RIGO title

Original music played on handmade instruments made from locally grown gourds, the Gourd Orchestra plays its own brand of paleolithic lounge music – mixing past with present, rhythm with melody, and chaos with order.


Plant A Seed, Grow An Orchestra.
Be a maker, not just a consumer.

 

The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra played at
the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012
Farm to Table Family Day
The Urban Sketchers of Washington, D.C. were at the National Portrait Gallery for the World Wide Sketchcrawl
and happened upon the Gourd Orchestra in the Kogod Courtyard.
Here are a few sketches by Joel Winstead.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/urbansketchersdc/pool/

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Pippin

kogod courtyard

Kogod Courtyard at the National Portrait Gallery -
RIGO played in this evocative space with a modern canopy designed by architectural firm Foster + Partners.
The American Art Museum is on the left and the National Portrait Gallery is on the right.

 

We are looking forward to more Gourd Adventures in 2012.

The Gourd Trio with Khalima Dance at Balliceaux. 11-20-2011

Photo by Otway Chalkley.



rigo at brookside

The Gourd Orchestra at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, MD
9-17-11


Are gourds a vegetable or a fruit?

You decide.

 

 


• The Land of Gourds and Honey •
a new video from the Gourd Orchestra

pippin projection

The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra played at the Richmond Public Library
on Aug. 10, 2011. We had a gourd slide show and music performance.


stickhouse

The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra at Patrick Doughtery's Stickhouse project in Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens, Richmond, VA

 

 

 

 

email for info and booking - arthur@gourdorchestra.com

email us || Last updated Jan. 26, 2012

 

 







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