World Rhythm Festival – Family Day Friday, August 20th
Performances – Workshops – Drum Circles
Performers/ Time Event Type Location Artists Dingolay, Mak Fai Music & Dance – Grand Opening Kung Fu & Lion Trinidad, China, Columbia Park 11am Performance Dance, and Fode Guinea Sylla A World of Steel Pan Afro-Caribbean Dingolay Columbia Park 12pm Music Dance Music
12pm Lion Dance Drums and Mak Kai Kung Fu & Percussion – Rhythm Tent Drumming Lion Dance Southern China
Join the Jamtown Jamtown Howdy American Folk Columbia Park 1pm Howdy Band! Band Music
West African West African Drum Circle Fode Sylla Rhythm Tent 2pm Percussion
Trinidad Percussion: The Percussion - Dingolay Event Hall 2pm Engine Room Calypso & Soca Percussion – 3pm The Salsa Percussion Trio Danny Mendoza Salsa & Latin Rhythm Tent Jazz Most Important Arturo Rodriguez Percussion Skills Rhythm Tent 5pm Concepts in Drumming
Music & Dance - VamoLa! VamoLa! Columbia Park 6pm Brazil
Opening Night Drum Community Jim Boneau Rhythm Tent 6pm Circle Drumming Seattle-based World Rhythm Festival Goody Bagg Jazz, R&B, & Auditorium 7:30pm Fundraiser Hip Hop
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World Rhythm Festival Saturday, August 21st Performances – Workshops – Drum Circles
Performers/ Time Event Type Location Artists How to Do a Hot Solo on Simone La Drumma Percussion Skills Event Hall 10am Hand Drums Community The Boom-Boom Diggy Seattle Hand Drummers Rhythm Tent 10am Drumming 10:30am International Capoeira Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Angola Columbia Park Angola Foundation Martial Art & Music Community Jamtown John Drum Circle Jamtown John Hayden Rhythm Tent 11am Drumming Kouyate Arts Youth Dance Kouyate Arts West African Dance Columbia Park 12pm Workshop Afro-Peruvian Cajón Afro-Peruano Monica Rojas-Stewart Rhythm Tent 12pm Percussion Persian Percussion Pezhham Ahkavass Persian Percussion Auditorium 12:30pm Tombak and Daf Kouyate Arts Adult Dance Kouyate Arts West African Dance Columbia Park 1pm Workshop 2nd Line Rhythms of New Larry Jones and the Jazz New Orleans Rhythm Tent 1pm Orleans Night School 2nd Line Parade Music International Capoeira Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Angola Event Hall 2pm Angola Foundation Martial Art & Music Frame Drums and Mediterranean Tambourines of the Antonio Gomez Rhythm Tent 2pm Percussion Mediterranean Raks Maleka Belly Turkish-Romanian Raks Maleka - Belly Dance Auditorium 2pm Dance Troupe Dance & Music Music that Marches to the Larry Jones and the Jazz New Orleans Columbia Park 3pm 2nd Line Night School 2nd Line Parade Music Saeed Abbas & West African Social Saeed Abbas & GyeNyamé Auditorium 3pm GyeNyamé Dance Rhythms 3pm Introduction to the Tabla Tor Dietrichson Percussion - Indian Rhythm Tent Persian Rhythm, Pezhham Ahkavass Persian Percussion Workshop 4pm Tombak, and Daf The Brazilian Folklore and Dance – Dance with Dora Auditorium 4:30pm Legends of Piauí Northeastern Brazil Fode Sylla & Manimou West African Dance Guinean Dance Columbia Park 4:30pm Camara Percussion - Beginning and Intermediate Saeed Abbas Ghanaian Dance Event Hall 6pm Ghanaian Rhythms Rhythms Let's Swing with the Axé Dance – Dance with Dora Columbia Park 6:30pm Rhythm of Salvador Bahia! Northeastern Brazil Dance Party with Boka Boka Kouyate & The West African Music Auditorium 7:30pm Kouyate & The Djeliyah Band Djeliyah Band & Dance
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World Rhythm Festival Sunday, August 22nd
Performances – Workshops – Drum Circles
Time Event Performer/Artist Type Location Anokye Ghanaian Music & Anokye Agofomma Columbia Park 12pm Agofomma Dance Hijos de Puerto Rican Music Exploring the Bomba Event Hall 12:30pm Agüeybaná & Dance
1pm Afrisound Afrisound Kenyan Music Auditorium Egyptian Doumbek (aka Egyptian & Middle Derbakki, Darbuka, or George Sadak Rhythm Tent 1pm Eastern Music Egyptian Tabla) Khmer Amarak Robam Selepak Khmer Khmer Dance Columbia Park 2pm Performing Arts Egyptian Raks Sharki Egyptian & Middle (aka BellyDance) Indigo, with Eastern Music & Event Hall 2pm Workshop George Sadak Dance with Indigo Ecstatic Noise Drum Community Zakarya Baza Rhythm Tent 2pm Circle Drumming Hijos de Puerto Rican Music Hijos de Agüeybaná Auditorium 3pm Agüeybaná & Dance 3pm Be a Better Conga Player Tor Dietrichson Percussion Skills Rhythm Tent Creole Zydeco Bayou Envie Bayou Envie Columbia Park 3:30pm Music Adaptation of Tabla Into South Asian Anil Prasad Rhythm Tent 4pm the Western World Percussion MC Hammer Pants vs. Khmer Amarak Khmer Dance Event Hall 4pm Kabeun Performing Arts Music of Mexico, Mexico Meets the Trio Guadalevin Southern Europe & Auditorium 4:30pm Mediterranean North Africa Community Closing Drum Circle Jim Boneau Rhythm Tent 5pm Drumming Afro-Cuban, 5pm Todo Es Todo Es Caribbean & Columbia Park Brazilian Music Boka Kouyate and West African Music Mamady Keita Memorial Columbia Park 6pm Friends & Dance
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