We met Mike Burritt in the woods. We never meet people in the woods. There is hardly anyone in the woods anymore. Mike had just moved to our area and he and his wife were walking their two dogs on a path they were taking for the first time. We showed them a loop they could do but the hills were a bit much for them. We finished our hike with tour of their place and Mike played a marimba solo for us.
He told us then about a performance he was doing at Kilbourn Hall for the Fringe Fest and we marked our calendars. Mike is one of the world’s leading percussion soloists. He performed an amazing piece on three tambourines last night, playing one with his foot, he did a a duet with John Beck, the former head of the Eastman percussion department, and played three original numbers on his signature marimba, accompanying his daughter reading her poetry.
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