I was up in Appalachian country this past weekend, and was caught by a wonderful surprise. The retreat from city life and into fresh air was nice but there was one particular event that really turn up the smile on my face. Straight from the soil of Virgina to the auditory canal of my ear, The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra put on quite a show.

They are refer to themselves as “A band of musicians with dirt under their fingernails–they put the ‘cult’ back into culture, and ‘culture’ back into agriculture.”

It was a fun highlight of the weekend, and thought the idea was pretty clever.

Check them out on their website at gourdorchestra.com

While your there look at the instruments they made or pick up a cd.

(and yes they are on myspace too)

“Plant a seed, grow an orchestra”

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