Thomas Maddux - Banjo, Chord Organ, Mandolin, Tenor Guitar, Ukulele, Vocals
Cody D. Fitzpatrick I - Percussion
Thomas "TR" Reinert - Bass
Aleko Loughrey - Classical Guitar
Jonah the Destroyer - Accordion, Saw
Turkeyes Laffity - Vocals
Tyler Nordmark - Cornet / Trumpet
Bennie Netzley - Sousaphone
Beginning in 2005, Thomas Maddux started to play with minor chords and darker tones. This came to fruition in 2010 with the release of the Circus EP as El Le Faunt, singing songs of his love of vaudeville, the circus, Russian folk stories, the cabaret, and people long forgotten with troubled minds with disturbed souls. Joining him now is His Traveling Circus which is composed of Cody D Fitzpatrick on Percussion, Tom Reinert on Bass, Aleko Loughrey on Classical Guitar, Jonah the Destroyer on Acco.. More >>rdion, Clarinet, and Saw, Turkeyes Laffity with her back-up vocals, Tyler Nordmark on Cornet, and Bennie Netzley on Sousaphone.
"The vaudeville-esque El Le Faunt a.k.a. Thomas Maddux brings to mind a charmingly wicked, mustachioed version of Tom Waits...if Tom Waits lived inside the twisted mind of Neil Gaiman, that is. Flanked by a quirky cast of characters wielding mandolins, fiddles, melodicas, clarinets, saws and more, El Le Faunt's "Traveling Circus" is one part performance art and one part hypnotizing Euro-folk." -SecretsoftheCity.com
This music is like a train wreck set to melody with a burning fire of harmony emitting plumes of smoke made out of pure cleverness and while the rails of the tracks it was riding on shatter into a million pieces they impact the soil and exhume the corpses of forgotten desires and nightmares It is the derailing of a skeletal circus, a symphony of macabre Troy Otto
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