The average American throws out almost 5 pounds of solid waste each day. One local musician aims to reduce waste by giving trash a second life.

Ring Elementary School music teacher, Kristen Brunacini, and art teacher, Rebecca Whitman, collaborated together to create a fun and educational project for third grade students that combined English ...

A lack of actual instruments hasn’t stopped the young musicians of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay from achieving national and international fame. Using musical instruments made entirely ...

CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

What will happen to the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, now that new instruments have begun to arrive from well-wishers around the world? The most beautiful instrument that 60 Minutes producer Michael ...

Catch the Recycled Instruments Orchestra of Cateura perform 8:30 p.m. on Saturday at Victorian Room at The Driskill. Music has transformed the lives of an entire community in Paraguay after the launch ...

“Recycled Sounds.” Imagine passing through the parking garage under Austin City Hall and finding a curious tangle of plastic tubes, metal pipes, drumsticks, plastic buckets — all playable music ...

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Recycled Rhythms performs Brazilian-style samba music using instruments that Dunn learned to make while in South America. The instruments sound very similar to traditional ones except the sound tends ...

In the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion, there is a village called Cateura built practically on top of the city’s main landfill. Families eke out a living sorting through the trash and selling whatever ...

The Gasparilla Music Foundation (GMF) and its Recycled Tunes program will hold a Musical Instrument Drive benefiting bay area schools on Saturday, December 7th, from noon until 4:00 p.m. at Sparkman ...

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 ...