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Third Coast Percussion: Tiny Desk Concert

Watch the Chicago-based ensemble conjure otherworldly sounds from steel pipes, tuned cowbells and a bowl that sings.
Third Coast Percussion performs a Tiny Desk Concert on April 27, 2018 (Claire Harbage/NPR).

Back at the beginning of time, the human voice was the very first instrument. Probably close in second place were folks banging on stuff – in other words, percussionists. The quartet of gentlemen who form the Chicago-based Third

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