The Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players

(Past) Sat, Nov 19 at 11 am Leonard Nimoy Thalia at Symphony Space ADULTS $20, Members $17 KIDS $13, Members $11 Get the deepest discounts when you subscribe Click the blue subscription button to get started. family Just Kidding

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are an indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band beloved in the downtown NYC music scene. Get ready for a treat as they bring their odd, funny, and enormously creative show uptown for the kids to enjoy along with you.

The band's members are the Trachtenburg family father, Jason Trachtenburg, who plays guitar and piano and sings; the mother, Tina Piña, who runs the slide projector and is a backup singer; and the daughter, Rachel, who plays the drums and sings. Their trademark is the slideshow itself: slides collected from estate sales, garage sales, and thrift stores,  shown alongside the performance as the subject of their songs, and meant to "turn the lives of annonymous strangers into pop-rock musical exposes based on the contents of the slide collections." Get ready for a wild ride.

"The Trachtenburgs are a family you simply must meet. Jason (the father) is the songwriter, Tina (the mother) is the slideshow projector, Rachel (their  daughter) is the drummer, and collectively they form The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players ... Jason, Tina, and Rachel are absolutely worth an hour of your time; let them cleanse your theatre-going palate and make you feel genuinely at home."  -nytheatre.com