2. Open House for Women Drummers with Amelia Pedroso as guest of honor. Light refreshments will be served and a love offering (small donation for Amelia) is requested. Tuesday, March 21, 6:30-8:30 pm at the home of Nana Korantemaa Ayeboafo, 1730 N. 27th St. between Cecil B. Moore and Montgomery. This event begins Nana's class series for women drummers.

3. Song Lecture-Demonstration & Workshop, featuring Peache Jarman, John Wilkie, & Kenneth Fauntleroy on batá drums. Saturday March 25, 4:30-6 pm at AMLA (Asociación de Músicos Latino-Americanos), on 6th St. between Lehigh & Somerset in North Philadelphia. $10.

4. In conjunction with a current Cuban art exhibit, "Hidden Images," co-sponsored by several local groups, Amelia will perform with Cambio Libre at Brandywine Workshop, Sunday March 26, 3-5:30 pm. 730 S. Broad St. (Broad & Fitzwater) in South Philadelphia. Free admission.

Amelia is available for private and small group classes, and private dilogun consultations, March 20-27 in Philadelphia.

Aficionados of AfroCuban music will remember Pedroso's first trip to Portland in 1994 when she performed with the famous Lazaro Ros at Club Key Largo and accompanied master dance classes at Portland State University. Pedroso broke ground into a field formerly denied to women, as the first woman to receive international recognition as a drummer of AfroCuban ritual music. She has also stunned listeners with her powerful singing voice on numerous recordings including "Santisimo" with Puntilla and "Ilu Aña" with Regino Jimenez.

Pedroso and Romero will play and sing with The Mambo Queens, a popular local group who last week entranced an audience of 800 at the Tualatin Commons with their lively show of AfroCuban rhythms. The eleven-member female percussion and singing group, headed by Cuban-born Virginia Lopez, includes an international cast from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Panama, and the United States, and is enhanced by five guest dancers including Habiba Addo from Ghana. The repertory includes sacred music from the Yoruba tradition rendered on the bata drums, AfroCuban rumbas, a lively comparsa that invites the audience to join in the dancing, and music from the Congolese tradition in Cuba.

The show begins Fri July 30th at 7 p.m. at La Rumba Restaurant located at 130 NW Third and Davis. Admission $5-15 Limited seating. Call 238-2465 for info.

On Saturday, July 31, Amelia Pedroso will lead several classes:

1. Song class from 10:30a.m. to 12 Noon.

2. All levels drumming class 1:30 to 3pm

3. Advance drumming class 3:30 pm to 5:00pm

The cost of each class is $20.00

The location of the classes is 4225 SE Harrison St. Portland

Amelia will be teaching drum classes here on Aug. 20 and 21

The Catskill Mountain Womyn's World Drum and Percussion Happen¹n , August 19-22, will run from THURSDAY 3pm through SUNDAY 3pm at Elat Chayyim (Tree of Life) Center for Healing and Renewal located in Accord, New York. Elat Chayyim is a beautiful and comfortable retreat facility with full view of the mountains.

"The Happen'n" is a women and girls only multi-cultural gathering. We expect to welcome 200 women to experience the uplifting and inspiring presentations of our very talented staff of teachers. Explore rhythmic technique and musical styles of the Djembe, Conga, Surdo, Frame Drum, Steel Drum, Shekere, Taiko and Stick Drumming. Develop a deeper sense of the traditional styles of West African, Brazilian, Afro-Caribbean, Native American, Japanese, and other cultural rhythms. Explore Deep Listening, Movement Meditation, Dance, Improvisation, Instrument Building, and Women's Drumming Traditions. Other Happen¹n features for '99 include a Blessing of the Drum Ceremony based on the traditions of the Candomble, a Purification Lodge led by Mohawk teacher Rainbow Weaver, the Marketplace, Exhibits and Gallery, our wildly popular Saturday Night Showcase (start working on your routines now!), and lots of other surprises. All levels and percussive instruments are welcome. 

Scholarship Fund : You can make a tax deductible contribution to help cover the cost of participation of low income and Elder women. A limited number of scholarships / partial assistance grants are available to individuals who show financial need. If you are interested in applying for Scholarship assistance, send in the Registration form with a letter of request for a Scholarship application by May l5th.

Teachers: * Edwina Lee Tyler * Ubaka Hill * Phyllis Bethel * Caru Thompson *

* Emilia Biancardi & Geralyn Burke * Pauline Oliveros * Leaf Miller *

Elaine Fong * * Cathy Bishop-Thielke * Fre Atlast * Rainbow Weaver * White

Feather * * Emily Lanxner * Judith Muldoon * Eliza Usher *

Registration/Accommodations Fees:

Accommodations Before July 1st / After July 1st :

* Quad (4 women per room) $325.00 / $350.00

* Double (2 women per room) $350.00/ $375.00

* Single (1 womyn) $495.00 / $525.00

* Camping (very limited) $275.00/ $300.00

* Commuter (all four days) $275.00 / $300.00

* Day Rates (Fri & Sat only) $100 per day / $115.00 per day

* Children/Young Adult (ages 10-18) $200.00/ $225.00

The per-woman fee includes all workshops, showcases, activities and use ofrecreational facilities, 3 vegetarian/Kosher meals daily, indoor or outdoor accommodations, pool, and hot tub. Accommodations do not apply to Day Rates or Commuter Rates. Cancellations will be charged $50.00 before August 1st. After August 1st, deposits are not refundable unless we can fill your room.

Please make Check or Money Order Payable to: THE ARTS COMMUNITY

* Mail Registration and Check/MO To: Drum Central
P0 Box 34 Woodstock, NY 12498

After July 1, 1999 Money Orders accepted only

For more information and questions: Drum Central 914-247-0398 email:wwdrum@ulster.net

Drum Central is a project of The Arts Community. Please fill- in and return Registration Form below

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Drum Central Vision Statement

Drum Central is dedicated to the advancement of women's participation inthe ancient and sacred rite of drumming. We support the expression of this tradition in innovative, diverse and unifying ways, as well as the creation of a personal and community based art form, inclusive to women all around the world. 

The Catskill Mountain Womyn's World Drum & Percussion Happen'n is our initial visionary action. We have assembled some of the most effective women teachers/musicians and visionaries to create a diverse cultural program of world drumming and percussion styles from the sacred to the secular.

By providing a creative environment, women will learn the skills needed to form similar local "Happen'ns", drum councils, healing circles and other events in their own communities. The overall focus of Drum Central is to further the cultural evolution of a women's drumming tradition in the United States/North America.

Co-Producers: Leaf Miller - Free At last

Focus Of Intent

*Exploration of Women's Drumming Traditions

*Rhythmic Vocabulary and Practice Exercises

*Developing and Strenghtening Technique for Hand and Stick Drumming

*Drum and Dance

*Performance Showcases

*Creating and Maintaining Community Drum Councils/Circles

*Training for Teachers

*Ritual, Ceremony and Vibrational Healing

*Drumming in Creative Collaboration

*Deep Listening Sensitivity

*Creating Authentic Drum & Percussion Music

*Instrument Making, Maintenance and Repair

*Rhythm and Time Sensibility

*Exploration of Various Drums and Percussive Instruments From World

Cultures

*Health of the Mind, Body, and Spirit

*Documention, Preservation and Presentations

Dates, times and addresses as follows:

Fiesta de Bata, London, Sun 21st March 6pm

The Grosvenor
17 Sydney Road, London SW9

Information: 0961 391 964

  Weekend event in Manchester

Fri 26th Formal performance of song, drum and dance for the Orisha, 8pm

Sat 27th Afternoon workshops and Fiesta de Bata, 2-5pm; 8pm The Green Room

54-56 Whitworth Street West Manchester M1 5WW Box Office: 0161 950 5900

Formal performance of Orisha song,etc. London, Tue 30th 8pm

The Tabernacle
Powis Square, London W11 2AY

 The CD <Lotz Of Music In Havana - Blues For Yemayá> is released!

Via Records 9920592

 
- The music involves a fusion of religious Afro-Cuban folklore music with European Jazz.

- Recorded in April 1997 at the ICAIC studio in Havana, Cuba!

- Participants are the quintet <Lotz Of Music> of flautist Mark Alban Lotz and Cuban soloists like Miguel Anga Diaz, Amelia Pedroso, Jose Pilar Suarez and many others. (Known through their work with Irakere, Conjunto Folklorico National, Profundo Raices and Clave y Guaguanco)

- The jazzy interpretations of the songs of praise to the African Yoruba gods of the Cuban Santería religion provide a different look at Latin Music.

- The 2CD box -Le Coq Rouge / Lotz Of Music Meets Bata Drums- already is very successful. The result are performances at festivals like the Percuba Festival in Havana and the North Sea Jazz Festival at the Hague, The Netherlands.

- Radio stations, from Australia to Miami, still give enthusiastic attention to <Le Coq Rouge> . (In June <Le Coq Rouge> no.1 on WEFT, Illinois!) Here the successor!

- Marketing and distribution by Via Records : Via Records, P.B. 4026, 1200 LA Hilversum, The Netherlands; phone: +31-35-6422338, fax: +31-35-6420880

- More information, Sound files, Photo¹s, CV¹s etc. at internet web site <http://www.xs4all.nl/~lotz/>

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mark alban lotz