
When its standing, two-hour practice sessions came to a dead stop after more than 15 years at the same location, at the same time, Mucca Pazza was left wondering how it would carry on in the wake of the pandemic. It was difficult enough for artists to survive the months of shutdown, but what about a rockin’ marching band/theater troupe of 30-odd people?
“It was a dark time,” confesses Andy Dietrich, one of the act’s original drummers and composers and treasurer of its business arm, Leather Bus.