When a friend began suffering from dementia, Andy King wanted to help him retain his memory. So, he created something memorable. A ukulele orchestra. If the very idea sounds whimsical — this humble ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — It's a story destined for the big screen: a group of Paraguayan kids with little money but a big love of music create an orchestra using instruments made from trash. Using ...

They’ve got the beet. A touring orchestra using instruments entirely of vegetables just earned itself a world record. The Vegetable Orchestra, which only plays instruments that are carved out of ...

When the average person thinks of gongs, the swell of a loud bang probably comes to mind. The Nakatani Gong Orchestra doesn't sound like that. Since Tatsuya Nakatani makes most of the instruments by ...

Music can come from surprising places—even zoo animal enclosures. One group of (human) performers is proving that you don’t even need conventional instruments to make melodies. The Vienna Vegetable ...

Members of the Butler Philharmonic Orchestra will give kids an insider’s look at the instruments they play and show how the various sounds come together as “Meet the Music 2″ returns to the Fitton ...

Meet Tim Linhart, an ice sculptor from Colorado who is based in Sweden. Which makes perfect sense, because ice. Linhart is the founder of Ice Music, an entire orchestra of what he calls “ICEstruments, ...