Born in Chico, raised up at Burning Man, and brought to urban
fruition in Oakland's Mosswood Park and Lower Bottoms, the
Loyd Family Players take the pulse of traditional Brazilian samba
and twist it into a loud, sweaty, sexy muss that's all their very own. The ten-to-twenty-person coed percussion performance troupe
swipes elements from hip-hop, dance-hall, punk rock, drum n'bass, summer camp ... anything goes. With members hailing from such exotic locales as England, Brazil, Rome, Peru, Antarctica, St. Louis
and Long Island, the Loyds are a foxy, unstoppable (and unstoppably foxy) dance machine.