Today marked the first of a series of coffee house type performances by the high school students. After school the kids set up the amps and mic on the patio outside the cafeteria on the edge of the playground.

It's hard to see so let me paint you a picture. Imagine a sizable courtyard that contains some large banyan and palm trees, a small stage, two basketball and two volleyball courts, a play scape for the elementary kids, and the first grade garden. On one side of this is the cafeteria where the high schoolers have set up their music while on the playground there are scores of little kids running around and a couple dozen parents sitting and chatting and ignoring their children. Then toss in marginally inappropriate lyrics and karaoke and you've Cadenza, after school entertainment, Taiwan style.