CompCord Polka Band / Part of the 14th Annual CompCord Festival – Comedy

Composers Concordance presents CompCord Polka Band, the closing event of the 14th Annual CompCord Festival: Comedy, on Friday, May 29 at 7:00 PM at Loft393 (393 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York City). Blending contemporary composition, folk traditions, political satire, and theatrical performance, the concert transforms the polka into a vehicle for social commentary, absurdist humor, and musical rebellion.

At a time when political discourse often veers toward the surreal, the program responds with music that is equally incisive and outrageous. Through exaggerated gestures, subversive texts, and playful distortions of vernacular traditions, these works confront power structures while reveling in the comic.

The evening features compositions by Natasha Bogojevich, Charles Coleman, Dan Cooper, Lara St. John, Eugene W. McBride, Ginka Mizuki, Gene Pritsker, Jay Rozen, William Schimmel, Marina Vesic, Joseph Martin Waters, and Stefan Zeniuk, with featured works including:

• Grab That Pussy Polka – Gene Pritsker
• Let’s (All Now) Yodel! – William Schimmel
• The Little Room Behind Your Left Ear – Joseph Martin Waters
• Polka – Eugene W. McBride

Performed by the CompCord Polka Band:

• Charles Coleman, vocals
• Michiyo Suzuki, clarinet
• Stefan Zeniuk, saxophone
• William Schimmel, accordion
• Jay Rozen, tuba
• Cesare Papetti, drums
• Max Pollak, dance

As the culminating event of this year’s CompCord Festival: Comedy, the concert underscores the festival’s exploration of humor not as diversion, but as a profound artistic and political strategy. Through irony, absurdity, and exuberant collective performance, CompCord Polka Band asks what happens when protest learns to dance.

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Event Details
What: CompCord Polka Band
When: Friday, May 29th at 7pm
Where: Loft393 - 393 Broadway (2nd floor), NYC​​

Composers
Natasha Bogojevich, Charles Coleman, Dan Cooper, Lara St. John, Eugene W. McBride, Ginka Mizuki, Gene Pritsker, Jay Rozen, William Schimmel, Marina
Vesic, Joseph Martin Waters, and Stefan Zeniuk, with featured works including:

Performers
CompCord Polka Band:
Charles Coleman, vocals
Michiyo Suzuki, clarinet
Stefan Zeniuk, saxophone
William Schimmel, accordion
Jay Rozen, tuba
Cesare Papetti, drums
Max Pollak, dance

TICKETS
$30 at the door, $20 in advance
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