When the grand Music Academy of the West’s festival rolls into town each summer, collaborations with local venues and cultural organizations are part of the package. The collab list even includes Home Depot, believe it or not.
Or so we’ve been told by percussion faculty head Michael Werner in the annual and ever-popular “PercussionFest” concerts during the festival schedule. As part of the flexible tool kits and inventive instrumentation of contemporary percussion music, household implements and objects are fair game as ad hoc musical instruments. Home Depot (and Home Improvement), here they come.
Always one of the more creative, unpredictable and crowd-pleasing events of the academy season, PercussionFest is making the bold upward move from its customary home in the intimate on-campus Hahn Hall to the Big House of The Granada Theatre this year, on Thursday, July 3.
