The idea of a concert where everyone plays vegetables sounds like a funny one-night-only joke. Still‚ the Vegetable Orchestra‚ out of Vienna‚ has played more than 300 concerts and released 4 albums over the past 25-plus years.It all started when the group’s founder‚ Matthias Meinharter‚ had a silly idea in the kitchen. His friend had signed them up for an hour-long slot at a student festival and they wanted to perform non-traditional music. “As we were making vegetable soup‚ we landed on the idea of cooking it on stage and performing a concert with the vegetables while we were doing that‚” Meinharter told Atlas Obscura. “It all started as a joke‚” he told the BBC. “We were brainstorming what we could do‚ and we thought: ‘What is the most difficult thing to play music on?’”The big problem with playing instruments made of vegetables is that they rot. So before every performance‚ the group has a delivery of 200 to 300 pounds worth of veggies that they fashion into instruments. Getting the right sound from a carrot‚ leek‚ or lotus root can also be challenging.“Vegetables are unpredictable‚” Susanna Gartmayer‚ who plays over a dozen instruments including the carrot marimba and the radish bass flute in the group‚ told the BBC. “No two pieces of produce are the same. It’s a challenge.”Following the performance‚ the leftover vegetables and cut-off parts are cooked into a soup and served to the audience.Here is a performance of the song “Transplants” live at Volkstheater Vienna on February 11‚ 2013.Worldwide one of a kind‚ the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instrume...