Updates to Webmaster

Malian Handicrafts (12-00)
Mamady Keita's Official Homepage

French Site

Mamady Keita's Official Homepage

English Site & Djembe: "Traditional Mande Rhythm"
by Mamady Keita et  al.   

Maimouna Keita School of African Dance (10-02)

MAPS

Foundation Course in African Dance Drumming
Eric Charry - Jembe article and maps of Africa
Africa maps
Guinea map

MardiGras Indians (5/99)

More

Phil Maturano's Page

Information and links to percussion sites, especially good section of links to percussion instrument companies

Mbira Maker - John Kunaka (1/99)
        The Kunaka site is an online version of an article by Paul Berliner that first appeared in African Arts magazine in 1980.  The article is a great source of information about making mbira.  This site is the first intallment of an evolving site focusing on mbira makers and mbira making.  

Middle Eastern Percussion

Links to instructional materials

MK Drum Center

Chuck Cogliandro - Drum making, drum repair, individual & group instruction, community drum circles, corporate training and performance

Larry Morris' Rhythm Catalog (10/01)
Music Stuff webring (04/00)

MusicStuff - Denmark (04/00)

Comment: Many free samples, Mp3´s, soundsets, software, tips, music-links
and a lot of other music-stuff here !

Music of the Wolof of Senegal

Na Kiri

Dutch percussion group homepage

New York City Drum & Dance (12-00)

    Drumming in New York City and the surrounding tri-state area
Nii Tettey Tetteh (9/99)

African percussionist Nii Tettey Tetteh  includes history of instruments, vibrant and detailed photos, info on his study tours to Ghana.

NOMAD [6-2-98]

DRUMMERS OF BURUNDI - Bruno Suhner Schrieb homepage

Luis M. Nuñez (web page is out-of-date)

Mr. Nuñez, the author of SANTERIA, A Practical Guide to Afro-Caribbean Magic, offers the following article as a brief overview of the basic rites of Santeria and the bata drums that accompany them.

International Drum Circle Directory   (as of December 1, 2000, this site is off-line)

An International directory of KNOWN drumcircles. Check this out before traveling!

Jaqui MacMillan (12/98)

Djembe Classes and workshops + Performances

Music Research (12/98)

seems to be a quite useful resource with online papers, abstracts, reviews, resource etc.

One Beat (6/99)

Toronto, Canada - Hand Drumming Workshops & Performances

Orisha Art (2/99)

One World Arts Exchange (7/00)

Pan-African News Agency (2/99)
   Percussion from West Africa (08/03)

Listen to traditionally played rhythms with djembe (jembe, yembe), doundoun (junjun), sangban and kenkeni on our page djembe rhythms. We publish complete rhythms only on this page, i.e. including break (call), echauffements, solo's etc. These rhythms are mostly played in Malinké way (Mamady Keïta, Famoudou Konaté, Ponda O'Bryan, a.o.).
You can listen to recordings of more or less known artists on djembe on our page live fragments.

Percussive Arts Society--An Overview (7/98)

A not-for-profit organization with an educational purpose promoting drums and percussion through a network of performers, teachers, students and members.

Percussions.org (06/00)

Nice web site in French with MP3 music

Percussion In North Carolina

Regional activities with links to other resources- compiled by Mary Overby

PC Drummer- Trial Version

DOS Drum Machine Shareware Program- Freeware trial available

Physical Modeling (12/98)

An article about computers used to simulate the sound of music instruments

From African Australian Cultural homepage to Australian Music Association     

From Babatunde Olatunji to British Library Online

From Candombe.com TO Cuban Rap Lyrics

From DallasDrums TO Drummer Girl Web Site

From  Earth Drum Council TO International Percussion Workshops

From James Van Den Akker Memorial Pages TO Liewil's Djembe Pages

From Rap Lyrics TO Stone Montgomery's Web Site

From Tabla Bibliography TO Yoruba House

HappyShel with Link additions or corrections

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