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Why Sing When You Can Snap?
International Body Music Festival at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park Bandshell
Celina Kalluk and Lucie Idlout singing Inuit vocal games (Photo: Celina Calluk)
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There’ll be no armpit farts or other noises that bring out the 10-year-old boy in all of us at the International Body Music Festival, held today at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park Bandshell. Instead, the festival, produced by Crosspule and directed by Keith Terry, urges people to “snap, clap, step holler and sing artful music.” Our bodies are the original music instrument, after all; humans could whistle long before the guitar was invented.
The free concert will consist of four distinct body music styles throughout the Americas, including the Oakland-based Slammin’, who combine beatboxing and a capella; twelve-piece circle orchestra, Barbatuques; throat singers, Celina Kalluk and Lucie Idlout; and the world’s most famous clown/hambone artist, Derique McGee.
It’s truly something you’ve never seen—or head—before.
The snapping and clapping begins at 7:30 p.m as part of Lincoln Center’s Out of Doors series. More information can be found here.