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Watershed to offer African Drumming workshops

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By Dave Cazalet, Jr.

Watershed Arts Alliance, in collaboration with the Somerset Housing Authority, will offer a series of African Drumming workshops on Saturdays during January 2010.

The workshops will be held at the Somerset Housing Authority Learning Center at 400 Hail Knob Road, Somerset, KY.



Classes for teenagers 13 and older will be held from 10:30am to 12:30pmET. The cost will be $15 for three Saturday sessions.

Adult classes will be held from 1pm to 3pm on the same three Saturdays in January. The cost will be $20 for Watershed Members and $25 for non-members.For more information or to register for the workshops call (606) 679-0507. The registration fee is due by Sunday, January 3, 2010.The workshops will be conducted by Jacob Hamrick, a graduate of Berea College. He was born in Paris, Kentucky. He currently performs with The Westbrook Trio, a jazz/funk group headquartered in Richmond.

Hamrick is a student of Tripp Bratton, a noted African percussion performer and educator. Tripp has studied with Midawo Gideon Foli Alorwoyie, a master drummer of the Ewe Tribe in Northern Ghana and with Yaya Diallo, the famous Mali drummer and the author of The Healing Drum.

"While studying with Tripp, I have played rhythms from all over Africa and South America," Hamrick said. "I've studied rhythms from Ghana, Liberia, Congo, Suriname, Senegal, Brazil and Haiti."

Hamrick primarily plays the djembe drum and the djun djun drum (like a bass drum). He plans to bring both types of drums and some bells to the workshops.

Hamrick said that the workshops can be adjusted to the skills of the participants from beginner to expert.


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Watershed to offer African Drumming workshops



2009-12-11 - Somerset, KY - Photo by Dave Cazalet, Jr.. Watershed Arts Alliance will offer an African Drumming Workshop, similar to this one held at the Somerset Community College International Festival in October, for three Saturdays in January 2010. The workshop will be conducted by Jacob Hamrick, a drummer from Berea College, and will be held at the Somerset Housing Authority Learning Center located at 400 Hail Knob Rd. in Somerset.
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