CHARMAS is a World Music band from Santa Cruz, California, whose subgenres include Celtic Fusion, Surf Rock, Sea Music, Pub Songs, Indie Rock songs, and Progressive Instrumental music. For KZread, Charmas creates entertaining music videos, and posts footage from their live performances in the San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay Area. Sometimes they also post music performed by their friends. Occasionally they publish goofy holiday videos, and now they are plotting to cover a Led Zeppelin song with Great Highland Bagpipes. So you never know what will come next!
Charmas generally performs as either a 5-piece band or trio, however Charmas also records music as a collective band, sometimes including its former members and musical friends, whose banjo, keys, mandolin, and bodhran have expanded the band's core instrumentation of fiddle, flute, tin whistle, Great Highland bagpipes, saxophone, guitar, bass, and drums.