In the fall of 1995 some tenderfoot college music students convened to try their hands at playing music that echoed America’s oldest sounds while stepping fast-footed with modern soul and urgency.

The past couple decades have burnished the band. After hundreds of live shows, four studio albums, and recording with legends like Bootsy Collins & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, New Basics is in prime form.

They have done what few bands succeed in doing – enduring. And while navigating the ebbs & flows, and twists & turns, they have remained excited to do what they’ve done since day one: sharing feel-good music