Saturday Market #27: Youth Music Showcases are such a huge treat!

I know I've gone on about this before, and I'll keep going on about it because it's so heartening and inspiring to watch! Youth Music Showcases are truly delightful, and Beth Rose is doing a wonderful job of finding kids to play and coordinating the whole thing. This week we had several students of Scotty Perey, keyboardist extraordinaire of the Sugar Beets, followed by a group from Kutsinhira Marimba Center. Among the highlights for me:

August Kuhlman did a great rendition of a song about gnomes - maybe it was a Pink Floyd song? In the cape, feet swinging, plugging along through the occasional stumbling block of missed chords, so much fun!



And I loved Cora Bower's version of the Sugar Beets classic "Sad Eyes."



The Kustinhira group is called Mutswi Wambuya Youth Marimba Band, and is led by Bud Cohen and Nick Gusset. Somewhere during their set I realized that Bud and Nick were about the age of the kids they are teaching (or younger, probably) when I first saw them play on the Market stage with their parents in marimba bands. Wow, that makes me really happy, to see those who were musical kids now passing the music forward and making more musical kids.