Local Band Headed to South by Southwest

Petaluma band The Brothers Comatose is headed to South by Southwest, one of the country’s biggest music festivals held in Austin, Texas next week, no small feat for a group that got its start playing on San Francisco street corners.

The band includes Gio Benedetti, who grew up in Petaluma and spent many years working at the Phoenix Theater, brothers Ben and Alex Morrison, who attended St. Vincent de Paul High School and Phillip Brezina on fiddle and Ryan Avellone on mandolin.

The quintet is known for its twangy Americana sound that’s highly danceable and have already performed at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, the High Sierra Festival and the Great American Music Hall.

Check out a video of the group on the right

Now, they’re getting ready for SXSW, where they will join 2,000 other bands for six days of music, workshops as well as plenty of drinking and industry schmoozing, of course.

If you want to catch The Brothers Comatose locally, see them out at the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center on March 10 and at the Sebastopol Community Center on March 30. For more information, visit thebrotherscomatose.com