New accompaniment to SoKo

B S TT S B B S TT S B B S TT S B B S TT S B L R RL R L

New accompaniment to Kakilambe

T S TT SS TT S TT SS TT S TT SS TT S TT SS T

R R RL RL LR R RL RL LR R RL RL LR R RL RL L

T - TONE S - SLAP R - RIGHT HAND L - LEFT HAND

Lorraine Wilson Memorial Party Drum Video

Lorraine Wilson Memorial Pie Party

Last Sunday we had the pleasure of playing drums at Harvest Moon Farms, the residence of drummer David Vana and his late wife Lorraine Wilson. Over 200 people attended this amazing pie party to celebrate the wonderful life of Lorraine Wilson who died earlier this year of cancer.

A big tent was set up and we celebrated Lorraine, the passion behind our drumming group, through the sound of our drums. Burlington Taiko graced us with their powerful beat and then Slyde's bluegrass melodies finished off the evening. We were happy that Stuart Paton, an instructor and performer with Burlington Taiko, joined us on the djembe with two of our rhythms, Soko and Gidambe.

We got to sample over 100 pies, both savory and sweet, and each of us signed a prayer flag for our dear friend Lorraine. The flags were strung up proudly from post to post after we all signed them.

The weather was perfect. And even when it poured later in the evening, it was perfect for preventing the HUGE bonfire from going astray into the fields.

We will always remember with great fondness, our drummer friend, Lorraine Wilson.

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Photo from Art Walk

Saranac Lake Art Walk A Huge Success!

Thursday, June 19th marked the first Saranac Lake ART WALK for the summer season. We were cordially invited to play outdoors in downtown Saranac Lake, NY. It had been raining all morning, but Karen did her usual weather prayer to the Arch Angel Uriel for dry, warm sunny weather and voila! at the appointed time, sun shone! Since last year's ART WALK, we have doubled our repertoire of West African percussion pieces and unvieled several new ones never before done in live performance, including: Marraka Don, SoKo and KuKu #3 (also known as Adirondack KuKu, created by James). This year we were lucky to have one of our Soma Beats dancers, Shir Filler, make an appearance! She encouraged others in the audience to let loose and get groovy with the rhythms! Shir and Karen also performed the dance Djole, created by Soma Beats founder, Johnna MacDougall, who was not able to attend. Video to follow! Stay tuned!