The Primate Fiasco

Artist Information

Biography

Although they commonly rage the stage as the headliner, The Primate Fiasco started as a street band roaming around sidewalks and amusement parks. Impromptu street corner parties quickly got the band invited into venues, private events, and of course festivals were they more often than not leave the audience clawing at the stage for more. To the surprise of many traditional jazz enthusiasts, a devoted following of non-jazz listeners quickly assembled across the North East. After studio CDs, radio play, and several cities taken, the stage show has evolved but the band can still be found on a street corner when feeling nostalgic.

With influences from Motzart to Radiohead to Grateful Dead to Duke Ellington, it's hard to pigeon-hole The Primate Fiasco but the audience has spoken. No one feels out of place on the dance floor, not even the people who are dancing for the first time in their life (a common sight at a fiasco show). The lyrics are captivating and unique while the music burns at high temperatures, ever changing in form and often improvisational. They've been known to shock their fans with live renditions of entire albums such as Sgt Pepper, Zeppelin IV, The Wall, Appetite For Destruction, and countless other stage antics that were unexpected for instruments of this nature.

Currently, The Primate Fiasco is working on their second studio album and expanding their tour map from New England to anywhere in the world that needs to dance.

The Primate Fiasco has shared the stage with Arlo Guthrie, Martin Sexton, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and many other talents.

Instrumentation

Tuba = J Witbeck,
Trumpet/trombone = Nick Borges,
Banjo/guitar/harmonica = Dave DelloRusso,
Clarinet/sax = Steve Yarbro,
Drums = Chris Trevethan.
All members sing.

Discography

TAP-2011;

WHEELS ON THE BUS (kids album)-2010 (Grammy Nominated);

GEEK DREAMS-2008;

Bootleg Series Vol1-2007.

Official Website

http://theprimatefiasco.com

Links

• Facebook
• Youtube

Audio

• Check
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• Wrist Band Tan Line
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• Casa
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• WHEELS ON BUS album demo medley
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• Whale Song
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Lyrics

• Saturn Returns
• South Pole and the Pyramids
• All my enemies
• Everything Peaks

Video

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Press

• Street Shows [+ Show ]
  

  Awarding a halo to Primate Fiasco. It's so great to watch this fabulously fun Dixieland pop extravag...Awarding a halo to Primate Fiasco. It's so great to watch this fabulously fun Dixieland pop extravaganza play on the street in Northampton (with hula-hooper in tow) that you can't find parking anymore. Why do they have to be so entertaining?

• Big Top in Ballroom
  

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• Better than Barnum
  

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• Monkey Love [+ Show ]
  

  We caught a few minutes of these cats -- kinda alt-Dixieland -- at First Night, and it made me want ...We caught a few minutes of these cats -- kinda alt-Dixieland -- at First Night, and it made me want to see a FULL SHOW.
  
  Also, the idea of a band called Primate Fiasco at the State Capitol -- where on a good day the inmates throw their own feces -- is just too right.

• Low anthem & Primate Fiasco [+ Show ]
  

  Then came Primate Fiasco. They’re a self proclaimed psychedelic-dixieland band. It says so on their ...Then came Primate Fiasco. They’re a self proclaimed psychedelic-dixieland band. It says so on their website. But they were awesome, a sight and sound to behold, though they say dixieland, I would like to append the genres of swing and funk to their hyphenated list of descriptors. This five guy act was phenomenal, they knew exactly how to work the crowd and which songs and mash ups would really get the largely twenty-somethings all drunk with the beat and ready to dance. To their enthusiastic dixieland inspired set they added liberal amounts of nostalgic musical inserts; Ray Parker Jr.’s Ghostbusters, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and The Rolling Stone’s Sympathy for the Devil. It blows my mind a little as to how they masterfully got everything to work together and the result was something awesome. They had two guest players join them at varying points, a lady-friend from the local university who sang a dangerously suggestive blues number and a passing through trumpet playing friend who playfully upstaged Primate Fiasco’s own Nick Borges in a show of good and competitive musicianship. They really brought the house together and really made my night. A final but wordy complement: while ambulating near the more business minded end of New Orleans’ Bourbon Street on a drizzly evening of Mardi Gras, there was an impromptu looking sidewalk dixie-style street band I came across playing wildly. The two groups could have been interchangeable. I do not waiver in my commitment to give the entire act five hand claps. Bravo.

Setlist

Typical set list is a mixture of originals and unlikely covers done in a style that is way out of context. Example: "Alabama Song (whiskey bar)" done as dixieland. Or "Summertime" done as funk. There is a long list of trad jazz tunes such as "Dont Mean A Thing", "Sweet Georgia Brown", "A Train", "Saints", etc. Sets are designed on the fly, shifting through different genres to keep the excitement of the audience at high levels.

Sets can be 3 hours on stage, a roaming set through the audience, and anything in between.

Basic Requirements

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