The
Mapuche
are indigenous to Chile. Machi is shaman or shamaness and
Kultrun
is a ceremonial drum.
The Machi "introduces her song" in the Kultrun before stretching the skin to leave her soul in it. She also introduces small sacred objects, like stones, feathers or healing herbs, which make it sound as a rattle.
On the head, they draw different symbols representing the Universe. A cross divides the head into four parts, the vertical line representing the cosmos and the horizontal one the Earth. The intersection is the centre of the World, the sacred place from where the Machi gets in contact with their Gods and ancestors helped by the sound of the Kultrun.
Ulali features
Pura Fe
(Tuscarora),
Soni Moreno
(Mayan, Apache, Yaqui), and
Jennifer Kreisberg
(Tuscarora.)
In 1987, Ulali created an exciting new A Capella sound blending their strong traditional roots with their contemporary musical sensibilities. When they later released their solo album MAHK JCHI, they redefined Native American Music.
Ulali's sound encompasses an array of indigenous music including southeast choral singing (pre-blues and gospel) and pre-Colombian (before the borders) music.
These ladies created an album that seamlessly combined both traditional and contemporary Native American music that has appealed to fans across cultural boundaries. They have built a devoted national and international following attracted to their potent vocal chemistry, unusual harmonies and politically charged songs.
Asani (“rock” in the Cree language), a contemporary Aboriginal women’s a cappella trio from Edmonton, has been captivating audiences with their breathtaking harmonies, their dynamic vocal artistry and their powerful rhythmic style. Carrying with them the traditional influences of First Nations and Metis music accompanied by drums and rattles, their songs resonate with their own blend of traditional vocals infused with the sounds of jazz, folk and blues
Mari Boine is an absolute treasure!
Reclaiming her heritage is a blessed gift. Her music is deep, powerful, and moving. Hear her story with clips of her music
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DAF A large frame drum used in Iran(Persia) that has a series of interlocking chains hooked inside the shell of the frame.
Throughout Kurdistan in Northwestern Iran, there are many spiritual groups whose practices have revolved around the daf since ancient times. Women and men are segregated in their ceremonies, and in most cases the women's groups use the same spaces as the men at different times. Khalifeh Rahmeh is the women's spiritual leader in Baneh, Kurdistan, Iran, and is the only woman within a large geographic area to construct her own khanegah, or meeting place, exclusively for the use of the women's community
Biography and photo given by Rowan Storm who spent time with Khalifeh Rahmeh
Cheikha Rimitti, the legendary rai music star, was known as "the Mother of Rai", who was born in Tessala, a small village deep in the countryside of western Algeria. Cheikha Rimitti has long been a legend to whom all the younger rai singers have owed their freedom of expression as well as their linguistic and moral rebelliousness, not to mention a significant proportion of their repertoire.
Raï (Arabic: ) is a form of folk music, originated in Oran, Algeria from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Spanish, French, African-American and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930's.
Over a 50 year period she recorded over 400 cassettes, 300 singles, 50-something 78rpms and a handful of CDs.
Her final album, 'N'ta Goudami', also made rai history as Cheikha Rimitti, once officially banned in her native Algeria, took the defiant step of recording it at the Boussif studios in the western Algerian seaport of Oran, the city where rai music was born over a century ago.
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Morocco
A Moroccan Womens' Dance and Musical group performs for a party to celebrate the birth of a child. Belly dancing in it's original form is an ancient dance that helps build muscles necessary for childbirth. You are SUPPOSED to have a belly to perform it correctly
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chaabi dial sah Chikhat maroc
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Egypt
Makan -Traditional Egyptian Music
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Paris, France
"THOMAS GOSPEL DERVISHES" myspace - Catherine Braslavsky
"Split the wood, I am there. Turn over a stone, and you will find me"
Text from the Gospel of Thomas in ancient Greek. Music by Joseph Rowe.
Catherine is very much inspired by traditional musics, but her main aim is to compose a music of today. She loves to sing traditional chants (Gregorian, Judeo-Spanish, Arabic and other Mideastern); and she loves to compose, often on ancient poems and prayers, and sometimes on texts written by herself. She loves to explore the energies of different languages (Coptic, ancient Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, Occitan, Spanish...)
Valéria Zeidan and Angélica Leutwiller present a duo of voice and percussion:
Fogueira Das Rosas
Fogueira das Rosas (Rose..s Bonfire) is a concert that brings together the kindness of female voices and the power of the drums, which in a very well elaborated counterpoint gives kindness to the drums and power and strength to the female voices.
The inspiration to this work came from old images found in paintings, sculptures and prints from the pre-Christian period. These images portray women singing and playing all sorts of tambourines as a ritualistic function.
"Our group rises from an experience developed over time, that has seen in dancing, a strong potential, regarding, in the first place, the need for a direct and intuitive communication between participants, then the expressive skill whose story walks together with the history of mankind. Thanks to our acquired experience, we’ve reached the conception of a performance as a moment of exchange and sharing, in which elements of dance, music and chants condition and complete each other being an harmonic and undividable trio.
The common goal is so discovered in the primordial joy of group movement, in the sense of a collective participation, in the creative possibility of a moment of gathering. "
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Pandereta/ Panderoa/ Pandeireta A spanish tambourine played in Spain and Portugal.
The pandeira - historyHere is a site about these drums.
Faltriqueira is an autonomous vocal project raised in Pontedeume (Galicia), which escapes from the rigid tradition and brings new life to songs collected from diverse lands. This video features them playing the Pandeireta.
Their most outstanding feature is the polyphonic arrangement of galician rural village songs as well as songs from other lands, mixing in
synthesizers and acoustic instruments such as fiddle, accordion, darboukas, txalapartas, cellos, and guitar.
Ialma is a group of 5 young women settled in Brussels. These singers have been gathering traditional songs of their ancestors from Galicia (Spain) for quite a few years.
After they released their first a capella cd « Palabras darei », their second one « Marmuladas », where Galician melodies blend with arrangements of Belgian musicians, Ialma carries on with passing on its songs in a style of its own, varying from authentic to modern styles which create some seductive and festive modern music .
BODHRAN
A frame drum traditionally used in Irish pubs played with a double ended stick called a"tipper" It has also, become a respected and versatile instrument in it's own right. There is a wealth of information about the
world of bodhrans @ http://www.bodojo.com/
Originally a rock drummer, Lucy was inspired to take up the bodhran after seeing legendary Irish band De Dannan.Due to Lucys respect for all styles within traditional Irish music, an interest in many other musical genres and technical ability of very high standard, Lucy is one of the most versatile and creative players at the present time.
She is the author of one of the best books on contemporary bodhrán, entitled
The Goat Whackers Guide to Rhythm
This space is dedicated to bringing awareness and visibility to the presence and growing number of women frame drummers, from around the world.
It is dedicated to women frame drummers of the past, present and future.
This space is where drum enthusiasts and those drawn to the sounds of the frame drum can connect, learn, share and be inspired.
This space will be a work in progress, as we make new discoveries of other women frame drummers.
I hope you enjoy the site and find inspiration here. Please make use of the links to follow leads to more information. There is also a resource section at the end of the page.
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Also feel free to join us on facebook, where you can see schedule of events by some of the women frame drum community.
The frame drum is one of the oldest percussion instruments in the world. It is hoop-shaped with a width greater than its depth. Most are circular though square and rectangular drums exist as well.
Originally the drum heads were made from animal skins, like cow (calf), goat, deer, fish or snakes. There are now drum heads made up of synthetic material that have the advantage of staying in tune or are tunable.
There are basically two types of frame drums, those that have jingles or rings and those that do not.
There are frame drums made for the use of mallots or sticks and there are frame drums made for the use of hands and fingers.
This drum is archetypal and found on every continent.
Each culture will have its own styles, techniques, songs, rhythms and uses.
Here you will find different samples of frame drumming around the world.
In the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle east, the predominant frame drummers were women. It was used for rites of passage, for religious functions, celebrations and communal bonding. Layne Redmond follows the history of the frame drum, in the Mediterranean area through her research for the book, " When the Drummers Were Women".
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Thirty years ago in the U.S, it would have been a rarity, to find a frame drum in the hands of a women. These days, there is a growing amount of women interested in playing the frame drum.
Layne Redmond , Alessandra Belloni, Rowan Storm, Judy Piazza and Marla Leigh have all been dedicated to share their work across the country and abroad, through intensives, workshops, classes, and performances. Inspiring other women to play
They also share through their recordings, books, blogs, written articles or instructional videos.
Layne and Alessandra were the first women to have their own signature series drums made by
REMO INC
**Each of these women's discovery of the drum has been their own unique journey and gift to the world. **
Now more women are playing professionally. Others are playing for personal nourishment, pleasure, healing, empowerment and spiritual reasons.
Others are playing within and for communities that raise consciousness, create sacred space and support a more sustainable way of living.
And still others, play to reconnect to their culture and traditions.
Layne Remond
Layne Redmond has been in the forefront in inspiring women to play the frame
drum from across the U.S.A and internationally with offerings of workshops, classes, intensives, retreats, performances and presentations since 1981.
She integrates other healing modalities, ritual and history within her workshops.
In June 1997, she authored the book "When the Drummers were Women"
which traces a spiritual history of the frame drum in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East to the Goddess Traditions of those areas. This exposed many to the ancient instrument the frame drum.
She has numerous CD recordings, music projects, and instructional videos as well as her own line of signature series drums by
REMO INC
Layne Redmond is constantly being inspired by the Muse to create.
Please check out her other creative endeavors:
Now more women are playing professionally.
Others are playing for personal nourishment, pleasure,
healing and empowerment.
Others are playing within communities that raise consciousness,
create sacred space and support a more sustainable way of living.
Allesandra Belloni is a tambourine virtuoso, singer, dancer born in Rome, Italy and is committed to preserving the rich traditions of her culture.
She is the only artist in the world who specializes in Southern Italian tambourines combined with singing and dance that she learned from the old people in drumming festivals in Southern Italy.
Alessandra is director of Italian theatre Group I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA – with classical guitarist/composer John La Barbera and Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.
She was selected as one of the best percussionists and recording artist in the world by DRUM and featured in the New York and Los Angeles Times, in Modern Drummer and Percussive Notes. She tours extensively around the world performing and teaching in major percussion festivals.
She is the Company’s director, writer,
and lead performer of the recent Folk Operas:
SPIDER DANCE – Techno tarantella ecstasy and "The Dance of the Ancient Spider"premiered at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
A very fiery passionate performer. She honors the Goddess through her music and performances. Her workshops feature Southern Italian ritual dances used as music and dance therapy combined with the Italian tambourine, focusing on the ancient healing trance dance of the Tarantella.
She has authored "Rhythm is the Cure" An instructional book and DVD on Southern Italian tambourine.
It is an excellent instructional video, easy to follow and it's beautiful to witness her performances.
She also has a line of signature series tambourines by
REMO INC
Alessandra has numerous recordings that can be found on her site.
www.alessandrabelloni.com
http://www.myspace.com/alessandrabelloni
http://www.rowanstorm.com/
Since 1977 Rowan Storm has been singing, studying and performing a wide variety of traditional hand drums with some of the greatest Masters of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.
Rowan became enchanted with the Frame Drum through a performance of Kurdish Daff in the mid 1980's, initiating her search to understand its meaning and history. In 2006 Rowan was invited to play Daff within the circles of women dervishes in their ceremonies in Kurdistan, Iran.
An intrepid musical, cultural and linguistic explorer, Rowan has been living primarily in Greece since 1993, with Los Angeles as her western base. Rowan is building bridges throughout the world with her performances and unique Essential Frame Drum Method Workshops, which promote rhythmic language development and technique within a context which encourages integration of the two brain hemispheres.
The Rowan Storm Dayereh is an updated version of the traditional Iranian frame drum, now featured in the Artist Innovation Series by Cooperman Drum Company http://www.cooperman.com/coopermanaiseries.php
Judy Piazza has lived, worked, and played in the field of music education, music performance, and music therapy for over thirty years. She is an accomplished percussionist, singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and recording artist who performs and teaches in diverse venues nationally/internationally. She facilitates workshops on frame drumming, rhythm, healing sound, and devotional song; offers school "Drums & Chants From Around the World" assembly and residency programs; and facilitates Rhythm & Song Circles to nurture community and individual health as well as to communicate gentle yet powerful messages regarding relationships to our self, each other, and to our Earth.
Currently, Judy performs with The MidEast Ensemble of the University of CA Santa Barbara and with the Tony Khalife Group. She has been featured on Ubaka Hill's most recent CD "Beyond the Wind", has played for 12 years with Repercussions, a women's percussion ensemble based in Michigan, and with the Ann Arbor Kirtan Group, and played for the Echoes Radio Program with Melanie Hutton and Marshall Lefferts.
Judy has had extensive experience with young people in classroom settings, camps, and special programs, including the Junior World Game, Culture Diversity Game, ecological education programs, rites of passage and ceremony, and artist-in-residence programs. She has worked and presented for over 15 years with VSAarts (Michigan, Washington DC, Japan), Kennedy Center (Michigan, Colorado), and Wolftrap programs. She has also presented staff in-service trainings for special needs as well as regular education teachers, presents at many Music Educator Conferences, and facilitated the closing ceremonies and other workshops for the American Music Therapy Association International Conference. She works with the Peripole-Bergerault, Inc. Music COmpany and with Cooperman Frame Drums.
Judy has been deeply inspired and influenced by Glen Velez, Ubaka Hill, and Russill Paul, with whom she has performed. She has also studied, performed with and / or shared the stage with Alessandra Belloni, Paul Winter, Arthur Hull, Edwina Lee Tyler, Michael Markus, Gordy Ryan, Bill Miller and others.
Judy continues to delve deeply into the nature and use of rhythm and sound among first peoples, as well as the sonic possibilities and healing aspects of rhythm, voice, and tone during her extensive world travels and studies. She is well-loved for her spirit and passion, clear and generous teaching style, and her exceptional talents.
Marla Leigh Goldstein is an internationally recognized world percussionist, flautist and composer who is based in Los Angeles CA. Her main instrument of choice is the frame drum and she is committed to learn the ancient traditions, as well as and create new avenues of exploration for this instrument!!
Marla has been commissioned to compose music for dance companies, films and schools. She has also performed across the globe, at venues/festivals such as: Skirball Center, UCLA Royce Hall , Luzurne Music Festival, Bali Arts Festival, Hawaii Arts Festival, Sacred Music Festival Los Angeles, Los Angeles & Topanga Earth Day Festivals and the Harmony Festival. As well,. Marla is involved in the west coast kirtan/world music scene and has accompanied artists such as: Donna Delory, Suzanne Sterling, David Stringer and Karnamrita Dasi. Marla also leads her own world music ensemble, “Rhythymjuju” and teaches workshops and drumming retreats in beautiful places around the world
Marla has released an instructional DVD for hand drums called “Time Zone” and has recently designed her own line of Frame Drums with the Cooperman Company,
. She is currently working on her debut album, “Rhythms in Peace”, that will feature a unique collaboration of artists from North Africa, Middle East and the USA.
Marla received a BFA in Flute/Composition and MFA in World Percussion from California Institute of the Arts and has studied at the Ali Akbar College School and the Bhavan Center in London. Marla has been blessed to study with master percussionists of the twenty-first century, such as Glen Velez, John Bergamo, Trichy Sankaran, Poovalar Srinivasaan, Pandit Swapan Chadhuri , Kobla Ladzekpo, Randy Gloss and Alfred Ladzekpo. Marla is endorsed by Cooperman,Mountain Rhythm, Wright Hand Drums and Fat Conga Drum Companies.
http://www.marlaleigh.com
Marla playing her new signature frame drum by Cooperman Drum Company
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Miranda Rondeau- Los Angeles, Ca. Miranda - Facebook
Miranda Rondeau is a singer, songwriter, musician and frame drummer whose music is inspired by the inward journey. Her chanting transcends language, bypasses the intellect, and is devotional and invoking in nature.
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She has performed and weaved through many circles of communities throughout southern California since 1994, both as a soloist and within various percussion ensembles, performing at colleges, Universities, drum festivals, churches, Womens Conferences/Events, and Yoga & Dance classes.
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Miranda is often invited as the opening music for many events including the NAFDA Concert at TAmburi Mundi Festival Freigburg, Germany 2009, NAFDA West California 2009, American Frame Drum Gathering 2008, Raw Lifestyle Film Festival 2008, The Good Medicine 2008, Gaia Festival 2007, Project Butterfly 2008-9, REMO's Womens Drum Day 2007,Temple of the Goddess, Green Long Beach Festival and REMO RMC Holiday Celebration 2007.
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Miranda has studied and performed with Layne Redmond and Italian frame drummer, Alessandra Belloni.
Miranda brings her intuitive instinctual experience and relationship to the drum to her performance and workshops.
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She has also taught frame drum workshops at the World Sacred Music Festival,Gaia Festival, REMO Music Center, Bang-a-Drum Drum Store,Goddess Temple OC, Project Butterfly, Goddess Studio as well as at yoga studios,universities,colleges and elementary schools.
She continues her women frame drumming network on facebook, where frame drum events are much easily posted. Please consider joining. Women Frame Drumming FB
http://www.norathiele.de/ Nora Thiele is one of the youngest and most innovativ percussionists. She spent her childhood and youth in Leipzig (Germany) where she studied percussion, drums and piano at the Academy for Music and Theatre “Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Leipzig”. She currently works as a free-lancer in the field of World, Contemporary and Ancient Music.
She performs as a soloist and with her ensemble “The Playfords” and with Oudplayer Saef Alkeat. She has performed with "SWR Radio Symphonie Orchester", “Weser Renaissance Bremen”, Haendels Company”, the “Ensemble Avantgarde” and others. She has toured music festivals in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovenia, the Republic of China and Iran ("Donaueschinger Musiktage", "T.F.F. Rudolstadt", "WOMEX", "Tage Alter Musik in Herne", "Jazz Festival Nanjing" and Tamburi Mundi).
Nora Thiele composes frame drum music (among others for her percussion duo “Duo Doyra”) and has written a radio play composition for SWR radio.
Nora Thiele has specialized in frame drums and has been particularly interested in musical contexts between the old music of Europe and traditional Oriental music, (ensemble “Ballate per Giovanna”).
She is a workshop teacher in high demand throughout Europe.
She has been part of the the largest frame drum festival Tamburi Mundi in Germany as a teacher and performer.
Since 1994 Eliana Gilad has worked with thousands of healthcare professionals, coaches, sound healers, yoga teachers, spiritual healers and peace leaders, helping them to reconnect to the Source of their authentic and natural voice.
Eliana has devoted her life to revive the ancient healing music practices of the biblical prophetess Miriam through the creation of Voices of Eden music. The music was medically researched for three years at Meir Hospital Neonatal ward and found to lower blood pressure, heart rate, increase focus and quality of sleep amongst the neonates, their parents and the medical staff. Gilad has presented with Dr. Masaru Emoto (Messages from Water) who has also researched her music, and has been invited to present before the United Nations three times. She has produced
five cds and two books.
She organizes frame drum and percussion workshops as well as help support, promote and sell Cooperman Frame Drums in Japan.
She is originally a keyboard player, but when she discovered the frame drum, it was a very strong calling and she followed its call! For her it was
like a revelation, a shocking encounter of fate. It is a musical instrument that unifies her life.
The frame drum brought her to Iran, to study the Daf, then to New York, to meet Glen Velez, N.Scott Robinson, Patrick Cooperman of the Cooperman drum company, to museums and then to Los Angeles to study with Layne and interview her.
Glen Velez was a pioneer in fusing different techniques from around the world on the frame drum bringing it into visibility and inspiring a wave of new players in the U.S. and abroad. He has been a significant contribution for the expansion of women frame drummers. His first long term student was Layne Redmond, who authored "When the Drummers Were Women" Glen Velez- http://www.glenvelez.com/
"Rhythm is the Cure" An instructional book and DVD on Southern Italian tambourine.
It is an excellent instructional video, easy to follow and it's beautiful to witness her performances.
Great profile. Peace and progress. Many thanks for adding me and looking forward to your comment.. Any suggestion is welcome. Hope you enjoy and dance to my Music. All the best wishes. Farid
Thank you for the wonderful birthday wishes/blessings you posted! I haven't had much access to the internet lately, my home pc is not hooked up since we moved :(
I am grateful for your generous heart, It would be wonderful to meet you someday!
Love, Grattitude, and many blessings to you and everything you do!
Thanx for the friendship - and for making this lovely and very inspiring site. Looking forward to spend more time in here - for joy and inspiration:-) Love and Blessings - Lea
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