Music from Trash

• Anything is possible.
• Landfill Harmonic
• Paraguay
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Webpage and Facebook
• Bio: The world sends us garbage... We send back music. Help bring the orchestra on a worldwide tour of music & inspiration: http://kck.st/110W8j2

Banging Buckets Beautifully

• Phil in Liverpool doing his thing. Thank you.
• Phil Bondy
• video United Kingdom/Phil United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Facebook
• Bio: In order to further promote himself as a drummer, a few years ago Phil picked up the timeless art of street performing. Plastic five gallon buckets are his weapon of choice when taking music to the streets in high hopes of showcasing his skill to anyone who walks by while spreading the love of music and beautifying an otherwise ordinary street corner. Skillfully recycling garbage into beats.

Fast & Furious Guitar Player

• The beard makes him faster.
• Performer unknown. Anybody?
• Location unknown.
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel

Street Musician - Unique & Awesome Guitar Method

• Great example of alternative method of guitar playing.
• Johnnie Lin
• Australia
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel

Worlds Fastest Piano Juggler

• Playing the piano while juggling his balls.
• Dan Menendez
• Worldwide
• Contact/Source: Website
• Bio: Dan appears in venues all over the world, performing at professional sporting events, banquets, trade shows and concerts. In 2001 he won the Daidogei World Cup in Japan, an international entertainment competition. Dan has flown over two million miles performing as "The Piano Juggler."

Shovelman Strumming Shovel Guitar

• Isaac playing slide guitar made out of a shovel.
• Isaac Frankle
  
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Facebook
• Bio: Shovelman is a junkyard beatnik, a shovel guitar wielding surrealist folk superhero. Armed with a collection of pawnshop effects pedals and an old barn-shovel turned slide-guitar, Shovelman plays ol' fashioned folktronica-grooves looped straight out of the ground. The sounds of Mississippi delta blues from the electro-psychedelic future, collide with the antiquated rubble of lyrical one-man-band hoboetry. Shovelman has become infamous on the west coast festival circuit (Lightning in a Bottle, Health and Harmony, Earthdance and The Oregon Country Fair) opening for bands that include Primus, Beats Antique and the Yard Dogs Road Show.

This Is One Crazy, and Cool, Voice

• Vitas hits some high notes, really high notes. Super high notes. Just watch.
• Vitas
• Russia
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: Known for his high falsetto voice and a vocal range of 5 octaves, he has been given the nickname "Prince of the Dolphin Voice" in China. His music is often difficult to categorize, incorporating elements of techno, dance, classical, jazz, and folk music. His 2000 song, "Opera No. 2" ("Opera #2"; released as a single in 2001) has been forwarded frequently via the Internet, which accounts for much of his worldwide recognition. CONTINUE ON WIKIPEDIA

Mayumana Makes Music With The Furniture

• A bit of theatre, a bit of percussion, a bit of comedy, a whole lot of cool.
• Mayumana
• Isreal/Worldwide
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website and Facebook
• Bio: "It is not easy to classify the show: music, dance, theatre, percussion, wit…. We being ourselves and basically everything goes. Creativity and energy are our main topic. These are some of the ingredients offered on stage. "

Bluegrass Boy Band Brings Bliss

• A boy band that actually plays instruments, and plays them really well.
• Sleepy Man Banjo BoysB - Tommy, Robbie, & Jonny Mizzone
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• Bio: Ten year-old banjo picker Jonny Mizzone along with his brothers Robbie (13) on fiddle, and Tommy (15) on guitar, are The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. Though their combined age is younger than music’s Hip-Hop era, it’s the 1950’s music of Flatt & Scruggs & The Stanley Brothers that inspires them. The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys are the result of brotherly-love, faith in God, and a passion for inspiring others with their musical gifts. CONTINUE

Gorgeous Glass Harp Harmonies

• Glass Harp performance of Sugar Plum Fairy by P.Tchaikovsky.
• GlassDuo
• Poland
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• Bio: Little did the musicians know, but when their fingertips generated sound by touching those glass rims for the first time, it was what would turn out to be the beginning of a long and earnest adventure. These two musicians, players of the traditional instruments the violin and the trumpet, could not have suspected the path that lay before them. They began to master the glass harp, amazed by its technical and expressional possibilities. CONTINUE

Children Channel Guitar Gods

• Pickin' & Grinnin'.
• Performers unknown.
• North Korea
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel

Human Voice Guitar Solo

• Astonishing impressions of celebrities and instruments.
• Michaël Grégorio
• France
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: French singer with astonishing range of vocal abilities, see more HERE.

Handpan Music

• Fusing world music and melodic indie rock with his pioneering approach to the Handpan.
• Dante Bucci
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Dante's Web
• Bio: He is a fixture in the Philly indie music scene and one of the most-recognized Handpan players in the world, thanks to a constantly-expanding list of subscribers and over 9 million views on his YouTube channel. 

Sweet Strumming Style

• African woman playing guitar in a unique and non-traditional manner.
• Artist unknown.
• Africa
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel

Whipping Whips While Blowing Bluegrass

• Adam shows why he is the harmonica humming whipper snapper.
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• Bio: Whip cracker, harmonica enthusiast and holder of 9 Guinness World Record for whip events.

Bagpipe Playing Darth Vader Riding A Unicycle

• Just like the title says.
• Unknown, anybody?
• Location unknown.
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: Some dude with a Vader costume who can ride a unicycle and play the bagpipes.

"Catching Fire" - Ronald Jenkees

• Just gotta include The Great Ronald Jenkees.
• Ronald Jenkees
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel and Website
• Bio: An American composer and musician, best known for his YouTube keyboard performances, coverage on G4's Attack of the Show!, and an appearance in Paste Magazine. His YouTube videos have been viewed over 60,000,000 times.

"Sexy and I Know It" - Unique Arrangement

• Not so quirky, but ....damn.
• Noah
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: I'm a 19 year old singer/songwriter from South Carolina. I love all kinds of music but most of what I write is pretty organic. I'm not into a lot of effects and tricks. Just good melodies and lyrics with something to say.

Fantastic Fotoplayer Follies

• Playing the crazy piano thingy also known as a fotoplayer circa 1926.
• Joe Rinaudo
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: Joe's passion is this 1926 Fotoplayer, which uses music rolls like those for player pianos to provide music and sound effects to silent films. Joe spent thousands of hours restoring his Fotoplayer. CONTINUE

The Human Drum Kit

• "Tummy Talk" - no humans were harmed in the making of this video.
• Drummers: Matt Nickle (composer), Liahona Seumanu, Tyrell Shepherd. Drum: Niu Luamanuvae
• United States
• Contact/Source: YouTube Channel
• Bio: These percussionists have been drumming together from the day they started middle school band and continued to drum in college in the university drum-line and percussion ensembles. From pots and pans, to pens and pencils, to tapping on your desk at work. These drummers take things to the next level by playing on a different kind of instrument--the human body.