Led by the irreverently prolific writer-songsinger-satirist-guitarist Chandler Travis, the nine piece Philharmonic consists of some of Beantown's finest cats on trombone, accordion, sax, mandocello, trumpet, rhythm section and sometimes clarinet. They might be the missing link between the Kinks and Sun Ra. There's some chance you may be aware of Chandler's other band, the Incredible Casuals, or of his earlier work with Travis Shook and the Club Wow. Either solo or in one or another of these guises, he has opened up for pretty much everyone in the world, including Elvis Costello, Green Day, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, John Cale, Bonnie Raitt, NRBQ, Charles Mingus, the Beach Boys, Allen Ginsburg, the Replacements, George Carlin, Of Montreal, etc., etc. Shows boast obscure, anachronistic covers, Chandler's mind numbingly funny spoken interludes and the ensemble's furious psycho-jungle-dixie sound.