Mash UP brings two Midwest artists or bands together to do one thing: create something new. Musicians have an hour to mix their styles and come up with an original song, tweak an existing track or work out a cool cover. After the hour is up, Urban Plains captures the performance. This week: Paul Virgilio and Ima Kulture.<\/em><\/p>\n[aesop_video width=”center” align=”left” src=”youtube” id=”spBx_-BwZf4″ loop=”off” autoplay=”off” controls=”off” viewstart=”off” viewend=”off”]\n\n\n\n\n\n When Paul Virgilio was 10, he wanted to play the French horn. Cello was his second choice. Luckily, the 24-year- old didn\u2019t get what he wanted. Instead, he moved from his hometown of Pleasant Valley, New York, to Des Moines, Iowa, in 2009 to study cello at Drake University. Virgilio started playing with the Des Moines Symphony in 2010.<\/a> He also plays cello in the local group Quartet 515<\/a> — and now, thanks to Mash UP, he\u2019s an honorary member of Ima Kulture on the track \u201cTraveling Man.\u201d<\/p>\nPaul Virgilio<\/h4>\n
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