Don Moye dicsusses the reaction to his unique outfit.

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Don Moye on playing as a soloist or in a group.

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Don Moye discusses the preparation involved with a large outfit.

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Q: “What do you do to get around? You have a bus but can that carry all those instruments? I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything as impressive as the couple of hundred instruments which are spread over a stage. That’s got to be an enormous job – setting up, tearing down, doing a performance, moving it…”

A: “Yeah, it's quite. It's a large amount of work. For example, just a process of performing a concert, aside from the time, actual performance time, which might be two hours, we have to spend two hours setting up and another couple of hours taking it down. Usually, it runs about that. So it involves us getting to a place early in the afternoon and working straight up until it's time to perform and then working a couple of hours afterwards. So we put in 8 or 10 hour days, you know. Not including driving to the gig or whatever, you know, what the transportation situation is. But, you know, we realize that's just a burden that we have to bear as part of presenting what we want to do. That's the way we want to do it. I have certain things that I want to deal with, you know, with my instruments and everything. I have certain sounds that I want to present, you know, just a part of it.”