Updates to Webmaster

Rap Lyrics (12/98)

Real Africa (02/03)

Welcome! Here we hope to explain as much as possible about our holidays on 'the smiling coast' of West Africa. We offer you an alternative to the usual hotel-based package holidays. We have strong 'eco-tourism' principles and do our best to give you an experience of the reality of life in The Gambia, as it is lived by the local people. Here life is lived within the extended family, each group we bring here becomes a mirror of that. In The Gambia a family's plot of land is called 'kunda' or 'compound'. Our neighbours the Ceessay family, live in the Ceesay Kunda or Ceesay compound. Our place is called the Drum Doctor compound. 'Drum Doctors' is the name, we have used since 1993 for our drum sales and workshops. 'Real Africa' is our new business name for our holidays, which are not necessarily drum related, except that drums are very much a part of real life in Africa, as is wildlife and nature.

Real Time translator, Spanish to English (04/00)

Layne Redmond's Home Page

General Information, discography and new book release information

Rhythm Book (12/98)

Learn to read and write notation and rhythms

Larry Morris' Rhythm Catalog (11/00) updated

Rhythm Planet (11-00)

aiding music teachers and youth program administrators in developing exciting rhythm education programs for young people

Rhythm Page for Hand Drumming (9/98)

Rhythm Tree

The Rhythm Tree is a sculpture with more than 300 networked drum pads mounted on seven giant, circular pods which stretch throughout the Mind Forest.

Root Doctor

Collection of articles from Djembe Online. Great reading!

Roots Jam - (5/00)

A Music Instruction Book For African Drumming, Djembe, and Percussion. Now with your easy-to-read African roots drum rhythms book you can jam with the masters... 80 Pages of Hand Drum Lessons, Drum Rhythms and Drumming Tips, with Easy Notation for Beginners Or Advanced Drum Groups. Includes traditional African djembe patterns, adaptations to Latin styles, plus some creative improvisations.

Gordy Ryan's Virtual Workshop

Learn the basic principles of African Drumming by downloading audio and video clips

Sabar Drumming

Information on Senegalese Sabar drumming and Master Doudou Ndiaye Rose

Santa Cruz Ethnic Arts (03/01)
           Our purpose is to connect you with as much information about ethnic arts & artists as we can find and present here.              Our home is Santa Cruz, California located on the central coast between Monterey and San Jose. We have a very strong              community of artists and devoted students of the arts that has developed over the past 20 years. One way our love and              committment for the arts is manifesting is this website. We hope you enjoy your visit here.

Hot Salsa (12/98)

Raffaele Sciacqua's Djembe Page

Information on djembe, correct playing posture, hand technique and strapping methods.

Seattle World Percussion Society (9/99)

producers of the World Percussion Festival (now in it's tenth year at the Seattle Center) has a website

Senegal Culture Bank (10/98)

We offer this site as the first one of several West African countries which we hope to include in CultureBank.

Spirit Drums (10/98)

Somalia Online (9/99)
       "One of the last remaining countries in Africa to be without           Internet  services. Somalia is one of only three African countries with no Internet access - the others being Eritrea and Congo-Brazzaville."

Bruno Suhar's Home Page (7/98)

Steel Pan Drums (7/98)

Eric Stuer's RhythmWeb

Rhythm notation, clave and bell patterns, the Bembe Wheel, MIDI examples and more.

A World Wide SalsaWeb Magazine - Main Page (7/98)

On line magazine for Latin music and dance. Includes news, events, celebritiy interview, reviews, and CD stores.

Sound is God

Damon Harper's new web site linked to KUCI 88.9 FM, Irvine, CA.

Peter Batty's SKIN TO SKIN (updated 9/00)

Percussion group based in the UK, offering Information on rhythms, skinning a djembe, Workshops, and Performances

J.B.Smith_Page (7/98)

An on-line sound files library of music for percussion soloists and ensembles.

Shamanism (12/98)

an article about shamanism, animism, drumming in that context about drumming in Northern Eurasia - from the "Electronical Journal of Folklore

  SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROLE OF RHYTHM IN COGNITION (10/98)

a very sophisticated essay from the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Spirit Talk Mbira - Music of Zimbawe (1/99)
       Spirit Talk Mbira is a UK-based group led by Chartwell Dutiro

Society of Ethnomusicology (9/98)

Songbook of the Chilean, Spanish and Latino-American Music (12/98)

Stone Montgomery's Web Site (12/98)

From African Australian Cultural homepage to Australian Music Association     

From Babatunde Olatunji's 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 Malian Handicrafts TO Physical Modeling

From Tabla Bibliography TO Yoruba House

Happy with Link additions or corrections

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