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DRUM CIRCLES & HAND PERCUSSION
A community drum circle, grows out of a realization that rhythm is a language that can
unite the diverse elements of humanity. Rhythm succeeds where words
fail.
Global Percussion players work with rhythmic, harmonic principles
to play music, especially for the mental, physical and spiritual well
being of themselves, listeners and surrounding community.
When the circle works as a team,
everyone benefits, because we all hit THE GROOVE, where the energy
flows, time stops and we all evaporate....that bliss only occurs when
the circle works as a team. These principles will serve your
everyday life
Remember that the listener/dancer is as much a part of
the music as the drummer, in a way. The styles are defined by particular
parts, rhythms, tempos, etc., and unless you know what to play, you
won't be helping the music, but messing it up.
Music and dance are
BIG MEDICINE for the Planet Earth CommUNITY of
the 21st
century. Look for them in the Streets
at Carnavals or other great people's events.
Then feel the global groove
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Hand drum links
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africanbeat.com/
This site covers events around the Los Angeles area. Drum, dance, drum circles and more.
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azrhythmconnection.com/
The Arizona Rhythm Connection provides updates on rhythm happenings in the Copper State and beyond, as well as info on drum and dance teachers, recordings, merchants and not-to-be missed opportunities. Drummer, dancer storyteller and author Sule Greg Wilson provides monthly essays on drum-relevant topics.
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| Brother Pateticua members.cox.net a friar with the Universal Life Church in Cleveland Ohio is using drum circles..
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| Drum Circles at Rainbow Gathering John Scalici from Birmingham, Alabama is a student of Arthur Hull
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| DrumBrothers.com , a Montana based, family owned company committed to drumming, rhythm, and rhythm awareness. good content on this site..
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| DrumCafe.co.uk in London some very serious players, including Baba Kone, Malo Sonko, Landin Mane, Moisi Conde, Mohammed Alidu and Salifou Sylla . Last year they got 5 stars at the Edinburgh fringe festival.
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drumcircle.com/
Arthur Hull's Web site for drummers and drum circle facilitators. |
drumming.com/
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411drums.com/
drum information portals for all types of drumming
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| DrumJourney.com - David Johannes' site, a nice drum circle site, with a little of everything: photos, articles, rhythm tabs; well done, David..
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| DRUMLOFT.com Ron Knight in SanDiego..
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| Drumming the Soul Awake (with Jaime Meyer) - Universalist Church of Minneapolis; this drum circle uses primarily frame drums; a very interesting program, from the looks of it..
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| drumming-about-you.com Bob Bloom , one of the Pioneers..
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| drumming-about-you.com Bob Bloom is a highly experienced drum circle facilitator based in Connecticut. Check out his site at
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drumming-about-you.com/
Drumming About You is a hands-on, participatory event that is accessible to all ages, and is inclusive of elders and people of challenge.
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| drummingcircle.com/ John Yost & Co., up in chicago
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| drumndance.com - Santa Cruz based (Santa Cruz has a great drumming community) Doers of drum n dance workshops and retreats...
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 drummm.com
Established in Chicago in 2000 by Jeni Swerdlow, a dynamic
and engaging percussionist, drum facilitator, educator, art therapist and
performer Jeni relocated to Oakland in 2006.
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from five 10-year-olds to 150 adults. Each time, she has sensed
where the audience is beginning musically and emotionally, and
takes them on a journey to a place they didn’t know imaginable.”
--John Knecht, Drummer/Drum Facilitator |
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Drumocracy.com
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drumpath.net/
Sule Greg Wilson has been involved in cultural programming since Junior High School back in Washington, DC, where he studied drumming and folklore with Tunda, Baba Ngoma and Baile McKnight.
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DrumsDatabase.com
The Drums and Percussion Resource for Players and Music Educators.
Lots of lessons! |
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DRUMmagazine.com
- DRUM! magazine attracts the next generation of drummers |
Drums.org massive site, lots of info.
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drumresource.net
Teachers, performers, class schedules, drum circles,
workshops, performances, recordings, learning materials, vendors, and
manufacturers - with a regional focus on New England. Owner: Bruce Elliott. |
earthdrum.com
Earth Drum Council is doing great work on the drumming for wellness scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts . These are some of the original pioneers..
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ethnicarts.org/
Information about The Arts, especially Ethnic Arts & artists.You'll find listings and links for classes, events and artists in the Santa Cruz county area, the Central Coast and greater Bay area, Southern California, the Pacific Northwest, as well as the USA and International venues.
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| ExecutiveEdgeInc.com - Fred Ardillo - corporate trainer - TeamRhythmWorks: "Facilitating Your Desired Results through Rhythm"
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| FireDance.org -drum and dance celebration celebrations
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| freestyledrummin.ca P am Whitehead - a Canadian FreeStyle Drummer/facilitator
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GetRhythmnow.com
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| GruntProductions.com Drum Circles - Northern Ireland.. it seems the UK is really taking off..
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| grybmusic.com Steve Gryb does a percussion program for kids entitled Rhythm is going to Get You.
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| handsonsemble.com/
contemporary percussion quartet devoted to the art of hand drumming
co-founded by renowned percussionist John Bergamo (with Randy Gloss, Andrew
Grueschow, and Austin Wrinkle |
handsondrum.com/ Jim Greiner's Hands-On! Drumming®
A fine drum circle facilitator who works throughout North America. |
handsondrums.co.uk/ UK based (Simon Webster)
healthysounds.com
Music Therapist Barry Berstein's laudable activities |
HolyGoat.com Percussion
Taylor, a Chicago based Teacher and Facilitator...
Good vibes RADIATING from this page. Also check out: |
| InnerRhythms.net - Based in the Pacific Northwest, Inner Rhythms is a crew of five highly experienced facilitators under the direction of Eric Donaldson.
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interworldmusic.com/
Offers a complete catalog of Interworld's Instructional Hand Drumming Videos and Inspirational World Spiritual CDs.
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| Janet Planet at j2k.com
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| KenneThomas.com
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| LuKaPercussion.com Canadian maufacturers of fine djembes..
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 mickeyhart.net
Mickey Hart is best known for his nearly three
decades as an integral part of an extraordinary expedition into the soul and
spirit of music, disguised as the rock and roll band the
Grateful Dead.
His
tireless study of the world's music led Mickey to many great teachers and
collaborators, including his partners in Planet Drum
Mickey
has written four books documenting his lifelong fascination with the history
and mythology of music. These include Drumming at the Edge of Magic, Planet
Drum, Spirit into Sound: The Magic of Music, and
Songcatchers:
In Search of the World’s Music.
Long a social activist, Mickey appeared in August, 1991 before the U.S.
Senate Committee on Aging, speaking on the healing value of drumming and
rhythm on afflictions associated with aging. |
| Na Kiri, a Dutch amateur djembe troupe
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olatunjimusic.com/voices.htm
Voices of Africa is a cooperative effort by African Musicians, singers, dancers and other performers, to raise funds in order to alleviate some of the human suffering experienced in impoverished areas throughout the Mother-land.
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Percuctitis, the Midwest drum project - These are drum circle facilitators out of Chicago, Illinois - check em out
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Percussion in North Carolina , and Cuba!
are two sites maintained by Mary Overby |
| psalmdrummers.org - a worldwide network of people who use drumming to create unity and bring about change. Their core values are rooted in the Christian faith, and biblical teaching. A very interesting development..
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| ResonanceAndRhythms.com , Judy Piazzadetails her drumming and other related musical activities...her workshops often utilize frame drums..
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RhythmdotCom.com - Drum circle facilitators in New Zealand - Thanks for the link Jaqui B.
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| rhythmjourney.com Paulo Mattioli's site , important leader of the drum circle scene and truly great talent
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| Rhythmkids.com - Tom Foote & Co., based in Boston, is working with kids..
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| rhythmsofcollaboration.com/ Adam Rudolph's Rhythms of Collaboration Drum Circles
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| salemdrum.com/ Jeff Salem , a Toronto based facilitator and pro drummer/clinician. This is another fellow we met at an Arthur Hull playshop.
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| Susan Wallace at webcastle.com is a Houston based facilitator
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| The Drumming Hippie Jesus Freak's Website at geocities
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TonyVacca.com/
Information on Tony Vacca and the World Rhythms organization. Programs range from educational concert and workshop presentations in schools, to collaborative recordings, performances at jazz and world music festivals, and special tours, such as the Senegal-America Project.
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| ubdrumcircles.com - Christine Stevens, drum circle facilitator and REMO artist
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| VeniceBeachDrumCircle.com - A great drum circle page...includes history, events, boardwalk photos, profiles of local artists, and more
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| VGdrum.com Village Green Drum Collective of Vermont - The scene is robust in Vermont thanks to these folks.
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weareTheDrum.com/
We Are The Drum offers West African Drumming with Rosario Carelli. Their Wind Horse Community Camps offers Multi cultural music and dance retreats for all ages.
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| YorubaHouse.net L.A. based
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"So we started way back, and now we are going back to just
ourselves. Rediscovering ourselves. And from there on we can
move forward. We are trying to put together the great things of
the past with the present for the future. You know the sky is
not the limit anymore,
it is space now.
We are discovering that we need to come back down to earth, from
where we started. It’s as if we are trying to balance things up,
in essence."
Baba |
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Study: Group Drumming Boosts
Cancer-Killer Cells |
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A
groundbreaking study published in the January 2001 issue of Alternative
Therapies links a specific type of group drum playing, known as
Composite drumming, with an increase in Natural Killer (NK) cell
activity, one of the mechanisms through which the body combats cancer
and viral illnesses. These findings reinforce the theory of a mind-body
connection that influences the immune system, and may point the way to
reversing the “Classic Stress Response” which depresses immune system
function.
Led by Barry Bittman, MD, the research team
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"I would rather belong to a tribal world
than to a modern society
Where there is no coming together
But being apart
I would rather be called tribal
At least i would not be alone
But one with my people
And with the rhythms
We play and we LIVE"
Dudu
Tucci
Dudu Tucci is a very popular teacher in Germany, many if not
most of the 50 Samba schools now in existence in Germany were
opened on his initiative. Together with Tiago de Oliveira Pinto
he published his book "Samba and Sambistas in Brazil".
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"The spirit of the
drum is something that you feel but cannot put your hands on It
does something to you from the inside out . . . it hits people
in so many different ways. But the feeling is one that is
satisfying and joyful. It is a feeling that makes you say to
yourself, 'I'm glad to be alive today! I'm glad to be part of
this world!'"
Baba |
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"We now have fistfulls of scientific
evidence that prove that young people who study and perform music do
better in math and sciences and other areas of learning. Many us us have
felt this for quite a few years, but now we do have scientific evidence
that proves that this does happen. The physical coordination is also
enhanced. Students do much better on SAT scores and we want to let
mothers and fathers know about this."
Larry "Link" Linkin, President & CEO NAMM,
(International Music Products Association)
noisytoys.com/interview5
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drumcircle.com
is Arthur
Hull
leading activist for the modern day community drum circle
movement |
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"You do
whatever you are called to do. This would take a whole book to
answer, but find your passion in life and pursue it like a new
love. Basically what you need to do is find out, what you want
and do
whatever it takes to follow that path.
Obstacles in your path will give you the strength and character
to follow that bliss." |
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The
djembe has achieved world status as a percussion
instrument, rivaled in popularity perhaps only by the conga and steel
pan. The djembe is perhaps the oldest of the
sophisticated West african drums, and the most popular. The djembe has
been used by generations of 'griots' and 'jalis' - ritual storytellers,
musicians, and royal advisers - at least as far back as the great Mali
Empire of Sundiata in the 13th century. The djembe is named after the
sound it makes when slapped and tapped (djem-be). 
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Drum Jokes
Conga
drums are from Cuba and Puerto Rico, with
roots in the cylindrical drums of Africa. Many countries have similarly
shaped drums, such as the atabaque of Brazil, or the solid wood carved
Ngomas of central Africa. Conga drums, typically
used in Latin music, are now widely used in all musical styles.
