Young musicians from South America are going from the slums to the biggest stages of classical music by turning trash into melody. The group is tuning up for a concert in the Valley this summer.

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 ...

OMAHA - Tavionne Turner grabbed a pair of chopsticks and began banging on junk. His instrument was a mishmash of scrap - cardboard tubes, old metal cans, string, duct tape, feathers and beads - ...

The Orquesta de Intstrumentos Reciclados de Cateura, or Recycled Orchestra, the Cateura, Paraguay-founded youth orchestra who perform with instruments made from recycled materials, performed at the ...