Including a steel-drum performance and Caribbean dance performers.
Yamato, Japanese drum performance.
His drum performance that night brought compliments from other campers' parents.
For those with late reservations, there will be a traditional drumming performance at midnight by Taiko Masala.
(He first met Mr. Roach many years ago at the jazz tent, during a mesmerizing solo drum performance).
If the automated warning had been delivered — amid the growl of a downtown train nearby and a steel drum performance at the platform's northern end — few riders would have known.
On the South Lawn on Tuesday morning, he reviewed the troops, observed a Colonial fife-and-drum performance, and received a 19-gun salute, two shots shy of those given a head of state.
The festival, held in conjunction with the museum's show "Shaped by the Wind: Kites," will also offer a taiko drum performance, a catch-the-kite's-tail contest and indoor workshops.
Music and poetry created and performed by MIT students and faculty featured prominently in the two-hour gathering, which opened with a rousing drumming performance by the Rambax MIT Senegalese Drum Ensemble, led by lecturer Lamine Touré and associate professor Patricia Tang, as a procession of MIT's administrators, faculty, staff, alumni and students entered the hall in full academic regalia.
And yet, the noises seemed to fade into the background, overwhelmed by the beep of a pedestrian signal for people who cannot see well, the whistles of a man trying to hail a cab, a steel drum performance rising through a grate from a subway station and a spirited conversation between two rival sidewalk newspaper vendors about the industry's lagging sales.
