Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra**CANCELLED**
April 16, 2016
10:00 AM
The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra resides in Richmond, Virginia, where members grow gourds, make instruments and create music. A band of musicians with dirt under their fingernails--they put the "cult" back into culture, and "culture" back into agriculture.
In an age prone to technological idolatry and cultural narcissism, where electronic media seems endlessly fascinated with itself, the Gourd Orchestra directly reaffirms their relationship with nature.
You will hear musical ideas from around the world transformed and given life from the soil of Virginia. And you will hear sounds from spirits unique to this place.
Dressed in custom made costumes and headgear, they give gardening tips, delve into gourd lore, brag about their vast, if questionable, ethnomusicological knowledge, and generally try to explain themselves. But mostly they play "gourdeous " music. "I planted a seed and grew an orchestra!" proclaims Arthur " Professor of Gourdology" Stephens.
In an age prone to technological idolatry and cultural narcissism, where electronic media seems endlessly fascinated with itself, the Gourd Orchestra directly reaffirms their relationship with nature.
You will hear musical ideas from around the world transformed and given life from the soil of Virginia. And you will hear sounds from spirits unique to this place.
Dressed in custom made costumes and headgear, they give gardening tips, delve into gourd lore, brag about their vast, if questionable, ethnomusicological knowledge, and generally try to explain themselves. But mostly they play "gourdeous " music. "I planted a seed and grew an orchestra!" proclaims Arthur " Professor of Gourdology" Stephens.
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