With the release of their last two live CD/DVDs, Brooklyn-based instrumental shapeshifter Snarky Puppy has gone from an underground secret to one of the most internationally respected names in instrumental music. The 3-time Dallas Observer Music Award winning group fuses a deep knowledge and respect for musical tradition with sonic and conceptual innovation in a way that is able to reach the most critical-or most carefree-audience. The core of the group, which remains consistent, features Grammy Award-winners Robert Sput Searight on drums and Shaun Martin on keys. Led by award-winning bassist/composer Michael League, Snarky Puppy delivers raw funk and sensitive dynamics, relentless pocket and lyrical melodicism, lush harmony and soulful simplicity, and most importantly, a delicate mixture of composition and improvisation.