You can watch some Folkmoot dancers this weekend. You can Laugh Your Asheville Off. You can spend too much money at the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands.
Or you can chill at the Greagle and check out one of the quirkiest bands you’ll ever run across in Ashvegas – the Tractenburg Family Slideshow Singers. They come to me on the recommendation of loyal reader bentmatches.
Here’s some Tractenburg bio info:
When you’re in a band as unique as the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, it’s okay to be a little confident.
We’re an indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow band, says singer/songwriter Jason Trachtenburg. “Weve got the market cornered. There’s no band that can hold a candle to us. In that department.”
Hes got a point. The Trachtenburgs are a domestic trio who play quirky indie pop songs in the key of un-ironic good, clean fun with one major catch: All the songs carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections they’ve found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances. Whats more, from their retro fashion sense to their disavowal of modern conveniences, the Trachtenburgs are a charming relic: a vintage throwback to simpler, more self-sufficient, family-oriented times just like their music.
Listen to the Trachtenburgs at the myspace page here.