Greetings!
STANDING ROCK CULTURAL ARTS presents
GLOBAL DRUMMING CONCERT
Featuring Daniel Kennedy, hand drums
Saturday, February 25
7pm Meet and Greet /7:30 Performance
Standing Rock Cultura lArts
300 N. Water St., Suite H
Downtown Kent, Oh 44240
INFO
On Saturday, February 25, percussionist Daniel Kennedy will present an evening of soloworks for global hand drums at Standing Rock Cultural Arts in Kent. The program will feature a variety of improvisations and compositions, spotlighting drums from India, Turkey, Egypt, Ghana,Italy, Brazil, and Cuba. The evening begins with a meet ‘n greetat 7pm, followed by the performance at 7:30. The suggested donationis $10 to support SRCA.
BIOGRAPHY
Daniel Kennedy has been devoted to the art of global hand drumming for several decades. As agrad student at CalArts, he began the study of tabla, djembe, andframe drums with hand drum artist John Bergamo. Following this,Daniel attended the Ali Akbar College of Music under the guidance oftabla master Swapan Chaudhuri, performing with the Tabla Ensemble andforming the quartet Tabla Rasa. He continued to explore other handdrumming styles, studying the Arabic tambourine and Brazilianpandeiro with Randy Gloss, attending the Frame Drums Italia classeswith Zohar Fresco, and most recently, pursuing the study of Persiandrumming with Sina Dehghani and Nariman Assadi.
Prior to moving toKent, Daniel was the Instructor of Percussion at Sacramento State University, where he directed the percussion studio and ensemble,taught music theory and world music, and was the director of the Festival of New American Music. He was very active as a freelanceperformer throughout the Bay Area, and was a member of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players for more than twenty years. Daniel was a founding member of the California EAR Unit and theTalujon Percussion Quartet, and has performed in the Netherlands,France, Italy, Bali, Japan, Mexico, and throughout the United States.
PROGRAM
“Improvisation in Seven"
for frame drum
“Three Tambourines”
“Tamburello”
duplets and triplets
“Pandeiro”
slow samba
“Riq”
improvisation in five
“Tabla Solo“
compositions in keharwatal by Swapan Chaudhuri
“Handful” by N.Scott Robinson
for bendir with foot rattles
“Syllables, Samples,and Shakers”
featuring caxixi and shekere with live sampling
“To The Earth” by Frederic Rzewski
for terra cotta pots and spoken word
“Elevens for Me” by Terry Longshore
for hand drum set:
conga, djembe,darabuka, frame drum, bongos, cajon, hi-hat, cymbals
Standing Rock Cultural Arts is a non profit, 501(c)(3) charitable organization. We invite and welcome sponsors to help cover expenses for our art and educational activities. Donations are tax deductible.
Standing Rock Cultural Arts
300 N. Water St., Suite H
Downtown Kent, Oh 44240
330-673-4970
www.standingrock.net
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