Month: March 2010
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SF Bay Area and Marin: Golden Gate and nature photos by Michael P
[smooth=id:37;] The tremendous beauty of the Bay Area, San Francisco and Marin County, California, USA photos 2010 by Michael Pluznick Read More »
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Barabajaba World Percussion Ensemble
[smooth=id:36;] The Barabajaba Percussion Ensemble and drumming collective from the Big Island of Hawaaii performs live with members and friends all around the world, too! Barabajaba’s music is a fusion and hybrid of Afro Cuban, west African, Afro Haitian, Brasilian and Indian world music and drumming. The new CD “Rise Up” is available on I… Read More »
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Barabajaba Live in Puna: “Maracatu”: Brazil meets Hawaaii!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ0nxASq1aY http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/barabajaba This video is: Barabajaba Live in Puna: “Maracatu” w/Lisa Dixon and her Brasilian dance group. Taken at a performance @ Kalani resort in Puna (Pahoa) Hawaii and features Brazilian drum and dance with Boaz Hashimoto Martin playing lead drum *(quinto) or solo. Read More »
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A beautiful drum and dance party at Hadley Louden’s in Oakland 3-21-10
[smooth=id:35;] A good time was had by all at Hadley Louden’s drum and dance party in Oakland California 3-21-10! Old friends from all over the Bay Area attended! There was Rumba outside and world music of all sorts inside, too! Hadley Louden is a legendary world music and bay area percussionist, pianist and world music… Read More »
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Mali and Guinea West Africa trip photos of musicians, dancers and drummers
[smooth=id:2]; I took these photos on my two trips to Mali and Guinea, West Africa where I studied traditional djembe, drumming, music, culture and African music and dance. Drummers photos feature my teachers Aruna, Brulye and Siaka. Guinea photos at the late great Komoko Sano’s home and compound. Read More »
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West African drummers and dancers perform! Part #2 Djembe, dunun, balaphone and dance.
[smooth=id:33;] West African drummer and dancer photos from live performances of Les Percussions Melenke (Bolokada Conde’s troupe in Bay Area of California) and dance classes featuring master djembe drummer and djembe fola Bolokada Conde, Nabe Bangoura (dance master teacher) and more! West African drummer and dancer photos from live performances and dance classes featuring master… Read More »
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Influential friends, african related drummers and dancers in my world
[smooth=id:32;height:640; width:640;] Photos of many friends and people I have learned from and studied with including the late Komoko Sano, Bolokada Conde and Karamba Diabate Read More »
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Back in the Bay Area of Northern California, cold but beautiful!
Hi everyone. I am back from my trip to Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. It was a great trip visitng lot’s of beautiful places, meeting some very friendly people, seeing some new temples, beautiful scenery and great weather, too! I was very lucky. I really enjoyed going to all the temples and sacred sites in Asia.… Read More »
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Less is more!
-Fear less, hope more. Whine less, breathe more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more. Trip less, dance more…… Read More »
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mysterious quote
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.~Albert Einstein Read More »
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Pandeiro Demonstration by Maestro (master drummer) Bira in Bahia Brasil
Master Bira our folkloric Brasilian drum, dance, and song teacher performs authentic Brazilian rhythms and demonstrates proper technique for pandeiro at school in Bahia Brasil. Read More »
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“Mali Grand Master” djembe class with Brulye and Aruna: Mendiani
http://www.earthcds.com/africa/west/m… Aruna and Brulye teach Michael P Mendiani solo technique at a djembe class at Centre Togola in the Sabalibougou district of Bamako Mali. Music, song, djembe and dunun class and djembe lessons are held here every day of the week. If you want to study djembe in Mali, this is the place to go… Read More »