The Bengsons

Shaun and Abigail Bengson are a husband-and-wife duo from Brooklyn who perform in a variety of different mediums. The latter has penned original off-Broadway musicals, while together the pair has performed as electro-wonders Zombie Nationalists. The project called the Bengsons is a vaudevillian indie-rock show, and its influences are all over the map. At times, the pair sounds like Janis Joplin and David Byrne reinterpreting the Charles Manson catalog; other inspirations range from '70s sunshine pop à la the Poppy Family to a slightly less lyrical Richard Buckner. The Bengsons doesn't stop at pushing the experimental envelope, either; the duo are also teachers and activists who have completed a number of artist residencies across the country and taught in New York City public schools and at an orphanages and missions across South America.