Brave ComboThey're coming back! Two-time Grammy award-winners, and indisputedly America’s best contemporary polka band, Brave Combo are sweeping back into town with their brand new album Polka's Revenge, and a full head of steam! Don't say you weren't warned...
Variously described as a groundbreaking world music act, a hot jazz quintet, a rollicking rock'n'roll bar band, a Tex-Mex conjunto, a sizzling blues
band, a saucy cocktail combo, a deadly serious novelty act, a Latin
orchestra, and one of America's dance bands par excellence, it's all in a night's music for Brave Combo. Their shows include
everything from klezmer surf rock to rocking cha cha to what The
Washington Post calls "mosh pit polka," as well as to the hokey pokey
and the chicken dance. And zyedeco, acid rock, Muzak, bubblegum,
cumbia, classical, and the twist, to still not exhaust the list. This
plethoric multitude of musical styles and flavors is frequently mixed,
matched, and melded, into delicious, new concoctions by an imaginative team of musical gourmet master chefs. Brave Combo's quarter century of music certainly displays a fascinating yin and yang mix of the utterly
and delightfully surreal, juxtaposed with perfect sense and wisdom.
What bandleader Carl Finch calls its "barrage of incongruous elements"
flows from its deep sincerity, outstanding musicianship, and a firm
belief that music should be fun and life-affirming.
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