traditional wind and percussion music from central-eastern China
​​​​​​​Anhui Province, China

The Zhou Family Band plays traditional music that joyfully upends Western expectations of Chinese music—and Chinese musicians. As the band has begun to tour internationally, they invariably surprise and impress; they were universally acclaimed as a highlight of 2017’s WOMAD festival, where one delighted reviewer declared them “musically impressive and ridiculously slapstick in nature, often simultaneously.”