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  Oregon Music Guide - Volume I, Number 1 - Brave Combo
So, I think that, really, I would hope that what [Brave Combo is] about is having an open mind to any style of music and not deciding that one style is bad and the other is good.
The Brave Combo treatment is applied to compositions by Bach, Chopin, Tchaikovsky and a number of other classical greats.
Brave Combo, who frequently hears the phrase “I don’t usually like polka but I love you guys,” has shouldered the daunting task of educating audiences to how good polkas can be because general perception runs the opposite direction.
www.omguide.com /bravecombo_090303.html   (1167 words)

  
 Fort Worth Weekly Online -- fwweekly.com | Music | Brave New World
Each year for the past three, Brave Combo has released an album that is, at least on first listen, so musically different from its predecessor that it seems it must have come from a different band.
The Maryland-based children's act approached Brave Combo after catching their 1997 performance at the Live Oak Music Festival in Santa Barbara, Calif. Watching the crowd of children and adults shake their booties and other assorted body parts to the high-energy music, Fink and Marxer began toying with the notion of a collaboration.
Combo will try the same approach when they play the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth on March 30; an early show at 8:30 will be more family-oriented, then the second show, at 11 p.m., will see the band pull out all the stops for one of its polka-flavored rock shows.
www.fwweekly.com /issues/2001-03-22/music2.html   (1174 words)

  
 Brave Combo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Come help Brave Combo celebrate their 20th year on Sunday night with current and past members doing what they do best.
It may take many words to describe Brave Combo, but in some ways the name says it all: It is a band that is not afraid to take musical chances.
Brave Combo has expanded in the last couple of years into a six-man miniature orchestra.
www.westfest.com /wf1999/b-brave.html   (404 words)

  
 Brave Combo - Official Web Site | Artist Profiles
After all, Brave Combo's quarter century of music certainly displays a fascinating yin and yang mix of the utterly and delightfully surreal, juxtaposed with perfect sense and wisdom.
Brave Combo has charmed countless listeners and won avid devotees as they play some 150 dates a year that include everything from the Labor Day weekend West Fest Czech polka festival in Central Texas to being perhaps the world's finest (okay, maybe only) St. Patrick's Day polka band.
And yes, Brave Combo remains a band, despite all the achievements, whose music all but begs wider airing, even if they have succeeded in winning over the various, finicky, disparate factions of the polka world, garnered consistently high praise in the music press, and picked up new fans every time they've played.
brave.com /bo/profile   (977 words)

  
 Review: Brave Combo, Mood Swing Music - Scott A. Miller   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
But the Combo has recorded so many styles from around the world that a sampler is probably the only way to get a sense of the band's true gift for making authentic world music fun.
Brave Combo doesn't run away from the label "quirky." And it wears its "polka band" moniker like the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Brave Combo records entire albums of polka to make people happy simply because ringleader Carl Finch and his band of merry men believe above all that music should be fun.
www.westnet.com /consumable/1997/01.07/revbrave.html   (398 words)

  
 Lazyeye Interview: Brave Combo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Grammy winner Brave Combo, the Denton, Texas, 5-piece that's scheduled to play Sokol Underground Sept. 28, also is a polka band, though in a much larger league than my beloved Pioneers.
Another example: The Tracy Ullman show pleaded for Brave Combo to appear on a skit as the polka band at a Polish wedding.
Brave Combo has toured extensively in Europe, where the attitude toward polka "is so removed," Finch said.
timmcmahan.com /bravecombo.htm   (1695 words)

  
 The National Polka Festival - Brave Combo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
BRAVE COMBO specializes in a unique brand of domestic and exotic dance rhythms that fuel what Billboard calls “world-wise, unclassifiable music.” Growing out of their love and affinity for the polka sounds of Europe and America, BRAVE COMBO's recorded experiments have included everything from Latin American dance tunes to Japanese pop.
BRAVE COMBO has released over twenty critically-acclaimed recordings in the U.S. and Japan, including their Grammy Award winning 1999 release, Polkasonic and four other Grammy-nominated albums.
BRAVE COMBO’s most recent release is Box Of Ghosts (Rounder Records) which features the band putting their own twist..and salsa…and tango on familiar classical pieces.
www.nationalpolkafestival.com /bravecombo.htm   (692 words)

  
 Waterloo Records - Brave Combo : Polkasonic
Brave Combo: Carl Finch (vocals, guitar, accordion, keyboards); Bubba Hernandez (vocals, tuba, bass); Danny O'Brien (trumpet); Alan Emert (drums).
Brace Combo are not postmodern jokers--they genuinely love polka music and, like all good children of the late 20th century, they put their own spin on it, charging it with a rock-tinged jolt and good-natured eclecticism.
Brave Combo plays GOOD-TIME music, tunes designed to make you dance and grab a day pass from your troubles.
www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=13&upc=70952210232   (228 words)

  
 Brave Combo Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brave Combo - Official site for the "nuclear polka" band includes news and itinerary updates.
Brave Combo Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes.
-- Tom Robbins Brave Combo "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Bands_and_Artists_B_Brave_Combo.html   (1643 words)

  
 Waterloo Records - Brave Combo : Polka Party With Brave Combo: Live & Wild   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brave Combo: Jeffrey Barnes (vocals, clarinet, alto & tenor saxophones); Carl Finch (vocals, guitar, accordion, keyboards); Danny O'Brien (trumpet, flugel horn); Bubba Hernandez (tuba, bass); Alan Emert (drums); Joseph Cripps (percussion).
POLKA PARTY WITH BRAVE COMBO: LIVE AND WILD was nominated for a 1999 Grammy for Best Polka Album.
Since the band's emphasis is on exuberant dance music--primarily the polka, but also including other party musics from around the world-it is great to hear the musicians playing off of a live and enthusiastic crowd.
www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=13&upc=71213670522   (252 words)

  
 Brave Combo, Polkasonic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brave Combo, for anyone unfamiliar with their particular style of genre-bending, is almost the definition of musical eclecticism.
I'm more a Brave Combo fan than a polka fan, personally; their Christmas album, It's Christmas, Man, is one of our family's most-played.
Brave Combo plays an assortment of different styles of polka here, and do them all very well indeed.
www.rambles.net /brave_polka.html   (446 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com | | Street Beat | Carl's corner | 2000-03-16   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brave Combo reunites its nuclear polka family as it celebrates its 20-year...
Brave Combo recreates the music using waltzes and cha-chas and rancheras...
Brave Combo performs its traditional holiday concert December 23 at Club Dada.
www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2000-03-16/streetbeat.html   (1087 words)

  
 Brave Combo News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brave Combo: Cenobio Hernandez - Alan Emert - Danny O'Brien - Carl Finch - Jeffrey Barnes.
Brave Combo, the Grammy-winning Texas band that blends polka, klezmer, merengue and other ethnic dance forms with garage-band rock, would love to play in Tampa more often.
Brave Combo's wide range of tastes is a product of the band members' education; all studied music at the collegiate level.
www.topix.net /who/brave-combo   (322 words)

  
 Brave Combo New Orleans Review - Online news and more relevant resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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www.anthonydegasperis.com /topics/combo/brave-combo-new-orleans.html   (228 words)

  
 Brave Combo Discography at CD Universe
Brave Combo: Carl Finch (guitar, keyboards, accordion, vocals); Jeffrey Barnes (clarinet, saxophone, synthesizer, harmonica, vocals); Danny O'Brien (trumpet, flugelhorn); Bubba Hernandez (bass, vocals); Joseph Cripps (drums, percussion, vocals); Alan Emert (drums).
Brave Combo: Carl Finch (vocals, guitar, accordion, keyboards); Bubba Hernandez (vocals, bass); Jeffrey Barnes (clarinet, bass clarinet, harmonica, saxophone, tambourine); Danny O'Brien (trumpet).
brave combo discography of albums, songs, lyrics, biography, reviews, cover art pictures, and sound samples on this page is for personal non-commercial use only.
cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/artist/brave+combo/a/brave+combo.htm   (162 words)

  
 Hear/Say: America's College Music Magazine - Reviews - Albums - Brave Combo: Polkasonic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
For years now, Brave Combo's annual appearance at the South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin has drawn large crowds of insiders.
But even though music critics and hip club owners worship at the Combo feet, their polka-powered mission has been finding fans one convert at a time.
And in the liner notes, Finch says, "I hereby declare that polka is no longer considered a symbol of squareness." He explains, "Brave Combo loves to play polkas - to feel that electric jolt of energy and to wallow in the hedonistic pleasure of tension and release.
www.hearsay.cc /reviews/albums/03-02-09-99/BraveCombo.html   (499 words)

  
 Lazy-i: Son, Ambulance at Joslyn; Brave Combo at Sokol Underground
Take a few minutes and read this September 2000 Lazy-I interview/feature on the band and its music, where your fearless writer admits to a dark musical secret of his own.
The irony is that Brave Combo is a Grammy winning polka band and that Omaha has (or used to have) a large contingency of polka dancers who used to strut their stuff upstairs in Sokol Auditorium/Ballroom, not in the dark, smokey confines of the Underground.
As Brave Combo co-founder Carl Finch said in my interview, "We wish we could draw a crowd large enough to book the dance hall.
www.timmcmahan.com /2005/02/son-ambulance-at-joslyn-brave-combo-at.html   (324 words)

  
 Ink Nineteen: Brave Combo
No "how old is your sister" or "what kind of music does your sister like" -- Brave Combo's appeal is so universal that I can't think of anyone who wants to hear music being disappointed with their live performance.
Of course, no evening with Brave Combo would be complete without polka, and that night had the best polka set I've heard in my life.
Still, Brave Combo are no slouches, and kept the polka level at a dangerously high setting for the rest of the evening, even after Joe had left the stage to a standing ovation.
www.ink19.com /issues_F/98_03/live/brave_combo_nf.html   (493 words)

  
 Brave Combo Review - Online news and more relevant resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 CD Baby: BRAVE COMBO: Let's Kiss
Over the last 25 years, Brave Combo has collected a dizzying array of descriptive musical pegs, boldly going where few bands have gone before, and even fewer could (or would) dare to venture.
Brave Combo launched its 25th Anniversary year with the ultimate cultural sanctification by making one of its most prestigious appearances, of many, to date.
Barnes is known for his lively and imaginative stage wear, as well as playing an array of reeds and woodwinds, harmonica, pennywhistle, guitars, you name it, sometimes in multiple, simultaneous combinations.
www.cdbaby.com /bravecombo   (1205 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Brave Combo
Formed by Denton, Texas homeboy Carl Finch in 1979, Brave Combo are witty and wise purveyors (and perverters) of polkas and musics of many nations.
The Musical Varieties compilation is an excellently produced and generous introduction to the band which sets the stage for Polkatharsis, the Combo's brave return to its roots.
Like their European (conceptual) cousins 3 Mustaphas 3, the Combo has evolved from being merely a good joke into a fine band.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=brave_combo   (350 words)

  
 BRAVE COMBO: Sanity.com.au
A thoroughly enjoyable CD for any music lover, this is a fantastic collection of leftovers and extras, some released, some appearing for the first time.
Ostensibly Brave Combo is a Texas polka band, but of course, things are not always what they seem.
Brave Combo's fifth album, 1988's Humansville tones down the occasionally self-conscious giddiness of the band's earliest records.
www.sanity.com.au /artist.asp?intArtistID=13939   (223 words)

  
 Texarkana Gazette: News and Classifieds From Texarkana, Texas/Arkansas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Leading the way is a band with Texarkana ties, Brave Combo, of Denton, Texas, which has received its sixth nomination in the Best Polka Album category for "Let's Kiss."
Brave Combo won a Grammy in 2000 for "Polkasonic."
Brave Combo is well-known for specializing in a unique brand of domestic and exotic dance rhythms, which fuel what Billboard calls "world-wise and unclassifiable music."
www.texarkanagazette.com /articles/2004/12/24/local_news/features/features02.txt   (534 words)

  
 Splendid E-zine reviews: Cathy Fink, Marcy Marxer and Brave Combo
You have been warned: no one is safe from the contagious web of the world's most magnetic band, Brave Combo.
If Brave Combo's delightfully eclectic concoctions, which range from punk to polka, can make hardshelled teens and sour-pussed old farts alike have a good time, think what they can do to the kids in your life.
Fink and Marxer's vocals tag team with Brave Combo's Carl Finch and Bubba Hernandez, as well as a the University Park Elementary School Ensemble, to present tales of humor and adventure.
www.splendidezine.com /reviews/apr-23-01/cathy.html   (496 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Polkasonic: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brave Combo is a surprising, and delightful band that exudes energy and fun.
If you are already a polka fan, this CD may not be for you, as it is not your standard polka fare.
Brave Combo has been around a long time - 20 years or so - and its muse has led it all over the map in terms of musical style and presence.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000K2LA?v=glance   (881 words)

  
 Polkatharsis by Brave Combo CD
Brave Combo: Carl Finch (vocals, guitar, piano, accordion); Bubba Hernandez (vocals, tuba, bass), Jeffrey Barnes (guitar, saxophone, clarinet, flute, didjeridoo, background vocals), Mitch Marine (drums, washboard, background vocals).
The dazzling combo comes out swinging with a thunderous cavalcade of drums in the opening of their high-octane take of "The Happy Wanderer." From there out they stick close to the heart of polkas, with a hora or a waltz thrown in here and there to spice up the pot.
This is their first album with the sonic breadth to capture what they do without limitation or interference.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1144848/a/Polkatharsis.htm   (330 words)

  
 Brave Combo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Brave Combo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
Brave Combo is a (A Bohemian dance with 3 steps and a hop in fast time) polka/ (Material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust) rock band based in (Click link for more info and facts about Denton, Texas) Denton, Texas.
They won a (Click link for more info and facts about Grammy) Grammy award in 1999 in the Polka album category for their album Polkasonic, and again in 2005 for their album Let's Kiss.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brave_combo.htm   (141 words)

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