Monday, April 04, 2005

Conference Sights and Sounds

The Sunday General Session was preceded by the music group Can Line Pan Line from Witter Elementary School in Hillsborough County, Fla. The students used trash cans and lids, steel buckets, and oil barrels as instruments to perform what the director called a combination of the movies Stomp and Drumline. The rhythmic performance was accompanied by modern dance routines that combined stomps and shimmies.

The final number was performed using oil barrels designed to sound like steel drums including a melody drum and a guitar pan that mimicked the sound of a guitar being strummed.

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