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The Blasting CompanyIts not very well-worn, but the Nashville street band to composer pipeline has certainlybeen a distinctive, if tempered, fairy-tale arc for Joshua Kaufman and JustinRubenstein, the brothers at the helm ofThe Blasting Company.For years, curiosityand circumstance guided them through the streets of the US and Europe as theyaccumulated a blend of American folk and Eastern European influences, grandorchestral tendencies, and inescapably modern sensibilities, eventually landing them inLos Angeles, where they found a home for most of it in the world of film and television.Their first and perhaps most notable venture into scoring was for the critically-acclaimedanimated miniseries,Over the Garden Wall,which has become a seasonal staple for agrowing fanbase worldwide whenever fall - or its equatorial approximate - is in the air.Other composing ventures include music written forBurlesque, the New York Times/Serial podcastThe Kids of Rutherford County, Adult Swims The Elephant, and a three-album soundtrack for table top role playing campaign,The Crooked Moon.Their recentreleases feature collaborations with Tom Kenny (Spongebob Squarepants), HaleyReinhart (Post-Modern Jukebox), Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Concords), and one oftheir all-time musical heroes, arranger and composer Van Dyke Parks.The Blasting Companysjourney has been one dedicated to their artistic communityand their craft. This, and the eagerness with which they explore musics expansivestorytelling potential has made them sought-after collaborators anywhere music can beof use, from Emmy-winning animation to Peabody Award-caliber investigativejournalism. Wherever theyre found and wherever theyll end up, their music continuesto introduce new generations to a panoply of musical traditions, old and new, tailored totheir own particular - and peculiar - point of view.The ShowStarting with the 10th anniversary shows in LA back in 2024,The Blasting Company hashoped for their live Over the Garden Wall concert to capture, above all, the well-wornwarmth of a night spent in the company of good friends who happen to enjoy playingmusic together. Fortunately, the super-band of multi-instrumentalists, comprised of TheBlasting Company and California Feetwarmers, most of whom played on the originalsoundtrack, has enjoyed traveling and playing music together for most of their adultlives.Together with friends and local special guests, the band plans to faithfully expand on theoriginal soundtrack and invite folks to experience it the way the composers did: as apatchwork of the beautiful artistic personalities that came together to make it, as anhomage to and continuation of the generations of art and music that inspired it, andmost of all, as a chance for good friends and strangers to open their hearts up to eachother just a little bigger and belt out a few new-old tunes the very best they can.