There’s the Partridge family. There’s the Brady Bunch. There’s Donny and Marie Osmond. And then there’s the Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players, the next family band phenomenon.

They don’t have a psychedelic bus painted in red, blue, yellow and white squares, but they do have a pink and blue 1983 GMC Suburban. They carry with them hundreds of slides of people they have never met. To say the least, the Trachtenburg’s 2003 autumn tour isn’t your average family vacation.

“Every day on tour is an adventure,” says Jason Trachtenburg, head of the Trachtenburg family and their band. The band includes Jason on keyboards and vocals, his wife Tina, who runs the vintage slide projector, and their 9-year-old daughter Rachel, on drums and vocals.

“We are a conceptual art-rock, pop-rock band,” Jason says. “Our music is extremely artistic, thought-provoking and humorous left-wing stuff.”

The Players known nationally for their very unique musical performances. Their live shows combine live music and a vintage slide show. Jason says some of the music is inspired by the slides, and other times the music is written first and then slides are applied to match the lyrics. “My wife and I buy the slides at the estate sales of deceased strangers,” he says.

“One hand shakes the other,” Jason says. “It keeps the mechanisms rolling.”

Earlier this year, the Players performed on the Conan O’Brien Show, a highlight of their career to this point. Jason says it was nerve-racking preparing to go on stage.

“It was life or death. We had to deliver the goods,” Jason says.

Jason says since their performance on television, the band has become better.

“I feel that we could perform anywhere now,” Jason says. “It’s not going to get much bigger or better than that.”

Jason says his goal for his family band is to continue their development as artists.

“I hope that we will continue to raise the common denominator of being an artist,” Jason says. “I also hope that we will continue to co-exist as a family and an entertainment machine.”

Jason doesn’t hold back on what he thinks of his family band and the quality of music they play.

“We’ll be playing some of best music you’ve ever heard,” Jason says. He describes the typical fan at one of his shows as a very intellectual and intelligent person. He says he can often see his personal “nerd-chic” style in them.

“We have a level of professionalism that is so bizarre,” Jason says. “It’s going to be more than your average dude rock show.”

Who: Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players, Reverend Jen and Kimya Dawson

Where: Maintenance Shop

When: 7:30 p.m., Monday

Cost: $9 student $12 public