Children's Classic Concerts

Crash Bang Wallop, the percussion-centered children's concert, was a huge, ahem, hit with the young crowd last Saturday at the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow. The sound of a range of drums - from handheld ones to a gigantic Odaiko drum that took up the back half of the stage - reverberated through children's tiny torsos and parents' heads.

Owen Gunnell and Oliver Cox, two young guys with impressive musical abilities, lit up children's faces with their cool, enthusiastic charisma.

With acts that included Mugenkyo's fusion taiko drumming to Albannach's edgy Celtic music, the audience was thrilled by the music.

So much so that a pair of feisty boys sitting next to me used their shaker eggs, tambourines and their hands to rock and air-drum along with the music nonstop for an hour. If you can generate that sort of focused enthusiasm from a child, it's a concert worth attending.

- Helen I. Hwang

www.childrensclassicconcerts.co.uk

Upcoming Children's Classic Concert is The Wow Factor.
Saturday, 14 March, Dundee Caird Hall, 3 p.m.
Saturday, 25 April, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 3 p.m.
Sunday, 26 April, Stirling Macrobert Centre, 3 p.m.