Music speaks in many ways: melody, tone, timbre resonance, rhythm, instrumentation, and word -- but what if you do not understand the words being sung? Dan Storper noticed that people were responding to, and asking about, the music from Latin America and other parts of the world which he played to enhance the atmosphere in his clothing and handcraft stores.

By birth year I am technically a millennial, but sometimes I feel a little more Generation X. Perhaps it’s the stigma that millennials love technology, which I do –I’d cry if my laptop crashed before I remembered to back it up (and not to the cloud because ‘nobody understands the cloud’)- but that doesn’t mean I love all advancements of technology, and sometimes want to be stubborn toward them. 

A young girl who learned music from from medieval to Poulenc to Paul Winter in the choir at a great cathedral, a boy who loved jumping on his parents' bed, not so much for the love of jumping as for the love of the sounds the springs made, another boy who was drawn to the sound of the bagpipes and knew he had to learn to play them, and a boy who found a dusty old guitar and knew he had to figure it out: Rani Arbo, Scott Kessel, Andrew Kinsey, and Anand Nayak began early on their musical paths.