The Huffington Post's "Inside The Plan To Transform New Orleans Into A Giant Musical Playground" was written on October 3rd, 2013 by Priscilla Frank. It was based upon a headline sure to turn heads.
The ramshackle of an old run-down New Orleans town is transformed by a zealous group of street muscicians. The Dithyrambalina is a 150-year old village transfigured into a giant musical playground by creating musical instruments out of the structures of the cottage houses. Stairs became pipe organs while floorboards became amplifiers. The streets glow and are enchanted with lanterns, as the whole town is awaken with music and light. Many describe this unique place as a village that “popped right out of an urban fairytale”. One can even consider it a real-life Disney movie. However, it is not the storybooks that have brought this town back to life, it is the people who go to it. The article states that “throughout its life, the village welcomed 15,000 visitors and 500 students to practice and study musical arts over there”. So far, major art guilds like the Mardi Gras Indian Tribe and the New Orleans Master Crafts are partnering up with the village.
The ramshackle of an old run-down New Orleans town is transformed by a zealous group of street muscicians. The Dithyrambalina is a 150-year old village transfigured into a giant musical playground by creating musical instruments out of the structures of the cottage houses. Stairs became pipe organs while floorboards became amplifiers. The streets glow and are enchanted with lanterns, as the whole town is awaken with music and light. Many describe this unique place as a village that “popped right out of an urban fairytale”. One can even consider it a real-life Disney movie. However, it is not the storybooks that have brought this town back to life, it is the people who go to it. The article states that “throughout its life, the village welcomed 15,000 visitors and 500 students to practice and study musical arts over there”. So far, major art guilds like the Mardi Gras Indian Tribe and the New Orleans Master Crafts are partnering up with the village.
"The most important thing to us is the idea that old, run-down looking things still have value," the Dithyrambalina co-founder Jay Pennington explains. "And that the value that they have is in the stories that they carry. And those stories can be brought to life through music. Giving life to architecture, so that people can live with it, experience it, and learn what there is to learn from what's left behind."
It is innovative minds like Jay Pennington who do not exist in their surrounding world, but whom create it. Surely the Dithyrambalina will prosper into a symphonic city, in which a musical revolution will begin.
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