:): Viva la Vida

You thought you knew Coldplay.

But you haven't heard Viva la Vida until you've hear it on a

6-String

Electrical violin

By world renowned violinist

Tracy Silverman.

WOW.

But I digress.

One of our Young Women Advisers is a Professor at Delta College and

she got us tickets to the Stockton Symphony concert featuring Tracy Silverman.

So we gathered all the youth (and by all I mean the 2 that showed up.

out of the 8 that rsvp'd) and headed over to the theater.

It was one of the best performances I've seen, and I wish he'd just played the entire time.

Let me tell you a little of what I learned about Tracy Silverman.

At 16 he started attending Chicago Music College.

He went to Julliard and was named a Distinguished Alumni.

There was no such thing as a 6 string violin..

Till he made one.

He also figured out a new way to use the bow.

And he plays a fretted violin.

(I didn't even know those existed.)

He does this thing where as he's playing live, he records himself

for like 12 measures and sets it to play on a loop.

Multiple times.

So it sounds like there are 4 or 5 of him playing.

Ah-maz-ing.

Here is a totally awesome video of him playing Led Zeppelin. Check it.

:)