Muppet Christ Superstar: an unauthorized parody

Muppet Christ Superstar Parody album

This isn’t quite clown, but it’s all wonderful, and it’s fan-fiction/music taken to extremes. Musician Christopher Graham released a parody album of Jesus Christ Superstar as performed by the Muppets.  Entitled Muppet Christ Superstar,  the album has many (but not all) of the songs from the Andrew Lloyd Weber Musical. The usual characters are in place, almost as you would […]

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The Xylo-Van (in LA)

A very cool project recently came to my attention– the Xylovan, an old Ford Club Wagon that has been retrofitted, retrograded, remachined and re imagined into a musical van, that allows interactive participants to bang on it and make all kinds of weird wondrous music. The concept came about approximately 4-5 years ago, and based on their website and their […]

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Maestrosities in Brooklyn with Orchestra June 13

The Maestrosities (the self-proclaimed coolest band ever) is a group of clown musicians who have a really good time while playing instruments. They’ve announced a collaboration with The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra. On the program: Finlandia – Jean Sibelius Peter and the Wolf – Sergei Prokofiev The William Tell Overture – Tonto They most certainly won’t be interfering with the […]

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Sxip Shirey and his Hour of Charm

Sxip Shirey is a sound designer, performer, story-teller, curator, and real-life circus composer. He performs on a number of unique and bizarre instruments, some of his own devising, including the Obnoxiophone, the Industrial Flute, Mutant Harmonicas, and more. He is also the world’s foremost champion of the Tampon as a musical instrument. Sxip Shirey came to New York City when […]

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