Save the Date and Register Soon….
For the FIFTH Annual Bumbada Women’s Drumming Weekend 2010!
April 16th-18th, 2010
New Location:
South Mountain YMCA Camp in Wernersville, PA (outside of Reading)
We are excited this year to welcome back Ubaka Hill to our weekend,
to welcome Jaqui MacMillan, Marci Francis, plus some other new drummer faces!
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The Bumbada Women's Drumming Weekend 2010
Come all women drummers, all levels welcome!
The structure of the weekend is a combination of workshop time and open time to drum and be together to honor the spirit of drumming, and the magic of an all-women event.
We will be honored to have Ubaka Hill, Mama Kibibi Ajanku of Sankofa Dance Theater, as well as Jaqui MacMillan of Drum for Joy!, Marci Francis, Tammi Hessen, and other drumming teachers and facilitators.
The weekend is being coordinated by Tammi Hessen, a drummer and teacher out of Lancaster, PA.
General Gist of the Weekend Schedule (subject to change):
• Friday April 16th, Registration 3-5:30pm, we open the event at 6:00pm
• April 17th, a full day and evening of classes/drumming
• April 18th, we will be done at noon, check-out by 2:00pm
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| Workshops |
Workshops include (also subject to change, especially additions):
Beginner Djembe
Intermediate Djembe
Ensemble Workshops (playing as an ensemble)
Shekere Playing
African Dance
Indian Tabla
Dunun playing (stick drums)
Drum Circle/Facilitation
Open Drumming
Make Your Own Sacred Rattle
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| Costs |
There are 3 options available for Bumbadas: full weekend overnight, full weekend commuter, and a Saturday-er only.
Early Bird Registration Price:
Overnights: $279
Commuter: $222
Saturday-er: $155
Regular Registration Price (Between March 14th and April 9th when Registration Closes):
Overnights: $299
Commuter: $239
Saturday-er: $165
We are also hoping to have some women vendors there, selling drums, accessories, etc, and a Massage Therapist to help you relax (cost not included in weekend). For women who attend the weekend and do art of their own, there is an option to vend your items for a nominal fee.
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Ubaka Hill (oo-BAH-ka) - an authentic, energetic performer, composer, songwriter, recording artist, motivational speaker, conference weaver, teacher and facilitator of hand drumming workshops for more than 25 years throughout the United States. Her soul vision and intention is to facilitate and inspire personal transformation, empowerment, healing and joy with music that moves you. www.ubakahill.com
Tammi Hessen is a Lancaster-based drummer who has been studying in the West African hand drum tradition of djembe, and continues to explore and celebrate the nature of the drum as a musical instrument and tool for joy and personal and community healing. She has traveled to Africa to study drumming. Tammi began teaching the Bumbada Women’s drumming classes in Baltimore Maryland in 2003, and the program continues to grow. Bumbada also has a performance group that plays for various events locally. You can contact Tammi directly for more information about the ongoing drumming classes in Baltimore, Lancaster, York, Reading, and Harrisburg Pennsylvania area, or for private lessons.
717.824.9392
or bumbadaweekend@aol.com |
| Top 10 Reasons To Come to the Bumbada Women's Drumming Weekend 2010 |
10. To finally finish your Shekere from the Shekere making workshop last year.
9. The grilled cheese and tomato soup is too hard to pass up.
8. The overnight cabins are beautiful and have such comfortable beds—that is, if you decide to stop drumming and get any sleep.
7. Where else can you shop all weekend and not have to move your car?
6. Where else can you play so many different kinds of drums (besides a drum store)?
5. Drummers—this might be your only opportunity to TAKE a dance class!
4. Don’t worry, your hands will heal up in plenty of time for Memorial Day weekend festivities (or drum circles).
3. Where else in the world would you know that you could find a willing replacement on the heartbeat drum at 3:30am when you have to “go?”
2. Yoga, drumming, dancing, carrying around your drum/shekere/drum stool/purchases, there’s no exercise program better for you.
1. It is really FUN!
The top ten will keep changing!
If you have suggestions for top ten items, email them to bumbadaweekend@aol.com |
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