American people wil be able to check out Isaiah Chevrier playing djembe on Oprah on November 17th.

I’m not 100% clear, but it sounds like it will only be the video being played, rather than the young guy himself playing…

Good chance there’ll be some discussion on djembe and djembe music surely, so I’d be watching if I could!

This is the first case I’ve head of, but another person is in care in hospital after inhaling Anthrax from the a goat skin while re-heading a drum.

Read all about it on new scientist below:

Anthrax Djembe Skin

We must aggrevate the risk by virtue of the fact that we are shaving the skin with a razor blace and loads of dust and fibre come off during this phase….

I wonder how many people in Africa die mysteriously from this condition every year?

TOMORROW!!

Intermediate djembe from 10 to 1pm with Vieux Bakayoko at Brixton Art Space

Mixed level Guinean Dance with Saskia Bakayoko from 2pm to 5pm at Brixton
Art Space

And at the Synergy Centre..

2nd November Djembe for Beginners/Intermediate with me and Landing 10 to 1pm
and Dance with Landing 2pm to 5pm

7th December Sabar drum with Modou Diouf from 10 to 1pm and Sabar dance with
Diene Sagna from 2pm to 5pm

www.djembeschool.co.uk

Mob: 07887 683856

Tel: 01932 219632

Come down and check out Dublin’s hottest djembe players rip it up.

Afo presents a shake your booty boogie on down evening every Wednesday at the Turk’s head.

Costs will be 5 euros on the door. With the fantstic DJ Marina Diniz direct for Brazil!

Be there or be a rectangle….

James

I have added a new page to the site for djembe in burkina faso.

The purpose of these pages for each country is to provide usefull information for eachcountry.

This could include:

• up and coming events
• performance groups in the area
• Teachers and classes in the country / state / area
• any other relevent info

I would like to invite anybody that is interested in contributing to the site to do so. You can do this in a number of ways.

• Volunteer to represent your local area. I can add members of the community as contributers to the blog, so that they can write posts relating to their area. This is a good way to establish yourself in djembe community, locally, nationally and internationally.Blog posts for each country appear in the relevent category - example. These categories will soon be tied back into each country’s page.
• Add details of events and classes in your area
• Email me details of teachers to list on the national page
• Write and article on a djembe related topic. This could take the form of a blog posts, a guide or an article to appear in the Articles section.
  
  
  All articles contributed may have 2 text links to a site of your choice.
  
  
  Djembefola.com has a google PR of 5. Which is the highest that I know of for a djembe site on the Internet. 1 link from us to your site, with the right anchor text will be enough to put on the first page for many highly targeted djembe type search phrases.

I hope some of you will take me up on this, if you have any questions, please email me on james at djembefola.com

Hi Guys, I’m passing this message on from hoolahoop Marion.

Looks like fun!!!

I hope you are free the following weekend the 10th and the 11th of October. As we are lucky to have a master dancer from Guinea West Africa visiting us in Dublin to give a two day workshop in both African drumming and dance. You can choose between a drum and/or a dance workshop. Don’t be shy to try a bit of dance if you are always behind a drum or try some drumming if you are always out dancing.

If you have any further questions just ring me 0857201889

I’m passing on details of this event in the UK, as it seems to be for a good cause:

I am organising an event in November called Global Beats, at Otley College, Suffolk. It is in aid of a charity called Love Light Romania. All profits will go to the sanctuary in Romania which offers a home to children who have the aids virus through childhood immunisation! unbelievable - I know. The link to this charity is www.lovelightromania.com have a look to see what they are up to.

I work at Otley college and the PA to the principle is heavily involved with this project, when I saw the film about the charity, that was it, I knew that we could do something for them and hopefully top what we raised in January (£1000)

The event is looking to be fabulous, with loads of workshops and then supper then topped off with an amazing concert of drumming, samba, balafon, dance and high energy.

The whole event is to be filmed by BBC as part of a European series that will be shown on the TV in early January.

It would be wonderful to fill up all the workshop spaces and sell lots of tickets for the meal and concert.

thank you so much in advance for your help.

Anyone who feels that they can also pass this email on would also be helping enormously.

To book, contact helenjane.cooke@btinternet.com
call/text - 07718 10 66 66 or 07946 050 318

African Drum Bash

A Night Of African Drumming Performances

at

Newbridge Memorial Hall
High St, Newbridge, Gwent, NP11 4FH

Starts 7.30pm

Admission: £1 - Performers,  £2 - Non-Performers

A great night of entertainment from African Drumming Groups: Shiko from Swansea, Weapons of Mass Percussion from Bridgend, Sedai Sedai from Blackwood, The Llanelli Drummers and possibly more!

A Night Not To Be Missed!

Come and have a drum, or dance the night away!

For more info please contact Liz - (01495) 200387
Mobile 07956353699
email lizmull2002&yahoo.co.uk

A bit of self promotion, since I was pushing Wassa Wassa the other day I had better give a nod in the general direction of the group I’m wish.

I play djembe and dunduns with Afo in Dublin.

We have a good bit of media up for you to enjoy.

Feedback would be appreciate muchly appreciated

Wassa Wassa has been born from the ashes of Djembefaso which fell asleep and didn’t wake up last year.

The band is made up of Andy, Aoife, Rob, Nial the 2 Marians and they are a breath of fresh air to the Dublin djembe scene.

Check out the Wassa Wassa myspace page and I really enjoyed their promo vids. Clean, organised and pretty good going for only 3 drummers.

I look forward to seeing more of their performance and wish them luck with the future…