Greg Jukes visited our facility today to check out some of our newest products.
Greg recently moved to Boston with his trio, The Fourth Wall Ensemble, from Indianapolis. The Fourth Wall is a self described "Hybrid Arts" ensemble, mixing theater, music and more. Check out this video of Onomatopoeia by Ramon Castillo. It is a clever work that incorporates percussive sounds and the human voice in an unusual way.
Chalk up another great PASIC success for us! During the three days in Indy many percussive celebrities came to see us; Alan Abel, John Beck, Bob Becker, Rob Knopper, Arnie Lang, Mike Rosen, Gordon Stout, Casey Cangelosi and Bill Moersch, all stopped by the booth. Dame Evelyn Glennie came to thank us for her musical anvils. She raved about their sound, sustain and projection. The Cleveland Orchestra's Rich Weiner flipped when he heard our Bantamweight tambourines. "Perfect for soft playing", was his comment. Jason Aldean's drummer, Rich Redmond, asked for one of our new Studio Pro model tambourines. He said that they are used on many of Nashville's top records these days! Multi-talented percussionist Mark Shelton also raved about the...
As our tagline states, Grover Pro products are found in the world's finest concert halls being played by the world's finest percussionists! Here are pics of our products recently being used by two of our top professionals.
From Phillip O'Banion - Philadelphia Orchestra
From Aaron Ragsdale - South Dakota Symphony
Our good friend, Bobby Lopez, has written Conversation for two tambourines, a fun duet for concert tambourines that showcases techniques (both commonplace and otherwise) often found in orchestral tambourine playing. The piece is a running dialog between the two players as they execute articulated grace notes, pianissimo rolls, thumb rolls, and a variety of articulations. Conversation brings to the forefront the complexity, control, and variety of techniques that are required to play this instrument well.
Published by Tapspace, this piece comes with a full, bound score and includes a CD-Rom containing a reference video and all individual parts available for printing.
Grover Pro Products are used world-wide in a myriad of performance venues including on the field! This summer, both the Santa Clara Vanguard and the Bluecoats are playing our products while touring with the DCI Tour of Champions.
