This is hilarious, hits a little close to home...
THE children whispering and fidgeting in front of the stage at Union
Hall in Park Slope, Brooklyn, looked like any kids awaiting, say, a
storyteller. Then Zora Sicher and Hugo Orozco, the two 11-year-olds who
make up the band Magnolia, climbed onstage and broke into a
hard-driving original song called “Volume.” It was clear this was not
quiet time.
“Wooooo!” a dreadlocked woman shouted from the back of the room, where a crowd of adults, many in vintage concert T-shirts and cardigans, looking like kids themselves, cheered and sipped bloody marys.
For this set of performers and audience members, indie rock is as familiar as a lullaby. “We like punk, classic rock, metal, riot grrrl,” said Hugo, an elfin-face sixth grader from Brooklyn, who was given her first drum set at 7.
