Drum & Dance Saturday, Cambridge, MA

Drum and Dance Saturday - Cambridge Ma.

Drum and Dance Saturday is an evening of open drumming and dancing. Everyone is welcome!

This is the oldest and largest drum circle in the area. It is held on the first Saturday of the month, from 8:00PM to 11:30PM at the First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA.

Here's a photo

Admission $8 at the door. Children 12 and under free.

For more information, contact Earth Drum Council at (978) 371-2502

Growing Drum Circle - 4th Sat. of the month - 7:00pm

Send an email to: slcwest@charter.net with the subject ADD TO DRUM LIST to be added to an email reminder list for each circle date/time.

Directions:

Drum circle, in Framingham, MA
Please join us and help celebrate community drumming!

Scheduled for the first Sunday of each month.

To cover our rental costs there will be a $5 per person charge. Whenever we have a three month cushion the next circle will be free.

Plymouth Church
87 Edgell Road
Framingham, MA

Behind the Plymouth Church (follow the driveway, clockwise, all the way around the church as far as a car can go). Go to the website below for details.

Easy acess via rte 9 or mass Pike and rte 30/Natick exit.
Click the location-link for directions.

Information on the drum circle will be listed at http://drummingjohn.tripod.com.

Cape Ann YMCA, Gloucester

Every Sunday - 11 AM

Drum and Dance led by Mamadou Diop.

Emphasis on community, celebration, spirituality.

Through for the Summer. Please join us in the Fall.

Sacred Drumming Circle
3rd Friday of every month
7:00 - 8:30 pm

First Parish Cambridge
Unitarian Universalist
3 Church Street
Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA

Meets upstairs, enter on Church St. entrance, ring bell if needed to get in.

This is drumming and other music making as a spiritual activity. The circle includes elements of pagan or earth-centered ritual. All are welcome; please be respectful. Melodic instruments are generally not used. There are lots of percussive instruments in the center to share. Before using any instruments not in the center, please ask permission from the person it appears to belong to. We do not follow proscribed rhythms but interact with each other to create beautiful spontaneity. Play with an open ear and mind.
Blessed Be!

Amherst Drum & Dance Friday

COMMUNITY DRUM CIRCLE

COME DRUM AND DANCE!
FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 2003
AND EVERY 1ST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH

8:30-11:30 PM
MUNSON LIBRARY, SOUTH AMHERST
ADMISSION $5

Sponsored by the Ritual Arts Collective
info at: www.ritualarts.org
Hope to see you there!

MILFORD DRUMMING CIRCLE

Date: first Thursday of every month (unless otherwise specified in an email)
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Where: First Unitarian Universalist Church of Milford, 23 Pine Street
Church phone: 508-473-3589
Church website: http://iointernet.com/uuchurch

Contact for more information:
Dave Curry 508-278-3252 dmcurry@gis.net
Send him an email to get on the announcement list.

Directions from 495:
Take exit 19 onto route 109 west
Pass Dunkin Donuts #1 on your left
Route 109 merges with route 16, so bear left towards Milford downtown
Pass Dunkin Donuts #2 on your right and the Town Hall on your left
Go through a light, and at the next light, you should see Dunkin Donuts #3 across from you, the UU church is right behind the Dunkin Donuts

Please. As many of you know, some of us in The DrumConnection travel yearly to Guinea, West Africa. Conditions are much worse than earlier years. In the past few years, I personally have seen the disease and death and felt the pain of the people there. Two days after my birthday, this story comes to me to keep me focused on the work we need to do there. Remember... the music of the drums most of you play comes from West Africa. Once again, this year, I will be traveling back to Africa to be a part of the music, dance and song. But I will also be a part of the poverty and the desperation. I hope that many of my friends will still be alive.

I have decided to have a fund raiser next weekend Saturday, November 18th at The DrumConnection Studios, Arlington, MA USA We are planning a drum jam, I will teach a few new rhythms and facilitate the event. I will also show some of my film footage of recent trips highlighting the beautiful and intense music of Guinea. We will celebrate Famoudou Konate, Mamady Keita, Wadaba Kourouma.

Click Here

to view photo album.

Please plan on joining us if you can. All money raised by this event will go directly to efforts in Africa to keep people alive. We need you and it will be good to see how life there really is. I’m sure there are many parts of this world where we think that things are one way, but they are not. Guinea is a prime example. I know this place.

Bring your drums, rattles, dununs, bells and we’ll make it a pot-luck. Maybe some classes can prepare a few rhythms to perform. Wine and cheese/crackers will be served.

Benefit Circle, Boston Community Action for Guinea
Saturday, November 18, 2006
Noon – 5PM

The DrumConnection Workshop Space
The Gibbs School
Tufts Street
Arlington, MA 02474
781-316-8068

Please read. Please share with others.

(Doctors, drug companies: I need help with collecting broad spectrum antibiotics for my trip. All help and legal assistance in this endeavor appreciated.)

WEST AFRICA: Still the worst place in the world

© Nicholas Reader/IRIN

? Dirty water and lack of toilets kill more people than war, in West Africa

DAKAR, 10 Nov 2006 (IRIN) - West Africa is yet again at the bottom of this year's United Nations' human development index, in part because so many of the region's countries lack access to water and sanitation.

"This is a crisis that is holding back human progress, consigning large segments of humanity to lives of poverty, vulnerability and insecurity," according to the 2006 human development report titled 'Beyond scarcity: Power, poverty and the global water crisis'.

"The crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns," it said.

The report found that water access problems in sub-Saharan Africa slash five percent off Gross Domestic Product (GDP) annually, "far more than the region receives in aid." It added that about half the girls in Sub-Saharan Africa who drop out of school do so because of poor water and sanitation facilities.

An estimated 1.8 million children around the world die from diarrhea that could be prevented with access to clean water and a toilet, while almost 50 percent of all people in developing countries suffer from related health problems.

The worst off country in Africa is oil-rich Equatorial Guinea where 57 percent of the population do not have access to clean water, despite the country achieving around 16 percent GDP growth this year, according to the IMF. It is followed by Niger; then Mali, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Burkina Faso.

All those countries are at the bottom of the report's overall Human Development Index (HDI), which also measures education, life expectancy, GDP and other indicators.

For Niger -- which is at the absolute bottom of the HDI list, where 54 percent of the population do not have access to water -- the problem has become an emergency, according to the country director of Oxfam Charles Mampusu.

"People are so desperate for water that after rains many go out and collect water that is stagnant," he said, adding that lack of rain is also at the center of the country's food security and malnutrition problems.

"It only rains a maximum for three month and every year the millet [Niger's staple] soon starts running out," Mampusu said.

The report said that the problem is solvable as there is enough water in the world to meet human needs for consumption, agriculture and industry. "These shortages and environmental stresses do not reflect absolute scarcity - but almost always come about through poor policy decisions," the report said.

To resolve the problem it called on leaders of the G8 to take the lead in a new global action plan "to focus fragmented international efforts to mobilize resources and galvanize political action by putting water and sanitation front and centre on the development agenda."

The estimated cost of US $10 billion is "just five days" worth of global military spending and less than half what rich countries spend each year on mineral water," the report noted.

Lead author of the report Kevin Watkins said, "When it comes to water and sanitation, the world suffers from a surplus of conference activity and a deficit of credible action. Either we take concerted action now to bring clean water and sanitation to the world's poor, or we consign millions of people to lives of avoidable poverty, poor health and diminished opportunities."

This Friday night.... put it in your datebook...

New Year Celebration Circle!

Celebrate the New Year with The DrumConnection at The DrumRoom

A GREAT chance to meet up with a whole bunch of drummers from our vibrant community here, in the New England Area. If you'd like to celebrate the Winter Solstice in rhythm, please come join us on Friday for a night of drumming fun. Please bring a dish to share and check out our beautiful facilities. Bring your drum too! A perfect way to ring in the New Year, reduce stress and get into the celebratory mood.

No Drum? Drums will be supplied for free.

12/28/2007

7-9:00 PM

The DrumRoom
50 Tufts Street
Arlington, MA 02474

All levels invited!

617-686-6080 if you get lost or stolen!

No RSVP necessary. Just come! Easy parking on the street - both sides.

$10 donation for Guinea, West Africa

Directions:

Click Here for more info.

Monday, April 21, 2008

9AM - 1PM

Bring a folding chair, your drum, a light jacket, hat and some water. Maybe some cash as there are vendors next to us.

What you need is a willingness to bring some goodwill and encouragement to the runners in this years marathon. Beginners are totally welcome! ALL drummers encouraged.

Here are some details:

THIS YEAR the marathon starts two hours earlier!!

Plan to arrive around 9:30 to 10:30AM and be ready to drum by 11:00 AM.

From past expereience we find the Newton road barriers are usually set around 10:00-10:30AM.
Life is easier if you get there before the roadblocks!

If you arrive early, you can park on a side street close to the event.
Easy parking, no crowds if you are early.
Food and facilities available.
Allow for some delays due to traffic.

If you do encounter a roadblock, close to the destination, go a block or two past the roadblock
and use the more or less parallel local roads which should lead back to Chestnut St. intersection.

One example is the entry to Chestnut St. from Beacon St.
If you find Chestnut St. blocked, simply go on Beacon towards Newton Centre and take the first road
to your left. After a block, you will be able to turn left and get to Chestnut St. :)
Look at a map of the area and you will see other ways to circumvent roadblocks.


WHAT WE DO...

The Wise Drummer gets there really early. Park right next to the spot. Set up your drums and folding chairs.
Have some cold water handy. Relax in the shade, read a book and all the marathon-venue stress is avoided!!


Driving Instructions

There are many ways to get to our drumming spot,
Commonwealth and Chestnut, in Newton.

Here is one way.
- Rte 128 to rte 9 exit - towards Boston
- On rte 9, very soon, you can take a gradual fork-exit towards Chestnut St.
- Left on Chestnut St.
- About 1/4 mile to Chestnut and Beacon St.
- If you are late, there may be a roadblock on Chestnut at Beacon. OK. Just go right on Beacon one block.
- Left on first road, then a block to next left and you are back on Chestnut!!
- On Chestnut St., from Beacon, go about 1/4 mile to our drumming spot. Park anywhere on side streets!!


Look at a map view and this will feel quite simple. :)

See you there!!

Directions to our marathon spot.

Click here for PHOTOS.

On Saturday, June 21st, we're meeting for our Monthly drum circle in Arlington, MA

I hope you can join us! No experience necessary. Drums provided or bring your own.

7:00PM -9:00PM

50 Tufts Street

Arlington, MA 02474

$10.-

Click Here

to join our Drum Circle Meetup Group and RSVP!