original compositions (including one commissioned by a queen from a distant planet - long story). One would think that only in Dr. Seuss’ imagination could a marching band perform in 10 canoes going down the Chicago River, but Mucca Pazza was there*!

They play everywhere: from punk venues to orchestral halls, from public parks to private extravaganzas, from diva palaces to dive bars, from TV shows to festivals. Some have called them “circus punk,” some say they’re “geek love,” but no one calls them dull.

Sxip Shirey: official website; myspace; Sxip Shirey is a Composer, Performer, Sound Designer and Story Teller. Sxip Shirey composes music for pyro-technic clowns, circus artists, good theater, contortionists, a choir, and his five-piece gypsy-klezmer-tango-punk ensemble The Luminescent Orchestrii. His solo work is performed on devices such as The Industrial Flute, The Mutant Harmonica and Obnoxiophone. He also tells a good story.

Stagger Back Brass Band: official website; myspace; "Like an entire carnival distilled into musical form" or a drunk who's had too much coffee, Stagger Back Brass Band specializes in intentional self-destruction, rumpus-raising booty-beats, and lovely melodies for high-wire acts. We encourage costumery and dress-uppery, and delight in all things absurd, silly, or otherwise foolish.

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