Tag: brasilian

  • One Style Or Different Drumming Styles? It’s All Music.

    One Style Or Different Drumming Styles? It’s All Music.


    There are several different ways for serious students to learn and to study traditional and folkloric drumming from other countries. Today I am going to talk about two different approaches, completely different and both are valid in my book. We can try to be universal, find commonality and study the underlying principles and basic structures… Read More »

  • beautiful clouds and sunsets from my travels abroad and coming back home


    clouds, sunsets and world music and world percussion by Barababaja Percussion Ensemble of the BIg Island and SF, California. Vocals (part one) by Zahira and part two by Boaz Hashimoto Martin. Photos by Michael Pluznick. Percussion by Jesse Seymour and Michael Pluznick. Read More »

  • Memorial Day Weekend in Northern California: Carnaval 2010 and Mosswood Park, Oakland!


    Memorial Day weekend was beautiful and truly “memorial” with Carnaval 2010 in San Francisco  and also the well attended and amazing West African, Afro Cuban, Ewe (Ghana) and Brasilian (Brazilian) drum and dance party in Mosswood  Park, Oakland , California! [smooth=id:42;] Read More »

  • Carnaval in San Francisco, California May 2010


    Carnival in San Francisco, California May 2010 San Francisco’s Carnaval blossomed from its inception in Precita Park in the Mission District 32 years ago.  Its growth and development is attributable to the passion of its founding members who longed for the traditional Carnaval celebrations of their native homelands. Those founding members were composed of people… Read More »

  • Bira teaches Oxun song class, song lesson in Bahia , Brasil


    http://www.myspace.com/rhyt… Bira the young drum, dance and song master and teacher teaches Oxun song at our Brasilian drum and dance class in Pelerinio district of Bahia , Brasil. Read More »

  • 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 it features Brazilian drum and dance with Boaz Hashimoto Martin playing lead drum *(quinto) or solo. Read More »

  • Barabajaba World Percussion Ensemble with Yoga Beach Slide Show


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ9NgDZQgSo Barabajaba World Percussion Ensmeble:  from the new CD, “Rise UP’ produced by Michael Pluznick with co composer percussion master Jesse Seymour from the Big Island of Hawaii. This tune is entitled, “Marineiro” and was filmed at the legenday and very beautiful Yoga Beach on Koh Samui  Island, Thailand, World Percussion and Music chants on… Read More »

  • ‘Chandra Shekar’ By Barabajaba Percussion Ensemble Hawaii


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3irv2xaal4 This is a music video by the Barabajaba Percussion Ensemble from Big Island of Hawaii. Read More »

Michael Pluznick