Asheville Vaudeville: A Brunch Spectacular

Featuring an all-star lineup with music, dance, puppetry, comedy, burlesque, mirth, and much, much more!

Asheville Vaudeville and special guest, Danbert Nobacon of the legendary
anarcho-punk band, Chumbawamba, will collaborate in the upcoming
installment of Asheville Vaudeville Brunch, themed "Extravaganza
Antifascismo." The performance will feature Danbert Nobacon’s original
acoustic music whilst a ragtag group of clowns and freaks come together to
create an amusing array of mayhem and maybe even rescue democracy from
the threat of a nefarious fascist regime by using their superpowers of comedy,
comradery, common sense, sensuality, and an earnest exercising of their
collective free-speech muscles.
Asheville Vaudeville is WNC’s largest and longest-running variety show, known
for bringing together a revolving lineup of WNC’s best comedy, juggling, magic,
belly dance, burlesque, acrobatics, aerialists, clowns, short plays, sideshow,
puppetry, music, and more into entertaining Vaudeville revue-style
performances. The ever-evolving group of artists has been collaborating under
this banner since 2002, with notable long-time staples including Toybox,
America’s Favorite Cartoon Witch; Rigel the Clown; Claire Dima, Barefoot
Bellydancer Extraordinaire; and others.
Danbert Nobacon was a founding member of the legendary British-based
Anarcho-punk band, Chumbawamba. The band was known in England for
decades for their committed activism with message-laden songs, prankster
antics, benefit performances, and feet on the ground to promote animals’ rights,
workers’ rights, LGBTQ+ rights and protection, women’s rights, free speech,
anti-authoritarianism, political prisoners’ rights, anti-war agendas, and
environmental conservationism. Chumbawamba were catapulted to the world
stage with their chart-topping anthem, “Tubthumping.”
Danbert Nobacon continues to create meaningful art both solo and in new
collaborative projects to promulgate his views of what humanity could aspire
towards through music, writing, theater, comedy, and community activism. His
songs are dense with lyrics and woven together with a series of skits into full
length albums that convey more like theatrical performances. This quality of his
composition style is highlighted in the name of his most recent LP, “Kochtopus’s
Garden – Now That’s What I Call Capitalism – The Musical.”
Danbert’s website describes him as a freak, music legend, author,
artist, mischievous political goblin, genre-hopping punk-folk thespian,
Chumbawamba alumni, who lives in and works out of, Twisp, WA, in the foothills
of the Cascade Mountains, in North Central Washington, USA.
His performance with Asheville Vaudeville at The Grey Eagle will be the last
stop on his 2025 US East Coast tour, “Exit War, East-o-ween.” The tour’s name
was meant to bring attention to the horrific genocide of the Palestinian people in
Gaza and the need for the US to divest from its involvement in funding and
arming the killing. Since the plans for the peace-promoting tour began, that
conflict, as well as cultural tensions here in the US, tragically, have only
escalated. In this collaborative effort, the artists hope to bring their audience just
the right balance of entertainment, education, comedic catharsis, actionable
solutions, and hope.

Tickets $25 Day of Show

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