Sellwood Park - You know it must be summertime when Lenny Carpenter announces his annual free concert in the park featuring the Bandura. Since 2004, Carpenter has given a free show in the Sellwood Park every August 1st."I think people enjoy hearing the Bandura," stated Carpenter of the unusual instrument, which has been described as sounding like a cross between a cymbalom and a Gravikord. "It's edgier than the traditional lute, yet maintains the tranquility that has made harps so popular among Baroque enthusiasts."
Carpenter promises to play crowd favorites including "Types of trees", "Mystical Prism" and "Would you like to see my basement." He says he may even revisit "Sands of Inscriptions", his 38 minute ode to the famous voyage made by the Celts to Iberia to reclaim the Tartessian inscriptions. The Celts fought the Carthaginians using forms of dance art and song poems to the cloud spirit.
"The history is so rich and exciting of that era," says Carpenter. "People literally had to dance fight to claim their rightful property. Only the Bandura can make you feel what the pressure must of been like."
The concert starts at 4 p.m. on the east side of Sellwood Park. It will last until Carpenter's Bandura gets stolen by teenage punk hipsters and thrown into the Willamette River, another tradition.
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