(photos by Erika Steenburg)
The kids at the Alamosa, Colorado, Public Library this morning were so into singing that I added verses, repeated songs and gave everyone free reign to bang along through a big chunk of the set with the instruments I shared. With two dozen kids beating drums with abandon, with all that banging and booming and carrying on, the non-musical among us may have considered what they heard to be cacophony. To musical me, who appreciates not only the cantankerous musicality of the kids’ performance but also revels its liberating spirit…? Okay, yeah. Cacophony.
