The Opera Bell Band is a Saint Louis based outfit with a madcap, eclectic style. Their work is a colorful hash of American musical traditions: wall-of-sound rock n roll, exuberant pop triviality, novelty jazz, jugband, Tin Pan Alley, calypso, cajun, and country-western balladry. Live shows incorporate elements of vaudeville, surrealist sketch comedy, and folk theater.
The band has a reputation as an energetic multimedia machine, known for digging into the realms of film, sculpture, interactive public art, poetry, and so on. Their stop-motion animated short film, Green Lemon Buggy, was awarded by Cinema St. Louis and featured in the St. Louis International Film Festival, and their second album, Bell-Slide, was named by the Riverfront Times as one of the top ten local albums of 2019. Giant Crab, released in May 2025, is their third and most recent album.
"Pure, rockin', psychedelic joy pop" –Vintage Vinyl
