Add to Calendar 2025/03/29 14:00:00 2025/03/29 15:30:00 America/New_York WMPA Community Concert 🪘Drums Around the World 🪘
Featuring Tom Teasley, world music percussionist
Facilitation and Music by Munit Mesfin, Ethiopian-American singer and songwriter
With special guests Ethiopian Dancers from the Ethiopian Community Support & Advocacy Center (ECSAC)
Date Saturday, March 29, 2025
Time 2 PM to 3:30 PM
Place Patrick Henry Recreation Center, 4653 Taney Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22304
A unique, interactive journey through the history of world rhythms and percussion with Tom Teasley, renowned world/jazz percussionist, with music with facilitation and music by Ethiopian-American singer, songwriter, producer, Munit Mesfin.
Explore how rhythms from around the world often have a commonality. Ancient instruments are combined with the most recent advances in music technology. Activities include rhythmic coordination with egg shakers and merging of Indian, Brazilian and African rhythmic traditions. The program includes Ethiopian dancers from the ESCAC and a grand finale that will have the audience on their feet playing percussion instruments and dancing. 4652 Taney Avenue, Alexandria, VA, USA false MM/DD/YYYY 60 OPAQUE apuKoqgnVzYgXmdLTmCV126794