| Hands On |
Members
of RIGO set up a gourd info booth at the Richmond
Folk Festival with 'Gourd Petting Zoo' and
'Hands On' musical instrument demonstrations.
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Water
drums,
guiros, friction gourds, shakers, djembe drums, shiska drums, rainsticks, and talking drums. |
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The
Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra disseminate
seeds and information on how to grow, dry gourds, craft and play
the musical instruments.
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Gourd
Petting
Zoo
where kids and adults can handle dried
gourds and get to know a once revered but now almost forgotten vegetable
- one that escaped the food chain.
