School Matinees

Upcoming Show Matinees

Mucca Pazza

Free School Matinée Performance
Friday, September 13, 2023
​Showtimes: 10:00AM 
At the Big Top Chautauqua tent located at
​32525 Ski Hill Rd, Bayfield, WI

These FREE student performances will last approximately 60 minutes. Seating is available on a first-come/first-serve basis. Performances can fill up and are subject to availability—reserve space for your students early!

To register, please complete and submit the form below. If you have any questions, please contact the Big Top Box Office at [email protected] or 715-373-5552.

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Mucca Pazza is a 30-odd-member rock ‘n roll marching band from Chicago, IL. Inspired by the subversive collaborations of Dada and Surrealism, Mucca Pazza seeks to attain the seemingly unattainable through an ever-evolving collective of artistic voices. Trumpets, trombones, saxes and sousaphones combine with guitar, mandolin, violin, cello and accordion, all on top of a rhythmic drumline — and all dressed in mismatched marching band uniforms. Add cheerleaders performing absurdist chants and you’ll quickly understand the band’s ethos: the bigger the better, the more the merrier, collectively jumping for joy.

Ever since the band assembled in 2004 in the distinctly Chicago parking lot of a steel mill, Mucca Pazza has melded original compositions with street-theater spectacle. Musical influences range from Béla Bartók to Balkan folk, Björk to Charles Mingus, Clara Schumann to Frank Zappa — they are as comfortable in a performance hall as they are in football stadium bleachers. Nearly two decades in, Mucca Pazza continues as a multi-disciplinary fantasy of original music, shouted dream poems and sweaty dance freak outs performed by a large-scale collective that exists due to the grace and love of its ever-changing roster.

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