Music is often hard to categorize, especially when one is aiming for a new kind of sound. Inspired by everything from hardcore punk to Mediterranean rock to Klezmer to Caribbean brass, The eXtended Family plays music which is punk in spirit and joyous in melody, a new kind of blend we call ro-punk...
Yula Beeri (singer/songwriter/piano/guitar/bass) ex World Inferno, Star Fucking Hipsters and NaNuchKa fronts this unique Ro-Punk outfit with members of Gato Loco, The Torcher Chamber Ensemble, This Way to the Egress. They come together as THE Extended Family. Since their first show at Le Poisson Rouge in February 2009, Yula and the eXtended Family have toured extensively along the East coast and the SouthWest, and released two cds (Dark Side of The Bee, and Victor). Yula and the eXtended Family are constantly growing new music, and the next cd will be released in early 2011, with many more to come! Frequent Members: Isaac Gardner (drummer/ sound effects artist) builder, performer who recently finished a run of his one-man show, We Are But Dust, and has long crated the arts of theater and percussion... Daniel J Gerstle (bass/ guitar) also writer and photographer for HELO Magazine (http://www.helomagazine.org/)... Stefan Zeniuk (saxophone/ clarinet/ prankster) also leads the brass band, Gato Loco Cococino (http://www.gatolocomusica.com/), as well as the sound assault force, The Baritone Army...
Sarah Zar (lyricist/ musical saw/ vocals) painter, website designer, songwriter, sculptress, curator of art shows, also plays in Row Raven Row and The Torcher Chamber Ensemble, as well as with singer/songwriter Shayfer James...
Kate Campbell (trumpet/ glockenspiel/ vocals/ piano) also plays in The Torcher Chamber Ensemble, storyteller...
Rob "Robitussin" Meyer (trombone) also plays in The Torcher Chamber Ensemble, aspiring landscape designer, merman... Occasional Members:
Taylor Galassi (lyricist/ accordion/ cello) also one-third of the cabaret punk trio, This Way to the Egress (http://www.thiswaytotheegress.com/site/)...
Roy Gurel (guitar/ bass) also plays with Electro-Morocco and Nanuchka... Key Supporters:
Kriss Marchena (manager) poet, culinary artist...
Mike Cuttita (cello) plays in Torcher Chamber Ensemble, storyteller, aspiring architect...
Alyssa Tanchachaa (photographer)
Bree Buryk (aerial silks)
Brian Baxters (random serendipity) beekeeper, provider of vans and filming locations, Native American ceremony leader
Gokce
Haim Bargig
HELO Magazine
Honor Amongst Thieves
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Yula and the Extended Family (Y&XFM) is an ever-growing, ever-morphing poetic tribe. 
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