I'll show you mine if you show me yours. The Harvest Moon seems to be the one that seems to impact me the most and the Garden of the Gods Harvest Full Moon #Drumcircle is tonight. I'm going to try to get

The video presented here is coming from my old D.Tube dead files. It is of the Wasylla Drummers in 1998 from the show I produced at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs. Wysylla Drummers: Taina Lucas,

I have a friend, Barb, who became very serious about studying the African drums. She packed up and moved to Boulder, Colorado to study with master Farra Tolno for four years. Needless to say, she is excellent!

I am trying to bring a video I took from FaceBook to steemit instead of going through YouTube. I thought this could be done...did something change while I was a way these last 3 weeks? ▶️ DTube

It's been a whirlwind life since I was last here, mostly fun and sublime but a lot of new "stuff" to think about that I wasn't planning on thinking about...ya know what I mean?? LIFE! It started

Fotokotabah, a rhythm originating in the Great Malian Empire, metamorphosed over the generations. Celebrations being one of the favorite pass-times of West Africans, Fotokotabah easily lent itself to welcoming

@cOFF33a, you must admit someone else doing the cleaning is pretty sublime especially while I'm doctoring a hip injury. Thank you for providing a #sublimesunday tag that lets us share something special

Lenjeng is a rhythm and dance that the Mandingo villagers of Casamance Senegal and the Sierra Leone area created during The Great Malian Empire to emulate the flight of the Herons, one of many animal's

I enjoyed drumming with this gentleman last month. He played these colorful drums with such power and confidence it was infectious. Thank you @worldcapture for letting me share my Confidence and Color

Someone adds a flute to this rhythm and later a shekere which is a dried gourd with beads or cowrie shells weaved into a net covering the gourd mostly common in West African and Latin music.

This video is from a show I produced at the Fine Arts Center located in Colorado Springs in 1998. Kuku is the youngest of the traditional rhythms. It is approximately 95 years old. Kuku is one of the most

I wanted to title this entry the many faces of Marshall but Marshall doesn't have many faces. He is all work and no play. Yes, he has a "goody goody goody it's treat time" look and the intense

This segment is from the earlier part of the evening. One thing about the rhythms played at drum circle, you never know how they are going to get started or when they will end or what the rhythm will sound

Twin brothers, Stuart and William Dinwoodie, play the African rhythm Kabala on djembes at the Fine Arts Center in Colorado Springs. Kabala is originally from the African Congo Kabala. This arrangement

Before steemit I rarely took photos. This is one of my favorite that I took several years ago with the cell phone I had at the time. I don't remember the brand or name but the cell phone's camera had some

Tonight did not go as I planned. It was one of the most amazing full moon skies and I have nothing to show you. I feel sick thinking about the loss of video. I guess the moon rising from behind these

Once a month, weather permitting, a drum circle is held at a famous park in our area called The Garden Of The Gods. We seem to always get help in carrying our drum and tonight was no exception. Tonight's

It was an exceptionally beautiful night to take in the Manitou Drum Circle. They ended up playing past the required quitting time. Sometimes the mix of a beautiful night and connected drumming music is

This may look like a simple bird house made by a child and it was. The memory of the story that went with this garden treasure is ours and it still makes us smile. It now lays at the top of the lily garden.

It's been a month since my last post of the trees in our garden and that was my plan but so many of the blooms happen in July that I think I'll post as Shangri la under the trees explodes. Umbrellas are