Grand Fiasco, with Brother Bagman

As Old Man Winter hovers over the Midwest like the thick haze of smoke hanging over the audience during a Phish set break, it’s time to remember that even the roving tribes of the jam-band jet set have an off season. Always ready, willing and able to satiate the Kansas City masses, area improv-rock artists Grand Fiasco and Brother Bagman have built a dedicated local following by applying the jam model in miniature to KC. Although Grand Fiasco seems content with the niche it has carved — the afterparties of national shows breezing through town usually end up wherever these guys are playing — Brother Bagman is looking for more. With its debut album, Notorious B.A.G., complete, the upstart quartet is not-so-quietly preparing to venture into the wider world come spring thaw.