The Thai Elephant Orchestra is, remarkably, just what it sounds like. At a conservation center in Thailand, made for former work animals with nowhere to go, a group of elephants has been assembled and ...

LAMPANG, Thailand — What do you do with an out-of-work elephant? If you’re Richard Lair, you teach it to play music. It’s no joke. With Phangkhwat on the gong and Luuk Kob on the one-stringed diddley ...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Reuters Life!) - The Thai Elephant Orchestra is about to release a third CD and, like all real artists, the world's only non-human musical ensemble doesn't give a thump about the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Dave Soldier is a composer/performer, and a scientist in his day job as ...

The 2011 Grammy Awards are over. Among the nominees, many and various genres of music were represented, often via recordings on small independent labels. In the wake of Arcade Fire's album-of-the-year ...

Lampang, Thailand - Richard Lair, aka Professor Elephant, gets a lot of kidding these days about tickling the ivories, blowing one's horn and trying to become an Arturo Tuskanini. That's not ...

What do you get if you give musical instruments to a group of elephants? Just a loud noise, or an orchestra? One elephant ensemble in Thailand demonstrates - according to its creators - that animals ...

Dave Soldier talks about The Thai Elephant Orchestra that he helped set up with Richard Lair at a conservation centre in northern Thailand. They have built 22 giant instruments, all of which are ...

It was a magical and historic night for indie-rock. For the first time in more than a decade, the founding members of the widely adored and influential Elephant 6 Collective, including Robert ...