CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — This week's Made in Chicago is a true original that marches to its own tune: Mucca Pazza.
Charlie Malave is the guitarist and artistic director of Mucca Pazza, which he described as an interdisciplinary, performance arts small orchestra with roughly 30 members.
Mucca Pazza marches, dances and makes music all over the country.
Jim McBride plays the trumpet.
“It’s a big family that happens to play music, dance and move together,” McBride said. “We’re constantly kind of creating and recreating what we do and who we are.”
Larry Beers is on the drums.
“It’s been a strange, wonderful ride,” Beers said. “It’s been 20.5 years and it’s almost like an ongoing dream.”
Akshat Jain mans the sousaphone.
“It’s always evolving; it’s always changing because this band is an organism by itself,” Jain said. “What I tell people I do on Sundays is, ‘I get to have the time of my life for two hours with some of the goofiest, most wholesome, down-to-earth people that I know in Chicago.”
Mucca Pazza, made and played in Chicago.
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