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NAFDA West – California Frame Drum Festival

October 17, 2009 – North Hollywood, California, USA

Featuring artists from Iran, India, USA & Israel

at

REMO Recreational Music Center
7308 Coldwater Canyon Avenue
(1/2 block North of Sherman Way)
North Hollywood, California 91605 USA

$100.00 (US) – all-inclusive for workshops & concert
(lodging, travel & meals not included)

INFO: http://www.nafda1.com/nafdawest.php

Reservations: nafda1@gmail.com

Workshops: Oct. 17, 2009 – Subject to Change

9:00 am – 10:15 am – Dror Sinai – Introduction to Tar & Bendir

BREAK – 15″

10:30 am – 11:45 am – Houman Pourmehdi – Techniques & Rhythms of Persian Daf

BREAK – 15″

LUNCH on own – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

1:00 pm – 2:15 pm – N. Scott Robinson – Modern Bodhran Techniques

BREAK – 15″

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm – Brad Dutz – Pandeiro Techniques & Rhythms

BREAK – 15″

4:15 pm – 5:45 pm – Randy Gloss – Kanjira Techniques

BREAK – 15″

DINNER on own – 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Concert:

Oct. 17, 2009 – Concert – 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Doors open: 7:30 pm

(Open to the public – $15.00 at door – cash only)

Featuring

Hands On’semble (Randy Gloss, Austin Wrinkle & Andrew Grueschow),

Houman Pourmehdi,

K. S. Resmi (Carnatic Vocals) & N. Scott Robinson,

Dror Sinai,

Miranda Rondeau,

Brad Dutz

NAFDA North 2 – Cooperman Frame Drum Festival

October 2-3, 2009 – Brattleboro, Vermont, USA

Featuring artists from Canada, Brazil, India and USA

$100.00 (US) – all-inclusive for 5 workshops & 2 concerts & tour of Cooperman factory
(lodging, travel & meals not included)

INFO – http://www.nafda1.com/nafdanorth.php

RESERVATIONS: nafda1@gmail.com

Oct. 2 – 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – LOCATION #1

Tour of Cooperman Factory in Bellows Falls, Vermont, USA

Show up at this address for Cooperman Factory Tour:

1007 Route 121
Bellows Falls, Vermont 05101 USA

9:00 pm – Meet & Greet / Jam Session – LOCATION #2

featuring all artists & special guests, open to all attendees

The Loft
72 Cotton Mill Hill, 2nd Floor – Studio A-209
Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 USA

Workshops: Oct. 3, 2009 – 9:00 am – 6:00 pm – LOCATION #3

The Loft
72 Cotton Mill Hill, 2nd Floor – Studio A-209
Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 USA

Attendees Pick Five Workshops – One from each session

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Todd Roach – INTRO – Frame Drum Compositions

N. Scott Robinson – INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED – Riqq Techniques

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Todd Roach – INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED – Frame Drum Compositions

N. Scott Robinson – INTRO – Riqq Techniques

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – LUNCH ON OWN

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Patrick Graham – INTRO – Mediterr-Asian Tambourine Techniques

Marcus Santos – INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED – Pandeiro Techniques

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Patrick Graham – INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED – Mediterr-Asian Tambourine Techniques

Marcus Santos – INTRO – Pandeiro Techniques

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm – Break

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm – All attendees

Matt Kilmer – INTRO/INTERMEDIATE – Lap Style / Bodhran Techniques

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Dinner on own – Attendees

(Artist soundcheck from 6:15 pm – 7:15 pm in VT Jazz Center)

Concert:

Vermont Jazz Center

72 Cotton Mill Hill, 2nd Floor – Studio 222
Brattleboro, Vermont 05301 USA

Oct. 3 – Concert – 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Doors open at 7:30 pm

(Open to the public – ticket required – $12.00)

Featuring

Marcus Santos, Todd Roach, N. Scott Robinson, Matt Kilmer, Patrick Graham

with guest musicians: Mac Ritchey (oud), K. S. Resmi (Carnatic vocals),

Steáfán Hannigan (Irish bodhrán), Josh Daly (riqq) and Kevin Willingham (riqq)

From Yousif Sheronick.

Hello Frame Drummers,
I am planning on holding weekly group frame drum classes on Saturday afternoons and want to see who might be interested. I live in the New York City area (Westchester County). 15 minutes from the George Washington Bridge. It’s convenient by car or Metro North Railroad from Grand Central. The classes would be 1 1/2 hours at a cost of $25 or $30 depending on the enrollment. We would work on tar, riq and bodhran (lap style). It would be a culmination of my playing styles which include Middle Eastern, Glen Velez method and some South Indian. I’m also open to working on dumbek and basic pandeiro and kanjira. Please email if you are interested and let me know what time on Saturday afternoons work for you. Please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested. Feel free to email back with any questions. Hope you are all having a wonderful summer.

Regards,

Yousif Sheronick

www.yousifsheronick .com

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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