 You've never seen or heard music like this --
He picks up a frame drum the size of a cart wheel, and makes it howl like the wind.
He bends rhythms from a goblet-shaped doumbek as if the sound waves were made of rubber.
Then there's the synthesizer. With a wave of the hand, you get rain, thunder, torrential streams, or something that resembles sounds from outer space.
Meet Tom Teasley, who is -- according to the Washington Post --a "percussionist in the widest and most exuberant sense of the word."
He takes instruments, styles and rhythms from all over the world, from all points in time. And finds new and different ways to mix them together.
You're immersed in a new world of music -- a festival -- with rhythms parading, dancing, playing together into melodies you've never heard before. Join the excitement when traditions from distant cultures discover each other for the first time.
Teachers love to have him do school programs. Kids experience the real life behind the geography, social studies and music lessons, when engaged in music from around the world.
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