Dendê Macêdo plays a berimbau made from a broom, a bell, a coconut and a spring during a performance of his Recycled Sounds workshop at St. Edmond’s Home for Children. Dendê Macêdo drove his silver ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Croninger Elementary applied a unique twist to their Earth Day celebration. Parents of students were asked to preserve any paper towel rolls, metal cans, plastic bottles and ...

TAMPA, Fla. — The Pepin Academy Welding program is taking old, unused instruments and turning them into art which will be featured this weekend at the Gasparilla Music Festival in downtown Tampa.

While recycling is a great way to help the environment, it’s hardly exciting. Yet there’s a lot more that can be done with recycled materials if you set your mind to it. Gain inspiration at the ...

Hua Lin Xie, trans. from the French by Edward Gauvin. Graphic Universe, $14.99 paper (136p) ISBN 978-1-728-47823-4 Based on the true story of a Paraguayan orchestra whose instruments were made from ...

What do a fork, a wooden artist’s palette, and a shoe brush all have in common? Well, at first glance, nothing. However, on November 22, audience members were forced to rethink that question while ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. If you’ve got an old musical instrument ...

PHOENIX — It’s hard to imagine that soup cans, plastic paint tubs and spoons can be key pieces to musical instruments. Forks and spatulas can hold strings in place; buttons and caps fit nicely along a ...

A program called Recycled Tunes can put it to good use and make it sing again. On Saturday, February 14, you can drop off used instruments at The Kitchen. That's at 2216 1st Avenue North in St. Pete.

TAMPA, Fla. - There's no doubt Gasparilla Music Festival is a great place to sing and dance to your favorite tunes, but it's also the non-profit Gasparilla Music Foundation's biggest fundraiser of the ...

David Colorado, the leader of the Colombian band Alibombo Percusion, drives around his hometown of Medellin in a three-wheeled auto rickshaw, traveling from gig to gig carrying his homemade ...