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African Drumming

Locality: St Kilda, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 9525 3073

Address: 252 St Kilda Road 3182 St Kilda, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.africandrumming.com.au

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25.01.2022 HOW A DJEMBE IS MADE Carving a quality djembe takes experience, skill, strength and patience. An authentic West African djembe is hand carved with plenty of elbow grease from a single log of wood (the denser the better), and then skinned with a hide that is tensioned by a system of rings and rope. The finished drum is the result of the labours of several specialised and experienced craftspeople.

25.01.2022 Our annual TRIBALISM event is going ahead this summer at Catani Gardens!!! Our community classes will come together to perform their ensembles’ traditional and contemporary West African rhythms. But that's not all folks! We'll have non-stop jams as well - everyone is welcome! Just BYO djembe, chair, rug, picnic etc. This is a FREE event, but please note as per government restrictions there will be a limit of 50 people for this event. See you on Sunday December 13th @ 1:30pm! ... https://fb.me/e/1I3VCtAmo

24.01.2022 Christmas is just around the corner and we've got your gift list sorted! Djembes Happy drums Handpans Gift vouchers Kid instruments Great package deals Use the promo code "santa" at chckout when you spend $40 and over to receive a FREE kiss kass shaker! https://www.africandrumming.com.au/sh...

24.01.2022 Respect to NIMBAYA - The Women's Drum and Dance Company of Guinea. First all-female percussion group to tour the world!

22.01.2022 REGIONAL VARIATIONS The djembe is an ever-evolving instrument. Different regions and carvers have their own quintessential take on the drum, influenced by the styles of the time, local timbers, a desire for certain sound qualities, and by the innovation of drum makers. Here are the typical styles found in modern West Africa.

22.01.2022 2nd of our 3 part series in African Music focuses on African music traditions and styles and how the African diaspora has influneced music around thre globe

19.01.2022 Welcome to our Teachers Video Hub! Full of resources, rhythm games, songs and musical exercises for all your African Drumming facilitation needs! We update the hub with fresh content every month and are always open to requests ... Check out our content here: https://wayopay.com/teacher-video-hub

18.01.2022 A Maasai ceremony in Kenya. Maasai music traditionally consists of rhythms provided by a chorus of vocalists singing harmonies while a song leader, or olaranyani, sings the melody. Both singing and dancing sometimes occur around manyattas, and involve flirting. Young men will form a line and chant rhythmically, "Oooooh-yah", with a growl and staccato cough along with the thrust and withdrawal of their lower bodies. Girls stand in front of the men and make the same pelvis lunges while singing a high dying fall of "Oiiiyo..yo" in counterpoint to the men. Although bodies come in close proximity, they do not touch

18.01.2022 The Click Song!!!! ....by the mighty Miriam Makeba

17.01.2022 Brass and wind have been a feature of West African contemporary music in recent times. From Ghana to Benin, you'll often find Big Band orchestral sounds and arrangements backed by driving polyrhythms ... the perfect uplifting Sunday music!

15.01.2022 Strings of the World - how many of these instruments have originated in Africa!?

10.01.2022 DJEMBE ANATOMY Technically speaking, the djembe is a member of the membranophone family of musical instruments, consisting of a wooden shell covered by a membrane. The dimensions and ratios of the bowl and pipe affect the way sound resonates. A well carved shell is the primary factor in tonal quality, followed closely by the hide it's finished with.

09.01.2022 The incredible Toelegu Pan Pipers performing at Uepi Island in the western province of the Solomon Islands. Via twitter.com/dusttodigital

09.01.2022 This is the Akan drum the earliest African-American object in the British Museum. It was made over 300 years ago in the Akan region of Ghana, West Africa. It’s thought the drum travelled across the Atlantic aboard a slave ship, but it’s not known for sure. Drums were played during these journeys and captives were forced to dance for exercise in order to keep them healthier amid the horrendous conditions for labour on slave plantations. In North America, drums were confiscated and banned as part of the forced suppression of enslaved Africans and their culture. Around 1730, the drum was acquired by a Reverend Clerk in Virginia then a British colony and now a state in the USA and it then passed into the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and then to the British Museum.

07.01.2022 Naoto is from Japan and has loved djembe for a few years now. He'd been playing on a mahogany djembe from Indonesia with a thin skin and was looking for something with more warmth but a bit of pop in the top end. Then he found this 13" lenke djembe from Guinea "Cruise Control" ...suffice to say he can't wait to get down to the St Kilda jam by the beach on a Thursday and get her cruising!

05.01.2022 Check out Black Haromny, an Afro Surinamese group based in Amsterdam. The rythms and songs are from the Luangu spirit. www.blackharmony.nl

03.01.2022 Mikey Has surrounded himself with 7 soulful Steel tongue drums and is blissing out in a pool of melody! Made from heavy gauge steel and in perfect pitch, they have long sustain and beautiful harmonies. They have a similar feel to handpans and other mystical instruments. https://www.africandrumming.com.au//handpans-/happy-drums/

02.01.2022 More beautiful sounds from the inimitable Dobet Gnahoré.

02.01.2022 Did you know our online shop stocks the largest range of African percussion ANYWHERE!!! Awesome packages for Adults & Kids Plus we have loads of other cool instruments from across the globe. Check us out here: https://www.africandrumming.com.au/shop/the-ad-shop/

01.01.2022 Oliver Mobeli is a musician and puppeteer from Central African Republic. Check out this beautiful video from 2017. Via twitter.com/dusttodigital