Hot Franks / The Tofanas / Bamboo Steamers

Bamboo Steamers Spawned in the cellers, garages and clubs of Western MA's Pioneer Valley. Playing roots Rock & Roll since 1983. The Tofanas (members of Ed's Redeeming Qualities) will take us on a punk opera journey inspired by the actual transcripts of the actual interrogation of 6 resourceful, somewhat witchy badass women, 5 of whom were hung in the summer of 1659, and the 6th of whom lived to tell their stories … according to the Tofanas, who, here and now — in our own regressively dark times — retell those stories in song and in poetry. And wigs. In a punk rock opera! What could go wrong? Hot Franks is a rollicking countrified band delivering memorable Americana originals and a diverse array of cover songs ranging from Patsy Cline to the Ramones. Sure to break your heart with a tear-jerking ballad one minute, then scorch the ground beneath your feet the next. Their marriage of old country, rockabilly, 1960s girl-groups, with a pinch of punk rock yields something old, new, borrowed, and blue.