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THE TAMMURRIATA
by Luca De Simone
http://www.youtube.com/user/echeaggiascriver

What is the tammurriata? To answer the central question of an article that is looking to inform people with a vague if some knowledge of this term, and of the connected rite , is certainly not an easy task(1). When Chris asked me to write this article, he actually made this task more easy. All I have to do is simply describe my experience. This allow me to do not quote the eminent anthropologists and ethnomusicologists who observed and in some case tried to decode this characterizing phenomenon of the Campania’s region (2). So…what’s the Tammurriata? Living it as an insider, as drummer, when it comes the night or it is already dawn when I put my drum in its bag, I questioned myself, trying to reflect on the experience just made. This is my explanation: the tammurriata is an “event”. Clearly I must explain what does it mean for me this term. It is simple, it is exactly what you can find on a dictionary, it is something that happens in a certain place, on a certain time. But it is necessary to add something to this definition, and it is that tammurriata is a “complex event”, made by elements to which it is intimately connected. Without them, even just one of them, this event cannot exist. Am I confusing you? I’ll try to make myself more clear, describing one tammurriata, better The Tammurriata, starting with the key terms previously used, i. e. the place, the time, the elements and/or the actors of the ritual.

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Wubulikasam on the Uighur Dab.

Yousif Sheronick has released a new dvd for the advanced techniques for frame drums and middle eastern percussion. The DVD takes the student beyond the “dum” and “tak” knowledge to more substantial development in phrases and faster techniques. After years of study with Glen Velez, Yousif demonstrates these techniques including split finger, fast fingerings, snapping, split finger and italian triplets, and cymbal fingerings.

Yousif’s first DVD for Riq has been a very popular work and this DVD extends his teaching to the uses on bodhran, tar, riq and other drums.
for more information: http://www.yousifsheronick.com

Frame Drum Festival in Italy – May 28 – June 1, 2009.

Info: info@tamburimundi.de

Web: http://www.tamburimundi.com

Featuring workshops by:

ANDREA PICCIONI (ITALY – TAMBURELLO)
NANDO CITARELLA (ITALY – TAMMORRA )
BRUNO SPAGNA (ITALY – TAMMURRIATA- and PIZZICA-DANCE)
ALESSIA LO GRASSO (ITALY – TAMMURRIATA- and PIZZICA-DANCE)
MURAT COSKUN (GERMANY/TURKEY – FRAME DRUMS)
DAVID KUCKHERMANN (GERMANY – FRAME DRUMS)

NAFDA Canada – Canadian Frame Drum Festival – June 14, 2009 – Sunday in Toronto!

Featuring artists from Canada, India, Ireland, USA, and Iran.

Workshops: June 14, 2009 – SUNDAY – 9:00 am – 6:00 pm

• Trichy Sankaran – Kanjira Techniques & Style
• Patrick Graham – Mediterr-Asian Tambourine Techniques
• Ziya Tabassian – Persian Daf & Dayereh Techniques & Rhythms
• N. Scott Robinson – Modern Bodhran Techniques
• Alan Hetherington – Brazilian Pandeiro Techniques & Rhythms
• Steáfán Hannigan – Irish Bodhrán Techniques & Rhythms

The passing of our friend Gianluca Baldo came as a shock to many of us, and as we mourn the passing of a kind and generous brother, here is an homage to Gianluca from Paolo Cimmino

Welcome to the new Framedrum.org website. We’ve ditched the Joomla pages due to the desire to simply foster a communication site were we can share events, resources and discussion about our passion, frame drumming.

We hope you’ll enjoy the conversation and if you have suggestions, we are very open to ideas and interests.

Welcome and let us know what’s on your mind.

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