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Happy 2025 from Mucca Pazza!

First things first: we are excited to announce our first Chicago show of the year: International Tuba Day, Friday, May 2, 2025 at Martyrs’ 3855 N Lincoln Ave. featuring our friends from Michigan, The Saxquatch Unit.

We want to pack enough joy for each and every one of you, so let us know you’re attending by buying a ticket now. We just finished writing and recording new music [more on that later], so we’ll have a show unlike one you’ve seen before. We promise you some topical tuba humor.

Seeing Mucca Pazza in a classic Chicago rock club is an unforgettable experience: sweaty dancing, heartfelt singalongs, surprising cheers,visceral sound, caution tape pom-poms brushing up against your [FAVORITE CHICAGO SPORTS TEAM] cap; the feeling of [FAVORITE BEVERAGE] in your hand.

Past International Tuba Days have sold out. Watching outside the window just isn’t the same. You won’t want to miss it.

Join us in LOUISIANA this April!

What a spring we have planned! We’re thrilled to be returning to the Festival International de Lousiane in Lafayette, LA April 23-27, 2025. (We’ll be playing Saturday the 26th and Sunday the 27th, but catch the whole festival if you can!)

Our 2010 performance at the festival was an all-time highlight for the band, and we cannot wait to perform on stage and in the streets. Lafayette really knows great music (and great FOOD!)

Looking at this incredible lineup of internationally prominent artists, you might be surprised that the festival is absolutely free to attend. So, fire up that RV or plot out your cross-country bike routes. (You’ll be back in time for International Tuba Day.)

We’ll be going on the road a bit more in 2025—check muccapazza.com or our socials for updates as we announce more summer shows.

NOVEMBER 2024 RECAP:

WBEZ PODCAST/PERFORMANCE and MUCCA PAZZA: FOR THE RECORD

2024 was our 20th Anniversary, and we celebrated it by looking back and running forward.

Our friends at WBEZ featured Mucca Pazza on the Rundown Podcast in November. Founding Mucca Pazza member Sharon Lanza [more on her later…] and Artistic Director/Tiny Guitar-ist Charlie Malave discussed our band’s past, present, and future in a thoughtful discussion with host Erin Allen.

We performed a set at WBEZ too. Check it out! [YouTube]

Throughout November 2024, we played four ambitious programs at Chicago’s Epiphany Center for the Arts in Mucca Pazza: For The Record. These concerts were recorded in partnership with our sponsor, Shure. (We’re so excited about our Shure partnership, and you’ll be hearing more about this later in 2025—including some beautiful clips from Mucca Pazza: For The Record).

Instead of going into the studio to record our nine world premieres (!) and some beloved favorites from the Mucca Pazza catalog, we captured them alongside our fans.

We’ll be mixing the recordings next month at one of our favorite Chicago studios, Electrical Audio. We will let you know when we release the music! Our fans will even be heard on the recording (laughing, crying, singing).

You’ll see and hear more footage from these concerts later this year, but for now, aren’t our hats pretty in these elevator candids?

How many Muccas fit inside of an elevator?

Apparently, not enough Muccas fit inside of an elevator

The most magical moment of Mucca Pazza: For The Record came right before intermission of our Thursday, Nov. 7th, 2024 show. Founding members David Smith (composer of many celebrated Mucca Pazza classics like Rabbits and Trees, sax/clarinet player) and Sharon Lanza (I Heart A Scientist red shirt cheer, the one human who knows every single other human in Chicago) got for-real, not-a-joke, we-couldn’t-be-happier-for-our-favorite-people SURPRISE MARRIED on stage.

Congrats, Sharon & Dave! We love you!

POV: Lily [Cheer] is helping Sharon [Cheer] and Dave [alto sax/clarinet] elope. It’s blurry because there are happy tears in your eyes.

Besides

  • premiering nine new tunes

  • recording and mixing a new album

  • becoming Shure artists

  • recording a podcast and performance at WBEZ

  • eloping on-stage

  • getting ready for our favorite national festival (Festival International de Louisiane April 26-27)

  • preparing an preparing an AMAZING SHOW for one of our favorite Chicago venues (Martyr’s May 2) with The Saxsquatch Unit

  • getting ready to announce some more shows on the road…

    …we’re just kicking back and taking it easy.

See you at International Tuba Day!

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