{"id":4349,"date":"2012-11-29T18:05:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=4349"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:37:22","slug":"west-african-drumming-percussion-workshop-126-lang-concert-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/2012\/11\/29\/west-african-drumming-percussion-workshop-126-lang-concert-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Drumming &amp; Percussion workshop 12\/6 Lang Concert Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West African Drumming &amp; Percussion Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Traditional Rhythms of the Malink\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>with Tara Tucker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>DrumUpBig Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>drums provided: no experience necessary\u2014beginners on up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>December 6, 2012<\/p>\n<p>4:15\u20145:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>Lang Concert Hall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please reserve a place (and a drum): email your<\/p>\n<p>interest to Kim Arrow: <a href=\"mailto:karrow1@swarthmore.edu\">karrow1@swarthmore.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or show up on the day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tara is an internationally recognized djembe player.\u00a0 She has performed with major\u00a0artists such as\u00a0Chris Berry (USA),\u00a0Mamady Keita (Japan, Singapore, USA), Ganga Giri (Australia), Wala (Ghana), Ben Hakalitz (Papua New Guinea\/Australia) and Kobya (Mazambique) among others.<\/p>\n<p>Tara uses drumming and singing as a tool for community development, and for building cognition, self-esteem and identity in Australian Aboriginal communities throughout Queensland\u2019s Cape York Peninsula and recently in the Dharavi megaslum\u00a0 (<em>Slumdog Millionaire<\/em>) of Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>She is the only Australian certified as a Tam Tam Mandingue Teacher by Mamady Keita, Grand Master of the Djembe, and is one of only seven Examiners for the TTM Grading system for djembe and dunun.\u00a0 Tam Tam Mandinge International School of West African Drumming consists of fifteen schools world-wide in seven countries.\u00a0 Mamady Keita is author of\u00a0<em>Mamady Keita: A Life for the Djemb\u00e9\u2014Traditional Rhythms of the Malink\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West African Drumming &amp; Percussion Workshop Traditional Rhythms of the Malink\u00e9 with Tara Tucker DrumUpBig Australia drums provided: no experience necessary\u2014beginners on up. December 6, 2012 4:15\u20145:30 PM Lang Concert Hall &nbsp; Please reserve a place (and a drum): email your interest to Kim Arrow: karrow1@swarthmore.edu or show up on the day &nbsp; Tara is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7217,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4349\/revisions\/7217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/music-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}