5 February 2010, 12:18 PM
Filed under: Drums, Events,
This Sunday, February 7, 2010 - 11:00am - 1:00pm at A.D.Barnes Park - camping area near the Nature Center: 3401 SW 72 Avenue Miami, FL. Bring your drum and chairs as well as your Sunday’s best for some drum circle outdoors.
Also,
Stay Tune for Matthew Hill’s workshop. Sunday 21st, February morning. Time to be established at Miami beach studio. There’s going to be two workshops, beginners and not so beginners. One class would be immediately after the other and everyone is welcome to attend. Bring your drum. Class cost is $15.
Take advantage of this class, Matthew is an excellent teacher and musician.
Check out the video I did with him while he was still in South Florida, before going back to Africa and moving to NY.
Drum circle at Unity on the Bay:
Saturday 30, 2010 from 7 to 9 Pm. 411 NE 21. Miami, FL Led by Carlos Planas.
Full moon drum circle:
Saturday 30, 2010 - Go to the Full moon drum circle page for more info.
Last but not least, Matthew Hill is visiting South Florida once again and we’re planning to do a small workshop around the Miami Beach area. Details will follow, so stay tune.
Check out a little dark video recorded last Friday drum circle at Bagua:
7 January 2010, 11:54 AM
Filed under: Drums, Events,
I hope you had a wonderful beginning of 2010, and with it, also our new chili temperature.
this Friday at LE Cafe Mimo:
Friday’s Rhythmic Values of the Soul Drum Circle - Friday 8th of January, at 9PM - Le Cafe 7295 Biscayne Blvd Miami, FL. We will have the fire pits in the parking lot, so please do not park in the area marked off for the drum circle. Le Cafe has a full menu for those who would like to come for dinner before the drum circle.
Hollywood Drum Circle/Picnic Sunday January 10, 2010 4:00 pm - 7:30 pm - Holland Park - Main Level of Waterfront Tower 801 Johnson Street - Hollywood, FL 33019 Phone: 954-889-8615
19 November 2009, 10:48 AM
Filed under: Drums, Events,
Hello,
I’m happy to announce a new event calendar at the blog. No more browsing around for the latest events around town!
http://www.miamidrums.com/drum-circle-and-drum-event-calendar/
This weekend Hollywood drum circle - check event page for info
Delou drum classes at FIU
Broward drum circle this Saturday and the upcoming Monthly Last Quarter Moon Drum Circle with Fire to Celebrate Last Quarter Moon. — Dec 7
Keep up the drums laud and strong!
12 November 2009, 10:44 AM
Filed under: Drums, Events,
Mad Hatter Sidewalk Drum Circle, Saturday, November 14, 1:00 pm to 4:45 pm. Grand Ave across from The Mayfair in Coconut Grove
2982 Grand Ave (on the sidewalk in that general area) Coconut Grove,
Bring yourself, bring your drum, Bring your dancing feet! Come and lay your rhythms down, ‘Cause we’re taking it to the street!
Seating and shelter are provided by the Mad Hatter Art Festival.
This is an Open Drum Circle - drums, flutes, zils and hoops are welcome.
Also this weekend, Delou African Ensemble continues classes at FIU campus and like every weekend Broward drum circle.
Hope your plans for Halloween are going good.
This weekend, Delou continuous its classes at the FIU campus. Sunday November 1st.
Also there’s a drum circle and picnic at Amelia Earhart Park at the “old beach” area for “dead day” or as is known in Mexico, “El día de los muertos”. Address is 401 E 65th Street, the park charges $6 per car to get in. Bring something yummy to share.
I haven’t attended to Carlos Plana’s Drum Circle at Unity on the Bay Monday November 2, 2009 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm. Unity on the Bay, Cameron House 411 NE 21. Street, Miami, FL. If you tell us how was the experience!
Last but not least, the Broward drum circle this Sunday, check the times because they have changed, and of course the Full moon drum circle on Miami beach on Monday the 2nd of November.
Virginia Key drum circle,Sunday October 18th at 2 Pm.4020 Virginia Beach Drive
This sunday Delou continues its classes at the FIU campus building #2.
Balaphon at 1:30, drums at 2:30, dance class at 3:45
West African Dance & Drum Class Saturday October 17 at 4:00 pm at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center
6161 NW 22 Ave, Miami, FL 33142
I’m planning to go to Virginia Key, hope to see you there!
This Sunday 20th: Drum Circle at Virginia Key Beach. Wonderful setting for a drum circle, you can even go to the beach if you want…
3:30 pm - 6:00 pm - 4020 Virginia Beach Drive - 305-960-4600 / 305-632-7514 / 305-960-4618
Fore Sacre West African Drum & Dance Workshop Series - Tuesday September 29, 2009 - 1:30 pm - 8:15 pm
Haile Selassie I Learning and Community Center - 6301 NW 6th Ave., Unit #4 - Miami, FL 33150
WORKSHOP FEES
Adults/Children 12 +: $15 per class (children under 12 FREE)
SPECIAL DISCOUNT: Any 5 classes + concert ticket: $65.00
It’s a shame this is on a Tuesday!
West African Drum Class Saturday September 19, 2009 - 11:00 am - 12:30 pm [ And every other Saturday]
5533 La Gorce Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33140 - 850-212-1976 305-975-5895 - Cost - $15 -Instructor Eric “Bli Bi” Gore
A master drummer for sure…
Delou Resumes its community classes:
Florida International University (fiu) biscayne campus - 3000 ne 151 st miami fl rm. 220 academic 2 bldg.
Balafon class - instructed by Ibrahima Dioubate - time:1:30p-2:30p - $25.00
Djembe/djun-djun class instructed by Mory Fofana - time: 2:30p-3:30p - $10.00
Dance class instructed by delou - time: 3:45-5:15p - donation in kind
Like always, Broward Saturday drum circle… So plenty to choose from…
Have a great weekend…
27 August 2009, 9:44 AM
Filed under: Drums, Events,
This next Friday 28th of August Bagua Drum circle:
This a young drum circle that has been growing steadily through out the months. Nice garden behind the store. If weather is bad, drum circle transforms into a more intimate indoor music jam.
4736 NE 2nd Ave - Miami, FL - 305-757-9857 . Starts around 8 PM. Open percussion drum circle in the backyard garden. Parking on the street.
Eric Bli Bli Gore took over Matthew’s class, West african drum instruction. I’m not sure if class’s price is the same. Every Saturday morning at 11 @ 5533 La Gorce Dr. Miami Beach, FL
News from Clint from Paralounge:
Paralounge Drum Gathering - October 16-18, 2009 - At the Cerveny Conference Center in Live Oak Florida on HWY 90.
Clint’s comments sound really exciting:
“Cerveny Conference Center is a beautiful facility on over 530 acres of pristine Florida woodlands. The facility is owned by the Episcapol Church but is not a religious institution. The facility is open to open to any responsible event. White Lake is at the center of the property and can be seen from the Conference area. It has been a lot larger but has suffered a bit from recent drought. It is still a large lake, but when the water comes back, it’s a really big lake.”
This sounds like an ideal place for Paralounge. $55.00 per person / Children 3 - 12 are $15.00
The price includes primitive camping October 16,17 2009. The price also includes all workshops and performances. Meals are separate.
Next Monday 31st Saibou Ba is teaching at the African Heritage Cultural Arts Center
on Saturday May 23, 2009 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm 6161 NW 22 Ave Miami, FL 33142 - 305-721-8934.
And like always Broward drum circle this Saturday….
I’ve always wonder about rhythm and music ownership. A drummer, a performer a musician might perform for the crowd, but this is ultimately a mistake. An artist at any level and age should perform for himself regardless of what other people say. Sure, some people are crowd pleasers, but that doesn’t change the fact about why there’s an intention for music or art from the artist in the first place.
The rhythm ownership then is subject to what type of property law? Since we are born, everything carries a name tag on the side, the hospital you were deliver, the bed where your mother gave birth, the watch the delivery doctor was wearing to calculate your contractions, the flowers that were given to your family when you cried for the first time in this earth.
A rhythm is a different manner, to own it, you have to conquer it first, and this might just be for an instance.
No ownership is more fragile than the music one, once you stop there’s no rhythm, no music, no nothing. Many can come behind you, and even play the exact same phrase but it’s never the same, as with our fingerprints, those expressions are unique and irreproducible.
Is the music yours? Does it belong to your listeners? Are the sound waves carved with your copyright infringement on them ??
Yesterday I went to the full moon drum circle in 79th and Collins, I’m not sure why but everyone thinks they own the place. While playing with Angelo, and playing in ‘threes’, something many drummers are not comfortable with, an old guy feels important enough to interrupt everyone and tells me to ‘hear’ the other drummers. Well, that precisely what I was doing, even with only 4 people playing. He went on to say that I wasn’t playing musically, mind you he was playing a single egg shaker, and that gave him the authority to interrupt everyone to tell them what to do.
I’ve never consider myself an expert drummer, I ain’t that good and even If I were I wouldn’t call myself that, but why someone without any idea decides what’s music and what’s not? Not only to find an extra set of drunk people that would pretend to tell you what to play… Those are the worst, while you’re playing the approach you with their current DUI and exclamate loudly to your ear the rhythm combination they’re expecting you to play.
I’m sorry Mr aficionado, but the answer is no. Never again. No drum no say, It’s that easy. Unless you’re invited to play on my drum, get the hell away from it, and from me too…
I see it this way:
Drummers play for themselves, and for fellow drummers. Dancers are an extra that’s always welcome and appreciated - It means that what you’re playing is good enough for someone to dance to - like a plan that blossoms and shares its flowers to you.
Nobody owns the rhythm, it’s as simple as that. Nobody owns the drum circle. You might send an email to remind people about it, but that’s it, not even when you get an illegal vendor selling wraps in the middle of the night at the beach.
Ownership is a complicated issue…
This weekend:
Broward drumcircle, Hollywood drm circle and the last Matthew Hill class at Miami beach
Loading ...
Mad Hatter Sidewalk Drum Circle, Saturday, November 14, 1:00 pm to 4:45 pm. Grand Ave across from The Mayfair in Coconut Grove
Hope your plans for Halloween are going good.
This next Friday 28th of August Bagua Drum circle:
