By Joy Vann
Correspondent
On a recent Saturday, while many teens enjoyed an unusually warm and sunny day outside, students from around Hampton Roads gathered to bang on metal drums.
They were learning to make music, keeping tradition alive and building on a 10-year Virginia Arts Festival effort. Simply put, they were fine-tuning for today’s Rhythm Live! production in Norfolk.
About 100 young people will sing and dance through the story of Caribbean steel pan and Calypso music, dressed in island finery, masquerade costumes and traditional African attire as they play modern and vintage percussion instruments.
Besides West African music and Caribbean folk songs like “Coconut Woman” and “Tingalayo,” they’ll do classical pieces such as the “Barber of Seville” overture and “Ava Maria,” and pop tunes like Weeknd’s “Can’t Feel My Face.”
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