The Primate
Fiasco spawns from the streets of Northampton MA. With
tuba, banjo, clarinet, trumpet, drums, and vocal harmony,
it's the instrumentation of a New Orleans sidewalk
band but with modern influences. While the band can play authentic
"Traditional Jazz", the music that's more likely to come out
of their ancient instruments is often recognized as
funk, reggae, bluegrass, hip hop, rock, latin, trance, the occasion Serbian gypsy jam, etc. But the world has enough labels already. Most would agree on the category of "fun". If you want to invent a genre, "psychedelic
dixieland" seems to get the point across.
The band started on city sidewalks and eventually started getting invited into venues and festivals frequented
by the Jam Band or Indie scene. At a Primate Fiasco show, you'll see hippies and punks, ravers and jazz enthusiasts,
elderly and children, all dancing on the same floor.
An important
thing to note about The Primate Fiasco's music is that
they can play the same song for the children,
weddings, or a club full of drunk screaming college students.
This formula works like a skeleton key. |
