Each year, Italy hosts a frame drum event that draws some of the best frame drummers from around the world. This year, it is held in Montelparo Italy, June 19-23. Well, at least we can dream......even if the poster features only male drummers!
Details are on poster below & at www.framedrumsitalia.it
B. Michael Williams
Whether you are a formally trained musician or not, here are some websites to enjoy.
B. Michael Williams is an award-winning university professor of music in South Carolina. As a percussionist, he performs with symphonies and orchestras and participates in international percussive societies and events. Through his doctoral work on the percussionist John Cage (1935-1943), Dr. Williams studied middle eastern frame drumming.
He has now composed “Four Solos for Frame Drums.” Using the same strokes and techniques we do, he has developed scores for his frame drum and riq pieces .
Watch him and listen to him on www.honeyrock.net; www.bachovich.com; bmichaelwilliams.com
He demonstrates well the difference between drumming as performance and drumming as worship & prayer practice. Check it out!
Ottawa Biblical Drummers
Ottawa Biblical Drummers supporting one another and learning together
Read MoreMarla Leigh's workshops: are you going?
Earlier we shared the news of Marla's workshops coming to Nepean ON. This is a real opportunity to meet and drum with a very gifted woman from the southern US. Click on the post earlier post for details.
Miranda's up-coming workshops
While may of us here in Canada may not travel to such wonderful yet distant offerings, it is wise to know what else is going on in our frame drums' wider circles of Layne's students and teachers. Here is Miranda Rondeau's spring offerings. Her email is mirandaooruk@yahoo.com
Happy dreaming! Maybe one day......
Wed. May 22nd
Music offerings at IlluMOONation Project Women Circle
https://www.facebook.com/events/151960871651590/
Fri. May 24th
Vocal Toning Exploration Playshop
https://www.facebook.com/events/508990499136108/
Wed. May 29th
Ceremonial Songs & Sound Journey: Sound Bath Experience
https://www.facebook.com/events/327586540677944/
Sat. June 29th
Two Frame Drum Workshops
https://www.facebook.com/events/118301218363495/?ref=notif¬if_t=plan_user_joined
Festival details
Further details for our Festival have been added to the Festival page and will continue to be added as they are decided. Come join in the fun!
Frame Drumming with Marla Leigh!
A frame drum workshop is coming to Nepean, Ottawa!!! It is the Summer Solstice Frame Drum Workshop led by Marla Leigh from California. Her website: www.marlaleigh.com
This is an opportunity to learn with a gifted frame drummer.
Mother Earth's 'Cool' Drums
Re-establishing the Biblical Drum
An article appeared in the Stittsville News that you might enjoy reading:
http://issuu.com/performancegroupofcompanies/docs/stittsville031413/5
Some traditional Persian frame drumming
Check this out! Her frame drum has the jingles on the inside of the frame. This is why she gives gentle small shakes throughout. But wow! her speed! I love her concentration.
Other Canadian young women joining in
This is well worth your time: other young women reclaiming the spiritual power of f
Vocal Exploration Playshop
In Santa Monica CA, Miranda Rondeau leads workshops called "Vocal Exploration Playshop"
She invites us to learn to use our voices as offerings to the Holy One, along with our drumming.
Basically she begins by gently saying the strokes she is playing and then lets those words carry her into wordless song and drumming. It is very, very meditative and prayerful.
check out her two Demos at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVUbHgaZOMY
andwww.youtube.com/watch?v=Wdz3132V9Ys