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Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:54:00

Drumming has for a long time been known to have profound effects on those listening and playing rhythms.

There has been many different studies regarding the benefits of rhythm and music with peoples health, here is an interesting link with some information from one of those studies carried out by rem drum company.

Drumming and the benefits for Health & Wellbeing : )

www.remo.com/portal/pages/hr/research/Immune+System.html

Weekly Drum workshops in Athy

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:53:00

The weekly drum circle in Athy community Arts Centre is now on every monday evening from 8pm. The Arts centre is on woodstock st.

This session is suitable for people of all levels including total beginners to people with some musical experience, all drums and instruments are provided, please feel free to bring your own too. for bookings and further information contact dave on 087 2404442, costs are €10 and €7 for students, low waged and OAPs..

I look forward to seeing you all again..

Dave

Akrowa show

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:39:00

Akrowa show..

Here's an exciting new project with my good friend Thomas Annang from Ghana..

Akrowa is an interactive show giving audiences an insight into percussion, song & dance from West Africa.

Check out our short promo video for a taste of what we do..

www.youtube.com/watch

We are available to give Performances, Drum and Dance workshops, fun interactive shows for festivals, cultural events, schools, youth and community groups, corporate events- Team Building sessions throughout Ireland.

Prices are available on request and subject to group sizes..

Feel free to call or email for further information.

087 2404442

Dave

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Can Drumming improve your Health ???

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:09:00

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7872043.stm

Great video of Babara Bangoura at the Big Bang festival of rhythm...

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:16:00

Here s a solo jembe piece played by the legendary percussionist babara bangoura from Guinea West Africa..

www.youtube.com/watch

Temple house festival

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:57:00

Here's some nice video footage of the Acoustic stage at temple house festival 2010.

vimeo.com/15923295

Here's a fantastic video documenting Rhythm and Life in West Africa..

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:56:00

This is the best video i have seen on youtube.

Please share the link..

www.youtube.com/watch

Here are some links to recommended websites.

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:33:00

Here are some links to some useful websites for gathering new information on Jembe and some of my favorite artists.

www.famoudoukonate.com

Maître du Djembe - Master of the Djembe

Famoudou Konaté is a world-renowned virtuoso of the djembe drum and its orchestra. One of only a handful of initiated Masters of the Malinké drumming tradition, Famoudou is universally respected as one of the world’s premiere djembe Drum Masters. He has dedicated his life to performing and preserving the music of his people, helping to elevate the djembe orchestra from its traditional roots to worldwide popularity.

Famoudou was born in 1940 near Sangbaralla, a village in the Hamana region of Upper Guinea, the Malinké heartland and the birthplace of the Dunun family of rhythms. A percussive prodigy, he was drumming in community festivals at the age of eight and was soon in demand as a djembefola across the region. From 1959 to 1985, Famoudou was the Lead Djembe Soloist for Les Ballets Africains de la République de Guinée, touring the world and performing with astounding virtuosity. During this time, Famoudou himself created many of the musical arrangements now common in West African performance groups worldwide.

Since 1986, he has taught and performed annually throughout Europe, Japan, Israel, North America and West Africa, instilling a generation of non-African drummers with an extraordinary level of training. In 1996 he received an honorary professorship in Didactics of African Musical Practice from University of the Arts Berlin. He has produced 7 CDs, including his latest Hamana Namun.

www.youtube.com/watch

www.mamadykeita.com

Mamady Keïta was born in 1950 in Balandugu (Guinea), a village of the Wassolon region, near the Fé River. His father was a master hunter and a fida tigi (master of the plants, that is to say a healer). His mother, wishing to know the destiny of the child that she was carrying, consulted a soothsayer who announced that it would be her last son: “The child must be left to amuse himself because it is there that he will make is name.”

From when he was old enough to crawl, Mamady descended on all the pots and pans in order to turn them over and beat on them. “My son will therefore be a djembefola;” his mother said to herself and she had an instrument constructed to his size. Very quickly he surprised everyone by his natural gifts. No one could believe their ears and they would ask themselves how a small boy could draw such a sound from a drum. Mamady “Nankama” (Mamady-who-was-born-for-that), and “Balandugudjina” (the devil of Balandugu) are his two nicknames.

He owed his initiation into the history of the Mandeng and its music to Karinkadjan Kondé, an old djembefola (djembe player) of his village; in Malinke they say “Words come forth from an old mouth to enter a new ear.” Curious about everything, he would not rest until he knew, firstly all the rhythms of the Wassolon, then of the Mandeng and those of the neighboring ethnic groups.

The new president of Guinea, Sekou Touré, wished to spotlight Guinean Culture through music and dance and therefore devised a system of local, regional and national competitions that would attract the best artists of the land into the National Ballets of Guinea. Out of over 500 competitors, Mamady Keïta, at the age of fourteen, was selected as one of 5 percussionists, only three of which were djembe players. There were forty-five artists that comprised the National Ballet Djoliba and Mamady was the youngest member. For over twenty years, Mamady travelled around the world with Djoliba, only resting between tours for short periods in his native country.

He was named lead djembe soloist only one year after Djoliba was formed, he was just 15 years old. At seventeen, the young drummer was cast in a Harry Belafonte film titled Africa Dance. After 15 years in the Ballet Djoliba, when he was 29, Mamady became the artistic director and fulfilled this function until 1986 when he left the ballet for good; this was the first time that a drummer was given the position of artistic director.

www.youtube.com/user/tamtammandingue#p/a/f/1/zLXdNQ3az88

This is a great website for connecting with other people interested in Jembe and west African Drumming, its got good forums and interviews and lots and lots of information..

www.djembefola.com

www.bigbangfestival.com

Sixteen years ago, the first Big Bang Festival was organised in Dublin by CityArts and Wet Paint Arts, changing the landscape of drumming in Ireland forever. Big Bang, now an independent festival, continues to celebrate a broad spectrum of styles of drumming, but also rhythm as it affects other art forms such as dance, voice and visual art.

The Big Bang has presented a diverse range of international performers: Trilok Gurtu (India), Mamady Keita (Guinea),Johnny Kalsi (UK), Sergio Krakowski (Brazil), HeartBeat Percussion (Singapore), Monobloco (Brazil), Seckou Keita(Senegal), Andrea Piccioni (Italy) and Abdullah Chhadeh (Syria).

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health rhythms

Weekly Drum workshops in Athy

Akrowa show

Can Drumming improve your Health ???

Great video of Babara Bangoura at the Big Bang festival of rhythm...

Temple house festival

Here's a fantastic video documenting Rhythm and Life in West Africa..

Here are some links to recommended websites.

www.famoudoukonate.com

www.mamadykeita.com

www.djembefola.com

www.bigbangfestival.com

www.pixelcode.ie