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Porch concerts from a 14-year-old trumpeter
When lockdown called off the concerts, Aiden Peterson took his trumpet outside. He's 14, and he plays for older people in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. more
He stands in the open air beside a stone building with windows along the wall, lifts the horn and plays. Nobody has to leave the house to hear it.
SaveThe people he plays for are older, and they stay indoors. They listen from inside while he plays on the other side of the glass.
SaveAt one house with white shutters, he plays close to the window. An older woman watches from inside, smiling.
SaveAiden is an eighth grader at The Shipley School, and he has played the trumpet since he was five. He's also a bugler who plays Taps for the US military.
The trumpet isn't his only instrument. He also plays cello at the bedside of patients at the Philadelphia VA. At 14, he already has three kinds of audience, and one of them is the folks watching from their windows.

















