Free Children's Drum Workshop

When:
Saturday, Oct 22, 2016 10:00a -
12:00p

Where:
Endicott World Music Room
265 Massachusetts Avenue, N52-199
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Kid Friendly, Performing Arts

Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-childrens-drum-workshop-tickets-28663424073

Join MIT's Lamine Touré for a children's workshop on creating drums from found objects! Free to the public; open to children ages 6-12 (each child must be accompanied by a grownup; no drop-offs allowed).


Reservations are required: RSVP here.


Please bring any household items you think might make a good drum: metal cans, buckets, cardboard tubes, yogurt tubs, anything that strikes your percussionist fancy!


The drum-making workshop will be followed by a short drum lesson on real sabar drums from Senegal, West Africa!


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Born into a family of sabar drummers and director of Rambax, MIT's Senegalese Drum Ensemble, Lamine Touré has been drumming and dancing since the age of four. He is one of Senegal’s leading percussionists. Touré launched his career with Mapenda Seck in 1995, followed by a fruitful career from 1997-2001 with Nder et le Setsima Group. As Nder’s percussionist, Touré toured extensively within Senegal and throughout Europe and North America, with performances at Bercy (Paris), the Barbican Center (London), the Festival International de Jazz (Montréal) and Central Park Summerstage (New York). In May 2005, he co-wrote a pioneering composition with Evan Ziporyn entitled Sabar Gong for sabar drums and Balinese gamelan, premiered at the Inauguration of Pres. Hockfield. In 2010, Touré’s excellence in teaching earned him a SHASS Levitan Teaching Prize. Touré is also the founder and leader of Group Saloum, a Boston-based Afropop band that fuses Senegalese mbalax with elements of jazz, funk, reggae and Afrobeat. He teaches sabar drumming and dance classes in the Boston area.

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