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Frame Drumming Workshop w/ ROWAN STORM, Aug 29 (California)

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Date & Time: Friday, August 14, 2009 - Saturday, August 29, 2009
11:00 AM
Location: Lotus d'Or Studios
7312 HWY 49
Lotus, CA 95651 view map
More Info: 530-919-3704
Frame Drumming with master Percussionist in Northern CA
Lotus d'Or Studios, Lotus CA 95651
Rowan Storm 11:00am-1: Aug. 29th $30
Rowan Storm is recognized internationally for her command of Middle Eastern percussion instruments and music, singing in several languages, and her Essential Frame Drum Method Workshops and Carpet Concerts. Rowan's unique symmetrical approach to the Frame Drum promotes healing through integration of the two brain hemispheres. With extensive travels throughout Iran, Turkey and the Mediterranean, since 1993 Rowan is based in Greece, where she is a leader in the contemporary movement to embrace shared Oriental heritage. Rowan has performed with some of the greatest masters of Middle Eastern music including Souren Baronian, Necati Çelik, Omar Faruk Tekbilek and Mohammad Reza Lotfi. Her performance and teaching venues include New York City's Lincoln Center, Ross Daly's Labyrinth, Istanbul's Resit Rey Concert Hall, and conservatories, museums and universities throughout the world. Rowan is the only woman on the instrument teaching staff of the Middle East
Music and Dance Camp every August in Mendocino, Ca. Rowan's signature Frame Drum, the Rowan Storm Dayereh, is now featured in the Artist Innovation Series by Cooperman Drum Company: www.cooperman.com/coopermanaiseries.php
Please see www.rowanstorm.com, www.iran-rowanstorm.blogspot.com

The workshop will cover the techniques and topics below:


Essential Frame Drum Method:
- an Introductory Survey of Middle Eastern Frame Drums with Rowan Storm
- no previous experience necessary

In this two-hour workshop you will learn:
1- Essential elements for playing Frame Drums of the Middle East and Mediterranean, including:
- Frame Drums with nothing added
- Frame Drums with jingles: tambourine
- Frame Drums with rings: dayereh and daf

2- Key patterns which are common to many kinds of Middle Eastern percussion instruments

3- Efficient technique which empowers you to play tirelessly for many hours

4- Rhythms from the Middle East and Balkans

- Rowan is pleased to introduce her Signature Frame Drum, the Rowan Storm Dayereh by Cooperman Drum Company, available with a special discount at the workshop:

Rowan Storm Dayereh
Artist Innovation Series from Cooperman Drum Company:
www.cooperman.com/coopermanaiseries.php

- A variety of Frame Drums will be available for use and purchase
- Please bring with you if possible:
. your own Frame Drum
. shaker
. recording device
. notebook and pencils

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