Richard Reiter, pictured here with his djembe, helped guide the return trip to spring at our Winter Solstice Drum Circle tonight. About 20 of us got together with an assortment of djembes, dumbeks, tambores, talking drums and cowbells to chase away the cold of December and the recent round of snow and ice storms. This was the perfect antidote also to the depressing events on the economic front. We were all reminded of how good it is for people to get together in one room and make music together. There is something undeniably primal about it - to participate in something our species has done for millenia.How strangely remarkable that two local newspapers came to cover the strange phenomenon (people playing music together at the height of the retail season.)
Stop shopping! Make music!
Next month we'll move to the larger quarters at Encke Flowers for a salon concert.
We're looking forward to the spring, when we can move the circle outside of Tiger Lily and take over the streets of Teaneck.
