Posts Tagged ‘indie marketing’
Feeling Our Mother!
July 1st, 2010 | Author Lady Drummer
Songs for Yemaya are some of the sweetest and melodic in the pantheon of Orisha music. Enjoy this wonderful selection!
Adopt a Clitoris: Medical Care for Circumcised Women
June 10th, 2010 | Author Lady Drummer
Here is a way to help women in Africa who have experienced female mutilation. The surgical technique can restore full functioning of the clitoris. Amazing what modern science can do!
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Spirits of the Djembe:
May 6th, 2010 | Author Lady Drummer
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Mamady Keita: Triba
April 29th, 2010 | Author Lady Drummer
Mamady Keita was born to drum. This Master Drummer has traveled the world sharing the beauty of the Wassolou and Mendeng traditions of his people. He is one of the few Master Drummers to garner an international following and success. Notice the use of “breaks” creating musical interludes in the composition. Keita and his drummers seem to play with little effort or exertion. But, we know they are working hard!
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National Ballet of Senegal 2006
April 28th, 2010 | Author Lady Drummer
Senegalese artists had a tremendous impact on African dance in the United States as the result of the influences of Mor Thiam and Katherine Dunham between 1968 and 1974. This video of the National Ballet of Senegal filmed in 2006 is excellent in that it shows the use of both the djembe, indigenous to the Mandeng cultures of the Old Mali Empire and the Sabar of the Wolof people of Senegal!
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