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The Elon University Percussion Ensemble will perform its next concert on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Yeager Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Free
Elon University Music Department
Prelude and Dance Ronald Lo Presti
Membrana Ronald Brown
In the Sea Jeannine Maddox Mariana Poole, marimba
Gainsborough Thomas Gauger Allegro Slow, hesitant Presto
Celebration Donna Bohn Feelin? Good Melancholy Celebration Carol Stewart, marimba
Xylophonia Joe Green
Raindance Alice Gomez Erin Ashley, marimba
Bangala David Childs
Lamban Traditional Sandy Blocker, jembe
Homage to Yoruba Traditional
Manjani Traditional
Elon University Percussion Ensemble Fall 2006:
Erin Ashley Matthew Christian Kate Ferris Kristin Lobiondo John Martin Josh Miller William Phillips Mariana Poole Julie Pope Amanda Prevette Rachael Sauer Evan Small Alexis Smith Carol Stewart
Jon Metzger, Director
Guest artist, Sandy Blocker, has studied and performed many different drumming traditions from around the world. He has traveled to West Africa to study jembe, dunun, balafon, and hunters (donso) music. He has performed with great percussionists such as Ladji Camera, Glen Velez, Michael Spiro, Madou Dembele, Alessandra Belloni, Soner Cicek, and Mohamed Da Costa. Blocker began his musical studies in the late 1960s by learning blues and field songs, hambone, and harmonica while working in tobacco fields in New Bern, NC. In the 70s and 80s, he studied tenor banjo with Big John Williams and played in string bands focusing on early jazz, blues, and the music of Django Reinhardt. Percussion became his musical focus in 1988. He began studying frame drums while working with Glen Velez. In 1989, he began studying jembe and dunun and playing for West African dance classes. He also studied drumming styles to accompany Sufi Zikirs. Blocker has performed and facilitated workshops at universities and in public schools throughout the southeast. Along with Eric Charry, he founded the Summer Jembe and Dance Institute. For ten years, Blocker owned and operated Talking Drums, a world percussion shop. His work as a craftsman on jembes and other world percussion instruments is widely known. Currently, he is an adjunct professor in the music department and an accompanist in the dance department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He also performs regularly with world music ensembles Global Repercussions, Tasmua, and Jaafar. Recent performances range from New York City’s Lincoln Center to weddings in Bamako, Mali, to back yard parties.
Pictures from this Fall Season:
Other guest artists/clinicians who have appeared at Elon include:
Christopher Deane, Mark Ford, Massie Johnson, John Tafoya, Carol Stumpf, Jimmy Finnie, Bill Rice, Arnold Sykes, Cort McClaren, Nathan Daughtry, Danny Frye, Rick Dior, and John Hanks.
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