Percussion!

Wooldridge Park is celebrating its hundredth anniversary. An edgy festival called Fusebox is bringing performances to venues all over Austin. Fusebox commissioned the extremely talented Graham Reyolds to write a piece for a percussion ensemble. If you can call this group of drummers, shakers, vibe players and a bass fiddle an ensemble. It was impossible to capture the hoard of players. (The Piece was entitled "A Piece for Fifty Drummers.") The group spilled off the bandstand behind Graham (in the blue shirt) who conducted in the conventional way and with a whistle and took a solo on found objects like metal buckets and an old rusted propane container. Enlarge the picture for a better view of Graham and the others. It was a fun twenty-five minutes with little kids racing down the hills and a variety of citizens sprawled across the park listening. Notice that we've had some rain and the grass is greener than it was here.