« Ballooning in Second Life | Main | Prelude to a Change of Mind » Samba DrumsYesterday Marsha and I went to a steel drum concert by members of the Inside Out Steel Pan project led by C.J. Menge, playing with steel bands from various Austin schools. Menge is artist in residence working with the steel bands for Bowie and McCallum High Schools as well as Covington Middle School. They perform occasionally, one venue being Austin Lyric Opera's Armstrong Community Music School, which is where they were playing yesterday, which was also Carnaval in Austin. At the end of the steel drum concert, Acadêmicos da Ópera showed up for an impromptu performance. I think they were warming up for their performance at Carnaval last night. We were blown away by the great high-energy romp and the kinetic energy of Acadêmicos leader Robert Patterson, which I captured in a bit of video posted below. Unfortunately there's no sound, but several sound snippets are jon posted this at 10:26 AM |
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