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SXSW Review: Samulnori drummers
Foot traffic along Sixth Street at Trinity and later Neches around 9:30 p.m. slowed to a crawl or stopped altogether Thursday as crowds whipped out their cellphone cameras and watched as a group of Samulnori percussion musicians showed their stuff.
Playing four different instruments — from large side-saddle drums to small frying pan-like cymbals — the group of 15 Asian-American students, most of them University of Texas students, played the Korean-based music in round, marching formations while wearing red, white, blue and yellow robe-like uniforms.
The shows were brief at around 10 minutes each, but were an out-of-nowhere surprise for the crowds milling about and heading to their ultimate destinations for the night.
Definitely one of those anything-can-happen South By Southwest moments that keep people at home and from far away talking after the music has stopped.
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