Drum­ming for adults starts Jan­u­ary 9th

TRIAAC’s Wednes­day Night Drum­ming work­shop is set to begin its first 7-week cycle of 2013 on Jan­u­ary 9th. The adult drum­ming forum is designed for  stu­dents who want to expe­ri­ence the power of tra­di­tional jenbé and dunun drum­ming with their peers, in a safe learn­ing envi­ron­ment. The series of 7-week work­shops is geared to begin­ning and inter­me­di­ate stu­dents, with 90-minute classes that empha­size learn­ing the proper tech­nique to pro­duce the cor­rect sound for both the jenbé and dunun drums. Stu­dents will also receive his­tor­i­cal and con­tem­po­rary per­spec­tives on the Mandé cul­tures from which the music derives. With its home­land in Guinea and Mali, the jenbé and dunun are the tra­di­tional instru­ments of the Mandé drum ensem­ble, which that take vary­ing for­mu­la­tions through­out the Mande Dias­pora in West Afrika, depend­ing on the eth­nic group.

Spe­cial classes for both instru­ments can be arranged for advanced stu­dents. For more infor­ma­tion about Wednes­day Night Drum­ming, please call TRIAAC at 260 969‑9442, or email triaacadmin@comcast.net.

Wednes­day Night Drumming