Back in 2007, following the Fall for Dance festival in New York, one Gotham critic described the Minneapolis-based tap phenom Buckets and Tap Shoes (created by urban hipsters Rick and Andy Ausland) as looking “as if [they] had just walked out of a Phish reunion than from the stage at City Center.”

Another writer, however, enthused that the troupe,  “a little-known and utterly brilliant group from Minneapolis,” ignited the audience with “virtuoso” percussion playing and “extraordinary” tapping that was “as capable of channeling hip-hop as Astaire-like suavity.”

This weekend, the troupe lands at the Music Box Theatre in Minneapolis after touring around the world. The boys blend their street-musician sensibility (they spent years drumming paint buckets and tap dancing outside of the Metrodome, for instance) with their developing sense for creating shows for the concert stage.

For a sample, go here.

The group’s shows usually begin with no-holds-barred bucket drumming and tapping, then mix in original live funk music, then add dashes of improvisation, magic tricks—well, one never really knows. In the past, shows have concluded with a raucous tribal drum jam—with the all-ages audience joining in on buckets and drumsticks passed out to grandpas and kids alike.

Here’s all one can assume about this weekend’s show: it’ll be amazing and entertaining.

8:00 p.m. Thursday-Saturday; 2:00 p.m. Saturday; 7:00 p.m. Sunday. Music Box Theatre, 1407 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis. $16-$20. (612) 871-1414.