Aerial Fabrics and African Drumming

In the beginning of October, Gabbi and Jacqui were invited to do an aerial fabrics demonstrations at the Honolulu Youth Festival that took place on the state capitals grounds. They were very excited to be able to perform again in front of an audience, although it wasn't nearly as exciting as it was for their performance in May (and it was much hotter!!!!)





The Samadhi crew has been using this bamboo structure when they don't have trees to hang the silks from. It was a pretty cool work of engineering. I think that they used it one time since this demonstration and word has it that they are retiring the structure for safety reasons.

Auntie Chandra with the ladies.

Auntie Jamie with the class forming a "star"

Gabbi on djembe and Jacqui on the doununs at drum lessons.

The ladies have been taking lessons for a few months now and love playing the drums. Jacqui has a natural ability on the doununs (says her teacher) and Gab on the djembe. It is so amazing how the remember the rhythms far better than I do. It has been very cool for me to learn the drum rhythms and be able to put them together with the dances that I learn. Very cool!! One of the our dance teachers is convinced that we should put their show on the road and freak people out. She thinks that people wouldn't believe that "a couple of young white girls" could play the drums so well. It was pretty funny. She was convinced they had been playing the drums for years.