Austin’s Grupo Fantasma offers groovy mix

“Anyone who’s truly interested in music is familiar with the reputation of Austin, Texas. The city is spoken of in the same reverent tones reserved for Nashville, for New Orleans, for New York and L.A. It hosts both the South by Southwest Music Conference and the Austin City Limits festival. It regularly produces famous singer-songwriters, country bands and punk acts. It is universally regarded as one of America’s most fertile musical meccas.

It’s no small feat, then, to be lauded - not just once, but consistently, and in various publications across the nation - as the best live band in “the live music capital of the world.” The distinction is even more remarkable when it’s being bestowed not on the newest alt-country group or rootsy troubador, but rather an 11-piece orchestra that’s both carrying on and reinventing the Latin big-band tradition - Grupo Fantasma.”

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