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2009-2010 Season Workshops:
Peggy Seeger Intergenerational Songwriting Workshop
April 10, 1:00 to 3:00 pm (arrive by 12:45)
Common Fence Music
933 Anthony Rd. Portsmouth
Bring a song to share if you'd like
Free, compliments of Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Connecting the Beats Workshop
Bringing African and African-Caribbean
Drumming to the Youth of Newport County
Read
interview and view video, on Connecting the
Beats, at EastBayRI.com.
6 Concert Jams
(Part One) and an
8-Week Workshop (Part Two)
Free to all Newport County Students
Connecting the Beats (CTB) is a two-part exploration
of African and Afro-Caribbean Beats in Rhode Island. The program
is offered for free to all students of Newport County, and is
a collaboration between Common Fence Music, the Boys & Girls
Clubs of Newport County, the East
Bay Met School, the Jamestown
Teen Center and Portsmouth
Action for Youth.
Download PDF flyer with workshop schedule.
CTB Part One: 6 Concert Jams
Students
will hear concerts and participate in jam sessions with Obuamah
Addy of Ghana, Lydia
Perez of
Puerto Rico and Jesus
Andujar of Dominican
Republic at the Jamestown Teen Center, Portsmouth
Action for Youth, the East Bay Met School. No registration required
for the Concert Jams.
Obuamah
Addy and Norchemi (Ghana)
Portsmouth Action for Youth
Wed, Oct 7, 3:30 to 5:30 PM
Hathaway School, Tallman Ave, Portsmouth
Welcome to Tiverton and
Little Compton Students
Lydia Perez and Yoruba 2 (Puerto Rico)
East Bay Met School
Fri, Oct 9, 2:00 to 4:00 PM
Florence Gray Center, York St, Newport
Lydia Perez and Yoruba 2 at East Bay Met
School
Jesus Andujar Percussion
Ensemble (Dominican Republic)
Jamestown Teen Center
Wed, Oct 14, 3:30-5:30 PM
Jamestown Rec Center, 41 Conanicus Ave
Jesus Andujar Percussion Ensemble at Jamestown
Rec Center
RE WIND!
Boys and Girls Club
Fri, Oct 16 -- Obuamah Addy and Norchemi
Fri, Oct 23 -- Jesus Andujar
Fri, Nov 6 -- Lydia Perez
3:30 to 4:30 PM, Kids Cafe
5:00 to 7:00 PM, Teen Center
95 Church St, Newport
Obuamah Addy and Norchemi at the
Boys and Girls Club
CTB Part Two: 8-Week
Percussion Workshop
Students have the option to register for a free
8-week percussion workshop at the Boys and Girls Club with Jesus
Andujar.
Jesus will demonstrate traditional drumming
rhythms, beats, and techniques for students to learn and practice
together. A variety of drums and other percussion instruments are
provided or you can bring your own. In addition, DVDs on the origins
of African, European, and Caribbean percussion music -- which influences
much of today's popular musical styles -- will be presented.
Boys and Girls Club, 95 Church St, Newport
Twice each day:
3:30 PM Kids Cafe
5:00 PM Teen Center
Nov 13
Nov 20
Dec 4
Dec 11
Jan 8
Jan 15
Jan 22
Jan 29
Students learn drumming with Jesus Andujar
at the Kids Cafe.
Jesus Andujar demonstrates drumming techniques
at the Teen Center.
Connecting the Beats is made possible
by the generous support of the
Newport
County Fund of the Rhode Island Foundation.
Percussion Workshop
Bringing African Roots Music to the Youth of Newport County
- Free concert tickets for area youth for:
Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa show on Oct 24, 2009.
Jesus
Andujar and Grupo Sazon show on Feb 6, 2010.
- A free 2-hour percussion workshop for Newport
County students with Kinobe and Soul Beat Africa (on tour from
Africa).
Saturday, Oct 24, from 1 to 3 pm -- the day of their concert.
Kinobe workshop at CFM Community Hall, October 24.
Bringing African Roots Music to the Youth of
Newport County funding provided by a grant from the
Rhode
Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation
by the Rhode Island General Assembly, a grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts and private funders.
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