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2015 Schedule of Classes

FRIDAY JULY 17
4:00 Register and set up camp
5:00 Opening Blessing with NEENA McNAIR
5:30 Dinner offered by the Board of WDI.   If you have special dietary needs, or want to share a dish, please bring!
7:00 Evening Program JENI SWERDLOW Opening Drum Circle, MABIBA AND SENA African Culture Drum & Song     CAMPFIRE
SATURDAY JULY 18           7:00 – 9:00       BREAKFAST
  PINE SOUTH REDWOOD CENTRAL EUCALYPTUS NORTH MEADOW / DINING AREA
9:30 – 11:00 Carolyn BrandyFundamentals of Rhythm & Basic Concepts for Conga

 

Sena KugbegaDrumming from Ghana Neena McNairNative American Drum Larissa Montfort West African Dunun Dance
11:15 – 12:45 Sue Kaye (Suki)Conga and Ngoma Drum Songs Mabiba BaegneDunun (Bass Drums) from Guinea

 

Susu PampaninMiddle Eastern Drum: Dunbek Regina Wells Living In My Body’s Rhythm and Tempo
1:00 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 – 3:30 Lali MejiaAfro-Venezuelan Percussion!

 

Mar StevensWest African Djembe Ouida LewisGROUNATION: The journey of Jamaica’s Popular Music.
3:45 – 5:15 Barbara BordenImprovising & Soloing

 

Afia Walking TreeGourdSong Shekere Playing Michaelle GoerlitzRio-style Samba Batucada
5:30 DINNER
7:00 Evening Program DEBBIE FIER Body Percussion, OUIDA LEWIS Jamaica! CAMPFIRE
SUNDAY JULY 19           7:00 – 9:00       BREAKFAST
  PINE SOUTH REDWOOD CENTRAL EUCALYPTUS NORTH MEADOW / DINING AREA
9:30 – 11:00 Carolyn Brandy6/8 Bembe with Songs, Conga, Bell, Chekere

 

Afia Walking TreeIntermediate Djembe Fevah* (West African) Debbie FierMiddle Eastern Class

 

Regina WellsLiving In My Body’s Rhythm and Tempo
11:15 – 12:45 Michaelle GoerlitzAfro Brazilian hand drumming

 

Sena KugbegaDrumming from Ghana Ouida LewisGROUNATION: The journey of Jamaica’s Popular Music

 

Odilia RodriguezWriting As Ritual
1:00 – 2:00 LUNCH
2:00 – 3:30 Elizabeth SayreAfro-Cuban Batá Drumming

 

Mabiba BaegneDunun (Bass Drums) from Guinea

 

Susu PampaninMiddle Eastern Drum

 

AvotcjaWhen Ancestors speak through rhythm
4:00 – 6:00 CLOSING CIRCLE JAM         CAMP CLEAN UP