Fully Celebrated Orchestra/I Want A Cat at Lizard Lounge – Cambridge, MA

$12/$15 door

The Fully Celebrated Orchestra has been a force on the Boston music scene since saxophonist/composer Jim Hobbs and bassist Timo Shanko started playing free jazz at punk rock clubs and street corners in the late 1980s. Still going strong as underground legends over three decades later, FCO also features cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, drummer Luther Gray, and guitarist Ian Ayers. Their latest album, Sob Story on Relative Pitch Records, was released in February ’24.

I Want a Cat engages in the long forgotten practices of ritualistic shapeshifting and shadow integration. They do it to summon the inner cat in all of us and to merge our exiled selves with the modern machinations of the disembodied robotic society. To maximize efficacy, they keep their sacred tools as diverse as they are loud – fiddle shredding, explosive guitar playing, driving basslines, melodic drumming, longform storytelling, choreographed dance, balls of yarn, and tons of catnip..like, a TON of catnip.