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Why do we need museums? They show us something familiar and traditional, while at
the same time documenting our innovation, showing us possible directions for the future.
This is the same reason we need David Wax Museum – to give us music that is somehow
familiar, as if it has always existed somewhere in our cultural ether, but is at the same
time undeniably fresh.
Recently anointed as Boston’s Americana Artist of the Year (2010 Boston Music
Awards), the David Wax Museum has been called “pure, irresistible joy” (Bob Boilen,
NPR) and hailed by TIME.com for its “virtuosic musical skill and virtuous harmonies.”
It is no surprise that its acclaimed performance at the 2010 Newport Folk Festival was
hailed as one of highlights of the entire weekend by NPR. The Museum fuses traditional
Mexican folk with American roots and indie rock to create an utterly unique Mexo-
Americana aesthetic. Combining Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, and donkey
jawbone rattling, they have electrified audiences across the country and are “kicking up a
cloud of excitement with their high-energy border-crossing sensibility” (The New
Yorker).READ MORE…
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