![If you are going to have someone pounding out THOSE sorts of rhythms, you want someone playing bass....](https://www.thepanamanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/VIC6148-e1440618685196.jpg)
Opening night at the Central American Percussion Festival
photos and notes by Vic Brown
![Danni honors](https://www.thepanamanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fepece2015_08_20-honoree_danni_clovis-1-e1440619928265.jpg)
The Beachers
The Beachers are used to performing for a livelier audience. They feed off of their audiences’ feedback. While their performance was energetic as always, the audience feedback wasn’t always there — at least not at the level that they’re used to, for example at the Afro-Antillean Fair.
The Transistmico Project
![Pecussionisst Eric Blanquicet in the foreground with Osvaldo Ayala behind.](https://www.thepanamanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fepece2015_08_20-transistmico_project-eric_blanquicet.jpg)
Transistmico Project was filled with an interesting fusion of some classics from different genres thanks to producer Billy Herron.
![Guitarist Jean-Christophe Millard, from the French Caribbean island of Guadaloupe.](https://www.thepanamanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fepece2015_08_20-transistmico_project-Jean_Christophe_Millard-e1440621304686.jpg)
![Osvaldo](https://www.thepanamanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/fepece2015_08_20-transistmico_project-osvaldo_ayala-3-e1440621763788.jpg)