Small Space Shows (Living Room, Basement, Board Room, Class Room)

Junkyard Symphony's Birthday Special: (1 performer) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) Done the clown and magician thing? Looking for something different yet awesome? This time hire a drummer! Junkyard Symphony's Birthday Special is an hour of fun rhythm games and drumming that the kids will love. Each child goes home with a smile and a loot bag containing Junkyard Symphony's new CD and coloring book. The neighborhood kids will think you are cool! Duration: 60 minutes. (Maximum 10 participants, ages 6 and up, Ottawa area only.) Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Rock Towers: (1 performer) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny, Don) Done the pictionary and charades thing? Looking for something different yet totally awesome? Rock Towers is the coolest, most fun and biggest board game you will ever play. Five feet long and four feet tall, made completely from discarded wood and ordinary rocks, Rock Towers will make your party be the party that everyone remembers. Your Rock Towers host will stay through out the game to facilitate and get the party rocking! Duration: (1 game. Ages 16 and up. Max 30 players) Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Ground Level Shows (School Gym, Community Center Hall, Outdoor Areas)

Junkyard Symphony's Junkyard Jonny Show: (1 performer) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) Junkyard Jonny demonstrates his incredible skills as a drummer, juggler, comedian, clown, acrobat and environmentalist using reused instruments and props that he has created from the Junkyard. Kids love to join in the funk and jam along with Jonny on the junk. Jonny is a hit with kids of all ages! This show is perfect for day cares, day camps, Cubs and Brownies, birthday parties, children's museums and community events. Duration: 40 minutes. Maximum 200 participants. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Super Street Show: (2 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leaders: Jonny) Junkyard Symphony rocks the streets in a busker style performance, with awesome antics, Junkyard Jokes, terrific tricks, primal percussion and of course plenty of participation. With their "GOT2DRUM" license plate hanging from their set up, Junkyard Symphony demonstrates how rhythm is truly infectious! This show is perfect for busker festivals, street festivals, block parties, backyard parties, museums, community events. Duration: 40 minutes. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Junkyard Jam: (2 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leaders: Jonny, Ross, Don) Junkyard Symphony's most popular show, the Junkyard Jam is radical rhythms on rubbish. Junkyard Symphony jams with the audience along to the beat of the junk. The only language spoken is the language of rhythm. Volunteers get to drum on buckets, dance the Macarena, shake shakers, do the limbo and have a ball! This show is suitable for festivals ground level and especially main stage, school BBQ's, bar mitzvahs, weddings, block parties, sport events, museums, fall fairs. Duration: 50 minutes. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Recycle Rock: (2 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) In a workshop/show style, Junkyard Symphony teaches the basics of rhythm and recycling. Volunteers learn about the four R’s of waste reduction, the basics of rhythm as they bang on buckets, honk on horns, play with plunger poms, dance on a disco stage, and ultimately discover that rhythm is truly a universal language. This show is great for corporate and community events, schools, day camps, family reunions. Duration: 60 minutes. Maximum 350 participants. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Juggler's Jam: (2 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) Junkyard Symphony's Juggler's Jam features two circus artists portraying the art of juggling using junk for props. Continuing with the rhythm and recycling theme, the Juggler's Jam demonstrates how rhythm is essential in an activity like juggling, which is also an important skill for co-ordination development, something that benefits all disciplines. The Juggler's Jam show is suitable for schools, festivals, theatres, corporate and community events. Duration 60 minutes. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Rudolph Rock: (2 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) It's not Christmas unless you've heard Jingle Bells on junk. Junkyard Jonny demonstrates his special steel drum skills with songs like God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman and of course the ever popular Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Volunteers get to Jam along with Junkyard Symphony and special guest Rudolph the Red Nose Junk deer. Great for Christmas parties. Duration: 60 minutes. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Terrific Trio!: (3 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) Following in the style of the Junkyard Jam, but just a little bit longer, a sight more to see, and a wee bit wackier, the Terrific Trio promises to portray a plethora of pretty plunger passing , a potpourri of people participation, and plentiful portions of powerful percussive pieces. If you have an event that calls for a crazy, wacky, fun and talented show, then the Terrific Trio is what you are looking for. This show is great just about anywhere actually. Duration: 60 minutes. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Drum Corps: (10-20 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Phil) "Corps" is the French word for "body". In Junkyard Symphony's Drum Corps, there are lots of bodies, with lots of drums on the bodies, making lots of noise for everybody, and there is nobody who won't enjoy it. This show is perfect when you need to create a fun racket to rev up the audience. Junkyard Symphony's Drum Corps is mobile so it is perfect for sports games, parades, dances, celebrations and festivals. Duration: 20 min or "as needed". Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Main Stage Shows (Theatre Stage, School Stage, Festival Stage)

Junkyard Symphony's Super Stage Show!: (2 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny, Don) Geared for fairs and festivals, Junkyard Symphony's Super Stage Show features all of their best rhtyhms, tricks and gags. Using their mini trampoline as a means of quickly jumping on and off the stage, Junkyard Symphony easily involves the audience in a fun interactive show for all ages. The Super Stage show is suitable for any stage environment and works great in music festivals of all styles. Duration: 50 minutes Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Garbage and Guitar! (3 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) In this show, Junkyard Symphony's Junkyard Jam is joined by a guitarist playing instrumental new age music along to the rhythm of the junk. The guitar gives the show a classier flavour, more ambience and a little less need for audience participation if the situation calls for something where audience would prefer to just sit back and watch. However audience participation can always be added as needed. This show is great for corporate and music events. Duration: 50 minutes. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Recycled Circus: (4 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) Junkyard Symphony's newest exciting show creates a wonderful spectacle that mirrors Stomp and Cirque de Soleil. Using their largest junk set up, this quartet of amazing drummers, jugglers and acrobats demonstrate the wonderful wonders of rhythm and circus arts through junk drumming, jug juggling, ladder balancing, club swinging, cup stacking, trampoline jumping, all to the beat of the junk. There is an environmental message too, to Reduce Reuse Recycle and Rock! Of course there is always lots of crowd participation. Volunteers will learn how to drum, go-go dance, and play the spoons. This is a spectacular show that will blow your mind! Junkyard Symphony's Recycled Circus is suitable for festivals, corporate parties, theatres, high schools. Duration: 60 minutes. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Show Combos (Save money when you book in bulk!)

Juankyard Symphony's Junk Pack: (2 performers)(Homebase: Ottawa) (leader: Jonny) Comprising of a 60 min Recycle Rock show and a 2hr rhythm and recycling workshop, the Junk Pack will fill the whole day with awesome activities, great learning, and great fun, all centered around the theme of rhythm and recycling. If you have the time and were planning on having a show anyway, you might as well get the full mileage out of the junk and add in a workshop as well for not much extra cost. This package is great for schools all levels, and day camps. In the workshop students learn the importance of rhythm in music and life. In a drum circle fashion using reused materials for percussion instruments, Junkyard Symphony teaches the basics of rhythm such as tempo, beat, and dynamics. They also cover the values of quarter notes, eight notes, half notes and whole notes and the students learn a series of syncopated rhythms. Add in a cheer box and a few rhythmic games and the workshop becomes a "Stomp" for students! As well as learning the basics of rhtyhm, students will learn how to make a junk drum from reused materails such as plastic water bottles and tin cans. The importance of recyling and the Four R's, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rock is covered while students learn how to have fun while saving the earth. Here are the materials that students will need to bring: 2 small plastic water or pop bottles (empty and dry) 2 small tin soup cans (empty and dry) 2 chopsticks or unsharpend pencils Colour markers or pencil crayons 1/2 cup of rice, beans or macaronni Lastly, students from grade 6 and up will also get to play Junkyard Symphony's ever popular game "Rhythm Ball." A sport that mixes music with physical activity. They'll love this. Click Here for More Info on Rhtyhm Ball. Duration: 60 min show, 2hr workshop. Max: 350 partipants for the show, and max 30 for the workshop. Click Here for More Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Festival Extravaganza!: (2 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) Geared for fairs and festivals, Junkyard Symphony's Festival Extravaganza is a plentiful performance package of fantastic festive fun. You've seen what Stomp can do, but stand back because Junkyard Symphony pulls out all the stops for this one. For this package, Junkyard Symphony combines two Super Stage Shows and two ground level rhythm workshops (where particpants get to try out our drums) over the course of two days, giving you the best bang for your buck! This package is great for fairs and festivals. Duration: 2 Workshops, 60 minutes each. 2 Shows 50 minutes each. 220 minutes total. Click Here for more Info on this Show.

Junkyard Symphony's Rock Pack!: (2 performers) (Home-base: Ottawa, Canada) (leader: Jonny) Are you ready to Rock, Junkyard Symphony style? Receive a Rock Towers show for half price when you book one of Junkyard Symphony's most popular shows, Recycle Rock. This package is great for schools. You can book a Recycle Rock show for the kids during the day, then later that evening or another evening the teachers can come out to play and enjoy a rocking game of Rock Towers. This is a deal that you just can't pass up! Duration: Recycle Rock 60 min, Rock Towers, 2hrs.

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