David Wax Museum at The Iron Horse on Sunday, December 29 2024

Hailed by NPR Music as “pure, irresistible joy” and praised byThe Guardianas "globalcrossover at its best...as cheerfully infectious as it is original," David Wax Museum’s eclectic andexuberant sound blends the ancient and ever-relevant rhythms of traditional Mexican music withamber pop hues and unabashed rock riffs, all tethered together by seductive harmonies. Co-fronted by multi-instrumentalist Suz Slezak with her raucous accordion and sublime fiddlingalong with the charismatic energy of David Wax, their on-stage chemistry is both captivating andintimate.Since their early breakout as a buzz band at the revered Newport Folk Festival, the band hastoured the world with their two young children in tow, performing at festivals in North Americaand Europe, and sharing stages with The Avett Brothers, Los Lobos, The Wood Brothers, Old97’s, Buena Vista Social Club, Gregory Alan Isakov, Watchouse, Josh Ritter, and Guster, amongothers. Transmitting their kinetic energy in platforms includingCBS This Morning: Saturday, Tiny Desk Concert, and NPR’s World Cafe, they have also soundtracked love stories on and offscreens, from the Netflix #1 show Firefly Laneto the wedding of US Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg. Canada's CKUA Radio praised their latest albumYou Must Change Your Life as "truly transformative -- a colorful, multi-layered dream world which speaks to both the mostearthly and the most ineffable sides of our human existence.”“Another genius album from David Wax Museum.” —The Boston Herald

“On the exhilaratingYou Must Change Your Life, this Virginia twosome celebrates pure pop music in all its wondrous diversity, mixing traditional Mexican ingredients and mainstream guitars and keyboards to create polished songs with a bracing immediacy.” —No Depression