Family Slideshow Players
Family Fun with Found Art!I missed this segment last Wednesday, so I've included a special clip this week. One of the reasons to even live in New York City is that an act like the Trachtenburg Fmaily Slideshow Players exists. They were the first unsigned act ever to appear on Late Night with Conan O'Brien - where I first saw them. The concept alone is worth the price of admission. A man plays guitar or keyboard and sings. His daughter who is twelve (though she's been playing in the band since she was eight) plays the drum kit and sings while her mother plays slides that they find at garage sales to accompany the music. What is more fun: the carnival-like nature of a family band act or a little girl drumming to a song about war in Rhodesia? I Can't tell. Dad's hard core leftist politics are par for the course in the New York "anti-folk" scene; a scene no one claims as their own that has supposedly claimed Nellie McKay (of dear memory) Here is "Mountain Trip"
Looks like fun- here is "Military Open Mic Night" and "Eggs".
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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