Classes and Community

Drum Sundays

Sistah Boom!

Drum Sundays:

Drum Sundays are monthly community drumming events held on Sunday afternoons.  These are open to all, including children.  This is a facilitated drum circles with rhythms being taught by master teachers.  Next year we will begin the event with a brief class for beginners.

The next Drum Sundays event will be on March 7 with Susu Pampanin

DRUM SUNDAYS 2010

Monthly drum circle open to everyone  

What:    Drum Sunday led by Susu Pampanin

When:    Sunday March 7, 2010
              1:00 - 3:00pm

Where:  4148 Mac Arthur Blvd.  (The Space)
              Oakland, CA  94619

Cost:      Sliding scale $10 -$25   Children under 12* free -- must be supervised by an adult
             No one turned away for lack of funds
          

Susu Pampanin has explored and studied all types of percussion instruments and styles of music, and her incredible talent is especially evident in her work in Middle Eastern drumming. Susu is well known for her virtuosity in Arabic drumming and is one of the few female Middle Eastern drummers highly respected by the Arabic professional music community.

She has worked and recorded with fusion ensembles, including Wild Mango, Keith Terry and Crosspulse, Stellamara, Jazayer, BlueNile, Vince Delgado Quintet, Susu and the Cairo Cats, and most recently, Holly Near. She also has a solo drum CD, Hands of Time.

SAVE the DATES for more Drum Sundays

• April 4     Carolyn Brandy
• May 2      Jackie Rago
• June 6     Suki (Sue Kaye)

Here are photos from a two of our 2008 events

We had a great time with & CAROLYN BRANDY & AFIA WALKING TREE on April 20th.

CAROLYN BRANDY	AFIA WALKING TREE

Check out the photo album! 

Photos by Jackie Thomason

Contact: (510) 464-5902
womendrummers@womendrummersinternational.org •

 

Sistah Boom! 

Sistah Boom in the early 80's

Photo by Cathy Cade

Sistah Boom at filming of MILK

photos and collage by Maria Verdan. More of Maria's photos (plus one of Maria by Jackie) of the filming here!

Sistah Boom at the Dyke March 2008

Statement:  Sistah Boom has been active in support of racial, gender and social justice. We are committed oworking on these issues internally as well as playing kick-ass music!

We had an exciting time playing in a scene for the filming of MILK and decided to reconstitute the group.  Sistah Boom played at the Dyke March stage on June 28th, 2008, and to also led the parade out into the streets. In August we played at Sistahs Steppin' in Pride.  We were proud to play at the memorial for Del Martin in October. We loved playing at the Dyke March again in 2009 and followed that by marching in the San Francisco Gay Pride March the next day.

Sistah Boom will be starting rehearsals soon.

To join Sistah Boom for future events, contact Carolyn Brandy.

We wish to thank Barbara Price for her generous donation to Sistah Boom, allowing us to use her beautiful, incredible space  -- Montclair Women's Club -- for our rehearsals in the past few years.

Contribution:  We pass a bucket at each rehearsal for a contribution of $5-$10 or more per player to help pay Carolyn, our musical director, and take care of expenses, and fund STB.

TEE SHIRTS:  We had Sistah Boom tee shirts printed. We wear these when playing at events. They will be on sale at the rehearsals, for $15.00.

Instruments: We would like women to bring their own instruments if they have ones that are part of our instrumentation. We also have some instruments that can be loaned. We will have a “check out” system for old STB instruments and some of Carolyn’s instruments. Women checking out instruments will be asked to pay a deposit to be held by STB.

Our Instrumentation: Bells, (Brazilian) Tamborims, Rattles, Shakers, Snare, Toms, Surdos, and any small percussion instrument that is easy to march with.