--- title: Star Wars: Watch Pianist Brian Lockard and Son Play Cantina Song description: Watch pianist Brian Lockard and his son play an arrangement of the Cantina song from Star Wars. canonical: https://time.com/3895268/star-wars-cantina/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-24T15:16:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:44.101Z og:title: This Father-Son Duo Has the 'Star Wars' Cantina Song Down og:description: Relive the theme from the 1977 film og:url: https://time.com/3895268/star-wars-cantina/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a2d61d1828e775e/6988517f2dce016d0c9e3df3/star-wars-cantina-band.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: star-wars-cantina-band og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Father-Son Duo Has the 'Star Wars' Cantina Song Down twitter:description: Relive the theme from the 1977 film twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a2d61d1828e775e/6988517f2dce016d0c9e3df3/star-wars-cantina-band.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Father-Son Duo Has the _Star Wars_ Cantina Song Down  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi May 24, 2015 3:16 PM UTC  Youtube.com  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi May 24, 2015 3:16 PM UTC Pianist Brian Lockard and his son teamed up to play an original arrangement of “Cantina Band” from _Star Wars_ _:_ _A New Hope_ (1977), which they posted [online](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk6HNXqs0y4) Sunday. Lockard [appeared](http://www.ew.com/article/2009/07/23/americas-got-talent-recap-boyle) on _America’s Got Talent_ with his brother, Anthony, back in 2009, and has [posted](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClAOb8duv85-67gK4FRFpRQ) several other piano arrangements on his YouTube channel. The cantina theme video is the first to feature his son, who clearly has no problem keeping up with the fast-paced tune. Watch it below. Star Wars: Watch Pianist Brian Lockard and Son Play Cantina Song ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3895268/star-wars-cantina/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3895268/star-wars-cantina/"},"headline":"This Father-Son Duo Has the Star Wars Cantina Song Down","datePublished":"2015-05-24T15:16:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:44.101Z","description":"Relive the theme from the 1977 film","url":"https://time.com/3895268/star-wars-cantina/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","Star Wars"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a2d61d1828e775e/6988517f2dce016d0c9e3df3/star-wars-cantina-band.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a2d61d1828e775e/6988517f2dce016d0c9e3df3/star-wars-cantina-band.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"star-wars-cantina-band","caption":"star-wars-cantina-band","creditText":"Youtube.com","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3895268/star-wars-cantina/","name":"This Father-Son Duo Has the Star Wars Cantina Song Down"}}]}] ```