Comics Mike Barton and Josh Dunkin—both Second City alums and both founding members of the Pub Theater Company—long struggled to find an audience for a particular brand of humor. Perhaps that’s because the duo doesn’t always gift-wrap its jokes for the audience. Instead, Barton and Dunkin sing them in the comedy-rock band Nashville. “You’re in between being a musician playing at a music venue and a comedian playing during an open mike,” Barton says.
Since the festival’s first year, Barton and Dunkin have seen more musical-comedy acts popping up, and they’re excited to find a place where they finally fit in. “It’s refreshing to see a show where people are all doing the same thing,” Barton says. “It’s cool to be a part of this small niche community that is bigger than we originally knew.”
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