Searching for a unique live show amid the tiresome ubiquity of tight black jeans and ironic posturing? You’re in luck, kid. Inspired by the The Vegetable Orchestra, students at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University will be performing entirely with vegetables as instruments.
Set to play at the ungodly hour of 11 a.m., this archipelago of randomness, brilliance and aggressive oddness–reminiscent of Yoko Ono during her “Grapefruit” phase–is as refreshing a break from the current scene as the first balmy day of spring.
The Long Island Vegetable Orchestra plays on “instruments” completely made of vegetables. There’s the eggplant clapper, hollowed out carrot flutes, turnip bongos, bell pepper trumpets and leek violins. The weirdest part? It’s actually pretty awesome.
If you can’t bear to roll out of bed before noon for a show, check out the original Viennese band, in all of their glory, below.
TOPICS: Eat to the Beat, Kathleen Willcox