The Vermont Joy Parade is a collection of some of the most talented and respected musicians, songwriters, and performers from the vibrant Burlington , VT music scene.  They have been celebrated from coast to coast for their exciting suspender-fusion music, drawing rave reviews from such publications as Spin magazine who praised their encore performance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival this past spring. They have conducted two critically acclaimed national tours on their vegetable-oil powered buses over the past year and are preparing for a north-east tour in mid summer 2010 to promote their highly-anticipated recording debut, “Kicking Sawdust”, available in a vinyl plus digital release package. 
  The foremost promoters of “suspender-fusion” music, as dubbed by a Burlington newspaper columnist, The Vermont Joy Parade is a six piece ensemble featuring banjo, trumpet, accordion, guitar, upright bass, drums/percussion, and vocals, playing a fervent and eclectic blend of old-time, blues, dixieland, Cajun, jug, and klezmer.  Their alchemical blend of alternately rambunctious and soulful tunes has been received with enthusiasm by people from all walks of life in all regions of America .  There is something for everyone in the music as they croon, warble, mourn, stomp, and wail.  You know – the sort of sounds you would expect from folks in suspenders, clown noses, and goggles.
  Formed in the summer of 2008 by banjo player and circus arts extraordinaire Benjamin Strosberg (Captain Benny Pants), bassist and filmmaker Devin Robinson (Melvin Blitzkrieg), trumpeter and area jazzman/poet Ben Aleshire (Jowles Endwell),  and accordionist and actor Galen Peria (Duke Aeroplane), the quartet traveled 5,200 miles from Burlington, VT to Oakland, CA on their first vegetable powered school bus, The Zeitgeist Apparatus, regaling and riveting audiences with tales and sounds of old.  In the Spring of 2009, guitarist and staple Burlington songwriter Anna Pardenik (Leddy Parks) joined the rascals as well as drummer and Radio Bean doorman Dan Fancher (Jiggs Endwell).  That spring Ms Pardenik released her debut album, “Porchship” (featuring members of The Joy Parade) and the group hit the road once again, this time in two full length veggie-powered circus buses.  Having received endless requests at each performance of their national tour for an album all their own, The Vermont Joy Parade joined with Dave Costanza of The Barn Studio in New Mexico to record, entirely in analog, their first full length recording, available this August. 
  The Vermont Joy Parade’s coming tour will feature music from their new album as well as material from Anna Pardenik’s “Porchship” and “The Collected Works of The Duke of Aeroplane” to be available next fall. 
  Wherever they go, it would seem, The Vermont Joy Parade cannot be stopped from making Joy, Merriment, and the most voluble and exciting music anyplace West of anyplace East.  Their vibrant original tunes in addition to their repertoire of rare and popular old-time gems, as well as their endless and incorrigible vaudevillian stage antics make them a show not to be missed.  Long live the circus.  Long live joy.