where do i begin
STOMP! is every percussionists dream, and if your not a percussionist or drummer you'll wanna be after seeing STOMP!
STOMP! is a percussion group with a difference, they only use household and everyday objects such as brooms, trash bins, tin cans, pretty much the kind of stuff your parents told you not to tap but your nan actively encouraged you to play as a toddler!
i for one , being a drummer, have wanted to see this for a very long time now, i don't want this to sound too much like a review but it was awesome, they combined amazing rhythms with a carefully planned out plot so that each section ran almost like a story, then they injected just the right amount of humour and audience participation to keep everyone fully engaged. everyone in the theatre from small kids right through to OAP's seemed to be enjoying it, and for me and i suspect a few other drum types it was heaven, finally something that encourages you to not sit still and tap along and groove a rhythm with them!
if you haven't seen it yet, it's fully recommended!!! if i had to give it marks out of 10 i would give it a strong 20+ it's that good! but you have to see it live.
but here is a little taster of the kind of thing to expect
go book your tickets soon
they picked and made themselves. they were very pleased with themselves when we told them they had just unwittingly read music. another group taught some composition using pictures they got the kids to think about the picture's and how they could relate the instrument sounds to the picture. then create some noise's to capture the picture. O.K so they weren't mini Mozart's but they had fun and made some 'music' for themselves. the third and final group used colourful xylophones with corresponding notation that we had prepared so they were playing a piece of arranged music from sheet music not a bad hour considering many had never done music before let alone read, played arranged music (even if it was nursery rhymes) and composed.