Keyboard percussion
Find melody in motion.
Meet marimbas, vibraphones, and other keyboard instruments. Learn how mallet choice, movement, and touch shape the color of a musical line.
A hands-on experience from NOVA Performing Arts
Percussion
Playground
Don’t just watch the ensemble. Step into it.
Move through guided percussion stations, try the instruments, learn a musical part, and discover what happens when the room becomes one ensemble.
Dates and location are being planned.
An ensemble you can enter
Hear it from the inside.
Percussion Playground is an immersive event that brings people inside the sound and structure of a percussion ensemble. Experienced performers and educators will guide each station, giving you room to explore before everyone comes together.
All that is needed is curiosity. No musical experience is required.
Move through the sound
Every instrument has a place in the whole.
Drums, cymbals, and pulse
Feel how rhythm holds the room together.
Explore the instruments that give an ensemble its momentum, impact, and texture. Build a part with guidance, then hear how it changes when the other voices enter.
How it unfolds
From first sound to shared performance.
Arrive
Meet the performers and see how the experience will move.
Explore
Rotate through guided stations and try a range of instruments.
Build
Learn a short musical part and hear it join the room.
Connect
Stay with the music, the people, and the ideas behind it.
Made for the curious
You do not need to be a percussionist to belong here.
Percussion Playground welcomes music lovers, educators, families, supporters, and anyone who has wondered what it feels like to stand inside an ensemble. Participate at your own comfort level and let experienced guides take care of the rest.
Behind every ensemble
The experience opens a wider view.
Percussion Playground makes visible what a strong percussion program requires: skilled teaching, instruments, rehearsal space, time, and a community willing to create opportunity.
It also offers a glimpse of what sustained access to those resources can mean for young musicians through NOVA 8 Percussion.
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