A Great Show...

The Angelina Arts Alliance hosted a performance by Collision of Rhythm at Temple Theater last Friday night. It was a great performance, a cheap ticket ($11 adult), and being a multi instrumentalist myself and having had a couple of kids playing drums in band and percussion recitals similar to this show it really targeted my musical interests.    

 The duo had a great combination of drums and percussion, beatboxing, sax, flute, piano, singing and tap dancing. One member mentioned a long career of performing on Disney cruises and the other mentioned teaching. There were some serious chops, charisma and evidence of 10,000 hours of work on your instrument.  

I didn't take any photos as they encouraged you put down your phone and participate by singing and clapping. Thanks to the Lufkin Daily for this picture. They had apparently performed for a public school field trip for about 800 kids earlier in the day and though me and Cathy attended this show as a date night I should have brought any grandkid I thought could sit still. 

May 29th the musical STOMP!, another percussion show which I have seen a couple of times is on the schedule. I'll be there and take the kids. I didn't buy season tickets to the Alliance this year because I thought that even though they have safe favorites of the locals that have performed here before on the schedules the list is not as strong in the past but there are still several worthy acts. 

If you see an act you like support the Alliance. You will pay more in the big city to see these groups and it's great we have these things come here.