Community/Collegiate Experience
In this segment, you will see recorded segments of the community drum circle, Vitamin D, that I currently facilitate. As the founder of this organization, I have nurtured it from day one and have allowed it to evolve and adapt over time. The organization serves collegiate students,community members, and in the near future, high school students, as an instructional class devoted to West-African percussion and traditional Brazilian rhythms through means of O Passo. The link below will take you to some edited video examples of the group in action. You will also see a video of me working with the Highbridge Voices in a seminar, in which we learned a traditional folk song.
Collegiate/Community Teaching Experience
Below you will see an excerpt from one of the drum circle rehearsals. We work on technique, rhythms such as Cheeva and Ibo, and other concepts. I model using my djembe, and I utilize a trio of Tubanos as an interim-set of djun-djuns. All members are collegiate in this video.
Below is the final performance of the Highbridge Voices performing at a Choral Festival at Westminster Choir College in November 2011. I worked with the choir and taught them, as well as the college students present, 'Seseere eeye', a folk song from the Torres Islands. There is a strong emphasis of the unification of body, voice, and instrument into one extra-musical spectacle.