The Shabby Road Orchestra is an ad-hoc 13-piece Minneapolis rock collective dedicated to staging intermittent, sprawling and over-achieving live recreations of the Beatles iconic studio years albums, note-for-note complete with sound effects, harmonies, Lennon-esque idiosyncrasies and largely authentic instrumentation on the occasion of their 50th anniversary year. The show is a celebration of the Beatles late-period music, with no wigs, costumes or impersonations but periodic bursts of sly banter and plenty of good cheer.  It has consistently sold-out Minneapolis’s best music listening rooms, including The Dakota, Icehouse, the Parkway and the Chanhassen.