Recycled Percussion

America’s Got Talent favorites mix music and spectacle like nothing experienced before

Junk rock! It’s a ten-year overnight sensation.

Inspired by New York street musicians banging out intricate rhythms on used pickle buckets, Justin Spencer decided to take things one step further, dreaming up Recycled Percussion and emptying the kitchen cabinets of his Goffstown, New Hampshire homestead for a pot banging, pan clanging stint at his high school talent show.

Junk rock was born, and Spencer and his Recycled crew added power tools, aluminum ladders, old car parts, oxygen tanks and shredding electric guitar to the mix, becoming a hit on college campuses, with corporate events and at halftime extravaganzas all over the country. In 2009, Recycled Percussion broke worldwide with a series of appearances on America’s Got Talent that still racks up hits on YouTube.

Recycled Percussion is at Proctors, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 20. Tickets, $20-$45, are available at the Box Office at Proctors, 432 State Street, Schenectady; by phone at 518.346.6204; and online at proctors.org.

At this point, the group—featured on the cover of USA Today and called “Flat out bad ass” by Las Vegas Journal—has brought its ethos and its thunder to 15 countries, playing over 4000 shows while landing high profile gigs on Last Call with Carson Daly, The Today Show, China’s Got Talent and the Latin Grammy Awards.

Recycled Percussion’s brilliant, kinetic performances are high-energy events, exploding with color and sound, challenging the audience to participate onstage and off. Nothing you have experienced before will prepare you for Recycled Percussion!

Recycled Percussion at Proctors is sponsored by FAM Funds Family Series.