Already amassing millions of fans around the world who have discovered the band through their wildly popular videos, their vibrant social media following or at one of their sold out headline shows or festival appearances across Europe, North and South America, the band’s music attracts audiences of all backgrounds, carrying with it an infectious energy. NPR’s Bob Boilen caught them at last year’s SxSW and subsequently proclaimed them one of that year’s festival “break out bands”, describing them as a “totally on-fire, big-ass brass band. They are so full of life, with such a fresh take on brass — gnarly, punky and funky”.

Getting their start in Lucky Chops as teenagers at NYC’s renowned LaGuardia High School of Music and Performing Arts, trombonist Josh Holcomb, sousaphonist Raphael Buyo, and saxophonist and bass clarinetist Daro Behroozi started playing together outside of class, adapting the pop and rock music that they knew and loved into modern brass band tunes and performing them live in parks and parades around the metropolitan city.  “Growing up in New York City, we were all exposed to so many different cultures and music and people, and that uniquely New York experience really defines our band,” explains Holcomb. “Our music is inclusive of such a diverse range of experiences, and we invite all people to share in the magic.” Adding rising stars in trumpeter Joshua Gawel and drummer Charles Sams IV to round out their fresh emerging sound and line-up, the band began to broaden and define their sound even more incorporating an expanding range of sounds and stylistic influences in their music.

Lucky Chops is Josh Holcomb (trombone), Daro Behroozi (tenor sax, bass clarinet), Raphael Buyo (sousaphone), Joshua Gawel (trumpet), and Charles Sams IV (drums). Walter E.P. was released independently on April 21, 2017.