Instruments both ancient
and fanciful provide the live soundtrack
of cheery music of the season.
A variety of puppets help play the music, or dance and covort
to it.
Doing both at the same time is music-puppetician Grego.
Mazja, the
world's smallest one-man-band,
has a tiny harp, cymbals, violin, and panpipes.
Her body is a 33-stringed psaltery, truly the gentle sound of
the magic time.
A tap-dancing reindeer makes provides lighter, spunkier
moments.
Mocha, the little gibbon ape, puts some mischief into the mix.
And we're just getting started here.
Flutes, percussion, harmonicas, plucked and bowed strings,
It all opens like a series of brightly wrapped presents,
and they're all for you.
A 90-second peek inside the stocking
And aside from the stage show, there's this guy...