Sticks and Tones Music

A great team!

A new record for this tour: 18 minutes unload time into the Highlands Center! Special thanks to Dan Riordan, Henry Flurry, plus a shy friend, and Dan’s pups who supervised everything! (Our schedule kept a couple of other kind volunteers from joining us, but our gratitude goes out to them for their willingness to help, too!) Thank you so much for the help and the fun!

Tickets are almost sold out and only available at the door now. See you today for concerts at 2:00 and 7:00, Prescott! (At Highlands Center for Natural History)

Thinking about how lucky I am that Sedona is my office for the next few days!! Tomorrow at 7pm at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre! (Same comfy, intimate theater where the Sedona International Film Festival & Theatres Sedona International Film Festival & Theatres takes place!)

manos - Arizona Philharmonic Saturday, May 23, 2026 Highlands Center for Natural History — Kiwanis Amphitheater 1375 S Walker St., Prescott, AZ 86303

The weather will be a perfect companion to the range of beautiful American music manos percussion will be performing! Tickets are selling fast. Yay!

🥁 37 Instruments. 3 Virtuosos. 1 Unforgettable Night.

Get ready to experience classical percussion like you’ve never heard it before. This Saturday, May 23, AZ Phil’s Chamber Music Series proudly presents manos percussion: Quarter Millennium Celebration for two exclusive performances at 2 PM and 7 PM!

Featuring AZ Phil’s very own principal timpanist Maria Flurry, alongside the incredible Bensen Kwan and Joshua Ferrell, this dynamic trio will take over the Kiwanis Amphitheater at the Highlands Center for Natural History.

Here’s what to expect:

🌍 A musical journey celebrating America’s 250th year—blending European classical roots, rich Afro-Caribbean rhythms, jazz, and contemporary voices.
🎶 37 instruments sharing one stage.
🎧 Mind-blowing sonic textures, from traditional gongs and glockenspiels to water percussion and steel pans.

Come for the rhythm, stay for the magic under the Arizona sky.

📅 When: Saturday, May 23 | 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM
📍 Where: Highlands Center for Natural History, Kiwanis Amphitheater
🎟️ Tickets: $35

Save your seats now at https://azphil.org/event/manos-percussion-quarter-millennium-celebration-2/

Arizona Philharmonic, thank you for putting up such a great page about manos Percussion on your website: AZPhil.org/manos!

manos - Arizona Philharmonic Saturday, May 23, 2026 Highlands Center for Natural History — Kiwanis Amphitheater 1375 S Walker St., Prescott, AZ 86303

Thank you, BSP!

Henry and I are proud to announce: our summer reading program is ready for unveiling!

…A little background:

The American Library Association choses a summer reading theme every year. For 2026, the theme is based on ever-popular topics: dinosaurs, paleontology, and archaeology. In the spirit of discovery, this summer’s ALA theme is:
“Unearth a Story”.

This inspired Henry and me to create, “THE LOST SONG OF THE SABERTOOTH”!

Of course, Summer Readers will become part of a “dig-crew",
using rhythm, melody, and sound effects to piece together the
mysterious “Lost Song of the Sabertooth”. This epic program mixes fun facts about fossils, excavation, and
the layers of time with the thrill of playing unusual
percussion instruments.

If you like the sound of that, please join us! Performances will be posted on SticksAndTones.com. If you happen to share the flyer with your friendly library or school, you will increase the odds that we will play in your vicinity. ;-)

Thank you, Everyone, for your continued support of and interest in Sticks and Tones and general Flurry shenanigans!

¡Feliz año nuevo!

Flurry history tonight! Juniper (our fabulous first-born) and I perfrom together for the FIRST TIME at Acker NIght!
7:00-7:30 at Theodore’s Fine Foods (the bagel place across from Spring Hill Suites)