Con Brio

Con Brio is known to convert anyone who sees their electric live show. Founded by veteran players with vastly different musical backgrounds, the band quickly became a favorite up and down the West Coast, then across the U.S., and then overseas. In 2016, Con Brio's debut LP Paradise paired uplifting dance party-starters (and some psychotropic electric guitar work from Benjamin Andrews) with powerful lyrics about inequality and the Black Lives Matter movement, instantly putting the band on the map for their earnest, inspiring, and thoroughly American ethos. As comedian and CNN commentator W. Kamau Bell put it, they’re our current president’s “worst nightmare: a multiracial band that makes people feel good.”