Young musicians from South America are going from the slums to the biggest stages of classical music by turning trash into melody. The group is tuning up for a concert in the Valley this summer.

The members of Paraguay’s Cateura Orchestra of Recycled Instruments are no older than 20 years of age but these inventive musicians make their own instruments out of solid waste including cellos, ...

The musicians picked up some new fans recently when they played their third Shred Stock in the parking lot at Van Wezel ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — Miami-Dade County generates more than 5 million tons of waste every year. That’s nearly double the national average. And we’re not alone, as many parts of the world are ...

Ken Butler doesn’t hoard, he creates. The 70-year-old musician transforms trash and unexpected objects from his home -- such ...

Noelia Rios, 12, tunes her guitar made of recycled materials as she practices with “The Orchestra of Instruments Recycled From Cateura” in Cateura, a vast landfill outside Paraguay’s capital of ...

Taiwanese residents holding plastic bags of rubbish stand on a footpath as a yellow garbage truck playing classical music over a loudspeaker pulls up. For decades, the tinkling of Beethoven's "Fur ...

Taiwan's musical garbage trucks have been an almost daily feature of life on the island since the 1960s For the elderly, taking out the trash has become a social event and many arrive early to sit and ...