Date: Sunday, September 30, 2007
Time: 2 - 5 pm. Registration starts at 1:45 pm
Cost: $25 at the door, cash only please
Location: Pacific Arts Center, 10469 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, California, 90025
(a few blocks east from the 405 Freeway, ample street parking)
For more information: rowanstorm@yahoo.com
Details:
- Beginners Welcome !
- Learn essential elements of traditional playing technique for frame drums found
throughout the Middle East and Balkans, including bendir, dayereh, daff and tambourine - Learn to play some basic rhythms for traditional music and dance
- Learn to analyse and understand more deeply the rhythmic structure of music
- For musicians, dancers, and music lovers
- Bring your own frame drum if you have one Variety of drums available for workshop use and purchase with grateful support from Noisy Toys Drum Shop and Cooperman Drum Company
ROWAN STORM has been studying, recording, performing and teaching a wide range of
Middle Eastern percussion instruments for over 25 years throughout the United States,
Central America, Europe, Cyprus, Turkey, Iran and Kurdistan. She has collaborated with
some of the greatest masters of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern music, including Michel
Mirhige Baklouk, Mohammed el-Akkad, Taksim Ensemble, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Necati
Celik, Domna Samiou, Tasia Vera, Yiannis Vasilopoulos, Ross Daly, Djamshid Chemirani,
Khalifeh Rahmeh, Nima Janmohammadi and Lian Ensemble. Since 2000 Rowan has studied
and performed in concert tours with the legendary master of Persian Classical music,
Mohammad Reza Lotfi.
Rowan performs in conservatories, universities, concert halls and broadcasts throughout
the United States, Central America, Europe, Turkey and Cyprus, and ancient amphitheaters
throughout the Mediterranean. Living in Greece and Switzerland since 1993, Rowan is a
leader in the current movement within Greek music and culture of embracing Shared
Oriental heritage. Recently she spent three months traveling alone throughout Iran,
deepening her understanding of Persian Classical music, the role of women in ancient,
sacred percussion traditions, as well as the deep eastern roots of Western culture. For
some of her Iran travels, see her weblog: www.iran-rowanstorm.blogspot.com
Rowan teaches at the week-long Middle East Music and Dance Camp during August in the
magnificent redwood forest of Mendocino, California: www.middleeastcamp.com
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