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Redmond Dec. workshop in Fla.

ionamiller — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 19:41:50 GMT

Workshops rescheduled for Dec. 10 as the Intro Workshop and Dec. 11 as the Intermediate to Advanced Workshop, details below!

Hi all!!

After consulting with the registered participants for the workshops at my house this weekend we decided that it was a time for us all to stay close to home and prepare for the possible visitation of Wilma. People were coming from all over Florida and there were actually no hotel reservations available in Chiefland due to Wilma lurking out there in the Gulf. I guess Katrina and Rita rearranged everyone's thinking about these storms and I found out if a Category 5 hits the mouth of the Suwanee I am 6 miles within the projected flood zone. Yikes!

While I was in Brazil I produced a cd which included the chants and rhythms of Iansan, the goddess of powerful storms. I am feeling that she needs some sort of major offering at this point!! I recently read that her traditional offerings are cloth, red wine, eggplants, and coins. Her colors are purple or burgundy, her metal copper, her number nine, which brings to my mind, the triple goddess, the nine muses.

She is said to be the goddess of change, blowing away the old to make space for the new, using her lightening shaped sword to clear a path for new growth. (I came home with one of these copper swords and her flywhisk.) She is said to watch over the recently dead and assist them in the transition from life into the next realm.

In Brazil she is associated with the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of La Candelaria, whose feast day is Feb. 2nd which is also Candlemass in the old Celtic lands. Iansan is a fiery goddess and seems to have a connection with the Celtic Bridgit, and in Haiti her Vodoun counterpart is Maman Brijit. Somewhere between 30,000 and 80,000 pagan Irish women and children were sold into slavery on Haiti and Jamaica after Cromwell crushed Ireland. These Irish slaves intermarried with the African slaves evolving a unique blend of pre-christian pagan and African traditions.

But I did want to let everyone know that we are looking at Dec. 10 as the Intro Workshop and Dec. 11 as the Intermediate to Advanced Workshop.

I'd like to clear some issues up about what I mean when I say Intermediate to Advanced, this means people who have been studying with me or other frame drum teachers and have their own drums -- tambourine, frame drum, and possibly also kanjira and pandeiro. Or are professional percussionists or musicians and feel they have the requisite skills. Having had one workshop with me doesn't move you into an intermediate or advanced level. Actually the Intro would be a great place for you to polish up your skills and I will be introducing new material from Brazil in the Intro workshop also.

Intro to Frame Drum, $55, Dec. 10
Review of basics on tambourine and new rhythms from Brazil!
$55 -- early registration Dec. 1; $60 after that date
Drums available for pre-registered participants.

Fusing Brazilian and Middle Eastern Rhythms!
Dec. 11, Sun. 10 - 4, Chiefland, FL
Pandeiro and Tambourine, Intermediate to advanced,
$55 -- early registration Oct. 1; $60 after that date
$90 for both days, early registration Dec. 1; $110 after that date
New stuff from my trip to Brazil!

Email workshops@layne redmond.com. Registration can be sent to Layne Redmond, PO Box 2210, Chiefland, FL 32644-2210,

Please let me know if you are interested in these workshops ASAP so we will know if these dates are working for people!!! For those of you who have already responded no need to do so again!

blessings, layne

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Layne Redmond

Golden Seed Productions
PO Box 2210
Chiefland, FL 32644-2210
352-493-2905
fax 352-490-7557
Layne@layneredmond.com
www.layneredmond.com

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WELCOME

Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:09:37 GMT

I thought it was time to create a tribe for frame drum players with a bias towards Middle Eastern and North African rhythms. I've been playing frame drum for about fifteen years and I've been teaching off and on for about three. I've studied with Mary Ellen Donald, Susu Pampion, and Reda Darwish. Thought I no longer perform, I continue to play as a meditation. For more information about lessons, please email through my profile.

Make of this what you will!!!

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Redmond Dec. workshop in Fla.

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