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Mountain Harvest Festival Workshops
Mountain Harvest Festival Workshop Schedule
The Mountain Harvest Festival is pleased to offer the following workshops to enhance your experience. We are grateful to each of the presenters and to the Valley Organic Growers Association for helping to put this together. We are especially grateful for the work of Pat Frazier of Peace and Plenty Farm.
Each workshop costs $35, plus a small booking fee (unless otherwise noted). The major portion of the fees go to each presenter, with a small portion going to the Mountain Harvest Festival and, where appropriate, VOGA, to help offset production costs.
Registration and tickets are available for each through a link displayed on the website. Tickets are sold through Brown Paper Tickets (the small booking fee).
Thank you for support of the Mountain Harvest Festival, and your neighbors on Colorado’s Western Slope.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
AGRICULTURAL
Creating and Maintaining Pasture Health for Grass Fed Buffalo and Elk
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Location: High Wire Ranch
27497 Buffalo Road
Hotchkiss, Co.
Presenters: Dave and Sue Whittlesey of High Wire Ranch
Description: Pasture health is the heart of quality grass fed operations supporting large ruminants. High Wire Ranch has been raising buffalo and elk on several hundred acres on Redlands Mesa outside of Hotchkiss for over a decade. Their lush pastures are a sight to behold! Learn how to determine appropriate plant species, and their establishment in the high desert environment; signs of healthy pastures; challenges in maintaining pastures to support large ruminants while allowing for rotations of animals and pasture growth.
Contact information: Sue or Dave Whittlesey, (970) 835-4600
Buy tickets for Creating and Maintaining Pasture Health for Grass-fed Buffalo and Elk
AGRICULTURAL
Introduction to Permaculture
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Presenter: Wind Clearwater of The Oasis – a permaculture farm and garden.
Location: Town Park in Paonia
Description: Permaculture is the use of intentional observations and patterns from nature to create intelligent, earth friendly designs in our farms and landscapes. Learn the basics of the permaculture principles and have some hands on fun in this workshop. Wind Clearwater is a permaculture landscape designer familiar to many North Fork Valley residents. His workshops are always lively and informative.
Contact: Wind Clearwater, (970) 433-8611
theoasis@paonia.com
Maximum participants: 15
Buy tickets for Introduction to Permaculture
AGRICULTURAL
Value Added Products – A Vertical Integration Approach
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Delicious Orchards
39126 Highway 133 - 1 mile west of Paonia
Paonia, CO 81428
Presenter: Jeff Schwartz of Delicious Orchards
Description: Discover the concept of “vertical integration”, a term to describe the process of taking raw agricultural products from field production to a value added product for the retail market.
Jeff Schwartz is the owner and operator of Delicious Orchards, a lovely orchard and retail operation just outside of Paonia. His many entrepreneurial adventures are cutting edge material for the next step in profitable agriculture – retail value-added production.
Contact: Jeff Schwartz, (970) 527-1110
www.freshapplecider.com
Maximum participants: 15
Buy tickets for Value Added Products - A Verticle Integration Approach
AGRICULTURAL
Zero to Sixty : How Colorado’s Wines Became World-Class in Less Than a Decade
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Glennie Coombe Gallery
138 Grand Ave, Paonia
Presenter: Tynan Szvetecz, Executive Wine Sommelier, Senior Wine Instructor
Description: Why should you care about Colorado Wine Country? Because for the first time in history, Colorado is making world-class, hand-crafted wines.
Learn how Colorado's unique micro-climates are making it possible for artisan wine makers to create well balanced, nuanced and food-friendly wines. Yes, there's even a striking Terroir that imparts qualities to these wines you can't find anywhere else.
Walk through a technical tasting of six local wines wines and learn to distinguish tastes by region of origin. Bread and cheese will be served with the class. Fee includes wine, food, handouts and tuition.
Class Content:
Buy tickets for Zero to Sixty: How Colorado's Wines Became World-Class in Less Than a Decade
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
AGRICULTURAL
Sustaining Organic Production – Cover Crops, Green Manures, Composts & Crop Roations
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Location: Paonia Town Hall Community Room
Presenter: Dr. Ron Godin, CSU Extension Agronomist for Sustainable & Organic Ag
Description: Sustaining agricultural production in the arid west with alkaline soils and alkaline irrigation water is challenging in the best of years. Maintaining the soil ecosystem with organic matter using a diversity of inputs is a must for growing high quality produce on a sustained basis. Dr. Godin will give a brief overview of soils, crop nutrition and sustainable integrated organic production systems and will cover in detail the use of cover crops, green manures, composts and crop rotations for long-term organic production sustainability.
Maximum participants: 20
Buy tickets for Sustaining Organic Production - Cover Crops, Composts & Crop Rotation
AGRICULTURAL
Beyond Bread: Wood-fired, Brick Oven Workshop
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Small Potatoes Farm
40575 O Road, Paonia, CO 81428
Presenter: Monica Wiitanen
Description: Baking will take place on Saturday during the farm tour. On Friday afternoon participants will learn about baking in a wood-fired brick oven and help prepare pizza dough and sauce, at least one other dough and garbanzo flour socca batter, make up dry mixes, lay the fire -- generally get things ready for baking the next day. They are welcome to return for the lighting of the fire later Friday night and can arrive before the tour begins on Saturday to get as much of the full baking experience as they like.
Contact: Monica Wiitanen, (970) 527-4051
Maximum participants: 6
Buy tickets for Beyond Bread: Wood-fired, Brick Oven Workshop
AGRICULTURAL
Dried Flower Creativity
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Zephyros Farm and Garden
11466 3725 Road, Paonia
Presenter: Daphne Yannakakis of Zephyros Farm and Garden
Description: The beautiful flowers of summer fade all too soon. Learn how to preserve their lovely blooms in creative and decorative arrangements. Learn which flowers work best for this application, successful drying techniques, and artsy design ideas! Daphne Yannakakis is the master cut flower grower at Zephyros Farm and Garden. This is a rare treat to experience her expertise in the creative vein.
Contact: Daphne Yannakakis, (970) 527-3636
Maximum participants: 10
Buy tickets for Dried Flower Creativity
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
ART
Painting With The Model Workshop
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Glennie Coombe Community Room, 138 Grand Ave
Presenter: Michael G Mitchell
Description: We will be painting from a live, clothed model in costume. I will be painting in oils to demo my painting process. Individual instruction will be provided as needed. For intermediate to professional level artists. BRING YOUR OWN MATERIALS AND EASEL. Michael G Mitchell is a portrait and figurative artist, and an instructor at Mesa State College. See Michael G Mitchell's art on Facebook.
Maximum Participants: 12
BUY TICKETS for Painting From The Model
MUSIC
Acoustic Blues Guitar Workshop
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: KVNF Radio, 233 Grand Ave, Paonia
Presenter: Howard Berkman
Description: The Acoustic Blues Workshop details exercises, techniques, and tricks of the trade to help one get around the guitar fret board and play within the blues idiom. Howard Berkman, who not only gave guitar lessons to renowned acoustic picker Steve Goodman but shared the stage with many of the blues greats during his early days in Chicago, has been immersed in music his whole life. He is now actively performing, recording, and teaching in Western Colorado. This workshop affords an opportunity to learn from somebody who is an accomplished guitarist with tons of experiences and fascinating stories, and who is anxious to share his knowledge.
Maximum Participants: 20
Buy tickets for Acoustic Blues Guitar Workshop
MUSIC
World Percussion and Rhythm Theory Workshop: Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Drumming
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: KVNF, 233 Grand Ave, Paonia
Presenter: David Alderdice
Description: This workshop will mainly focus on traditional rhythms and grooves of North African, Persian, Arabian, Balkan, and Turkish orgin as well as some modern applications and musical sensibilities from these regions. Traditionally these rhythms are played on frame drums (including the tar, the riqq, and the daf) and goblet drums (including the dumbek, darbuka, and zarb), but can be adapted to all hand drums. bring your drum or use one of ours. This workshop is open to beginners and will help to broaden our musical awareness and rhythmic understanding while making these ethnic rhythms fun and accessible.
David Alderdice has been studying percussion, drumming, and rhythm vividly for over twenty years. He is the drummer/percussionist for the musical sensation FEAST, as well as many other diverse musical projects including playing with the amazing vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Beth Quist. He is a widely sought after educator of the percussive arts, living here on the Western Slope.
Buy tickets for World Percussion and Rhythm Theory: Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Drumming
MUSIC
Combining Inspiration and Technique: The Basics of Song Writing
Time: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Blue Sage Center for the Arts,
Presenter: Gabrielle Louise
Description: Aspiring songwriters can learn some basics of the craft and musicians who are already writing songs will get a few new pointers from award winning singer/songwriter Gabrielle. This workshop will cover: setting lyrics to music; possible song forms; re-harmonizing a melody; journaling techniques; and starting from the song title.
Buy tickets for Combining Inspiration and Technique: the Basics of Song Writing
LIFESTYLE
Bio-Diesel as an Alternative Fuel
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Paonia Teen Center
Presenter: Chris Garre, Tour Manager, The Gabrielle Louise Show
Description: This workshop explains, step by step, how to change over to bio diesel as your automotive fuel source. There will be a DVD presentation and actual demonstration with a vehicle equipped for running on vegi oil.
Background: The world-wide shortage of energy, combined with the increasing impacts of global warming, will pressure many people to compromise their dreams and aspirations – that is, unless the individual is innovative enough to see these changes, not as restrictions, but as opportunities to explore beyond the normal institutions of our time. The success of The Gabrielle Louise Show is a story of environmentalism and economy but, above all else, one of innovation. To find out more about this interesting workshop visit: www.gabriellelouise.com/veggie-workshop.html
Buy tickets for Bio-Diesel as an Alternative Fuel
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
MUSIC
Vocal Workshop With Beth Quist
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: KVNF Radio, 233 Grand Ave, Paonia
Description: This workshop will begin with basic warm-ups and the relation of vocal health to body health using a template of Egoscue postural alignment. Then, using traditional songs, we will introduce ornaments & vocal placement tools from the Balkans, India, and the Middle East. We will complete the class teaching the improvisational technique of Circle Singing (as applied in Bobby McFerrin performances).
Beth Quist is an extraordinary vocalist who has performed as lead soprano and instrumentalist with Cirque du Soleil’s “KA”, and has performed with Grammy winner Bobby McFarrin since 1996.
Buy tickets for Vocal Workshop with Beth Quist
MUSIC
World Percussion and Rhythm Theory Workshop: Solkattu, South Indian Rhythm Theory
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: KVNF, 233 Grand Ave, Paonia
Presenter: David Alderdice
Description: This workshop will explore the South Indian rhythmic language through traditional and modern theories using rhythmic vocalizations along with some hand clapping patterns called talas. While vocalizing rhythmic patterns over a steady group of hand gestures, we start to embody different time cycles, as well as some applications which arise in all music and rhythmic art, including the naturally occurring universal concepts and uses of poly-rhythms, cross-rhythms, syncopation, and others. This fun, phrase-centered approach to rhythm is a great way for anyone who wants to further their relationship to rhythm and its inherent musicality, and absorb rhythmic ideas in their purest forms while deepening an inner trust and a rhythmic confidence.
This workshop is open to beginners and is great for all artists, drummers, musicians, dancers, composers, and, well... all humans.
David Alderdice has been studying percussion, drumming, and rhythm vividly for over twenty years. He is the drummer/percussionist for the musical sensation FEAST, as well as many other diverse musical projects including playing with the amazing vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Beth Quist. He is a widely sought after educator of the percussive arts, living here on the Western Slope.
Buy tickets for World Percussion and Rhythm Theory: Solkattu, South Indian Rhythm Theory
The Mountain Harvest Festival is pleased to offer the following workshops to enhance your experience. We are grateful to each of the presenters and to the Valley Organic Growers Association for helping to put this together. We are especially grateful for the work of Pat Frazier of Peace and Plenty Farm.
Each workshop costs $35, plus a small booking fee (unless otherwise noted). The major portion of the fees go to each presenter, with a small portion going to the Mountain Harvest Festival and, where appropriate, VOGA, to help offset production costs.
Registration and tickets are available for each through a link displayed on the website. Tickets are sold through Brown Paper Tickets (the small booking fee).
Thank you for support of the Mountain Harvest Festival, and your neighbors on Colorado’s Western Slope.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
AGRICULTURAL
Creating and Maintaining Pasture Health for Grass Fed Buffalo and Elk
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Location: High Wire Ranch
27497 Buffalo Road
Hotchkiss, Co.
Presenters: Dave and Sue Whittlesey of High Wire Ranch
Description: Pasture health is the heart of quality grass fed operations supporting large ruminants. High Wire Ranch has been raising buffalo and elk on several hundred acres on Redlands Mesa outside of Hotchkiss for over a decade. Their lush pastures are a sight to behold! Learn how to determine appropriate plant species, and their establishment in the high desert environment; signs of healthy pastures; challenges in maintaining pastures to support large ruminants while allowing for rotations of animals and pasture growth.
Contact information: Sue or Dave Whittlesey, (970) 835-4600
Buy tickets for Creating and Maintaining Pasture Health for Grass-fed Buffalo and Elk
AGRICULTURAL
Introduction to Permaculture
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Presenter: Wind Clearwater of The Oasis – a permaculture farm and garden.
Location: Town Park in Paonia
Description: Permaculture is the use of intentional observations and patterns from nature to create intelligent, earth friendly designs in our farms and landscapes. Learn the basics of the permaculture principles and have some hands on fun in this workshop. Wind Clearwater is a permaculture landscape designer familiar to many North Fork Valley residents. His workshops are always lively and informative.
Contact: Wind Clearwater, (970) 433-8611
theoasis@paonia.com
Maximum participants: 15
Buy tickets for Introduction to Permaculture
AGRICULTURAL
Value Added Products – A Vertical Integration Approach
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Delicious Orchards
39126 Highway 133 - 1 mile west of Paonia
Paonia, CO 81428
Presenter: Jeff Schwartz of Delicious Orchards
Description: Discover the concept of “vertical integration”, a term to describe the process of taking raw agricultural products from field production to a value added product for the retail market.
Jeff Schwartz is the owner and operator of Delicious Orchards, a lovely orchard and retail operation just outside of Paonia. His many entrepreneurial adventures are cutting edge material for the next step in profitable agriculture – retail value-added production.
Contact: Jeff Schwartz, (970) 527-1110
www.freshapplecider.com
Maximum participants: 15
Buy tickets for Value Added Products - A Verticle Integration Approach
AGRICULTURAL
Zero to Sixty : How Colorado’s Wines Became World-Class in Less Than a Decade
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Glennie Coombe Gallery
138 Grand Ave, Paonia
Presenter: Tynan Szvetecz, Executive Wine Sommelier, Senior Wine Instructor
Description: Why should you care about Colorado Wine Country? Because for the first time in history, Colorado is making world-class, hand-crafted wines.
Learn how Colorado's unique micro-climates are making it possible for artisan wine makers to create well balanced, nuanced and food-friendly wines. Yes, there's even a striking Terroir that imparts qualities to these wines you can't find anywhere else.
Walk through a technical tasting of six local wines wines and learn to distinguish tastes by region of origin. Bread and cheese will be served with the class. Fee includes wine, food, handouts and tuition.
Class Content:
- History of wine making in Colorado
- Climate - how this affects the state's wines
- Basic label reading
- Overview of the area's wine regions
- Red wine grapes and styles
- White wine grapes and styles
- Regional wine and food - classic pairings.
Buy tickets for Zero to Sixty: How Colorado's Wines Became World-Class in Less Than a Decade
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
AGRICULTURAL
Sustaining Organic Production – Cover Crops, Green Manures, Composts & Crop Roations
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Location: Paonia Town Hall Community Room
Presenter: Dr. Ron Godin, CSU Extension Agronomist for Sustainable & Organic Ag
Description: Sustaining agricultural production in the arid west with alkaline soils and alkaline irrigation water is challenging in the best of years. Maintaining the soil ecosystem with organic matter using a diversity of inputs is a must for growing high quality produce on a sustained basis. Dr. Godin will give a brief overview of soils, crop nutrition and sustainable integrated organic production systems and will cover in detail the use of cover crops, green manures, composts and crop rotations for long-term organic production sustainability.
Maximum participants: 20
Buy tickets for Sustaining Organic Production - Cover Crops, Composts & Crop Rotation
AGRICULTURAL
Beyond Bread: Wood-fired, Brick Oven Workshop
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Small Potatoes Farm
40575 O Road, Paonia, CO 81428
Presenter: Monica Wiitanen
Description: Baking will take place on Saturday during the farm tour. On Friday afternoon participants will learn about baking in a wood-fired brick oven and help prepare pizza dough and sauce, at least one other dough and garbanzo flour socca batter, make up dry mixes, lay the fire -- generally get things ready for baking the next day. They are welcome to return for the lighting of the fire later Friday night and can arrive before the tour begins on Saturday to get as much of the full baking experience as they like.
Contact: Monica Wiitanen, (970) 527-4051
Maximum participants: 6
Buy tickets for Beyond Bread: Wood-fired, Brick Oven Workshop
AGRICULTURAL
Dried Flower Creativity
Time: 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Zephyros Farm and Garden
11466 3725 Road, Paonia
Presenter: Daphne Yannakakis of Zephyros Farm and Garden
Description: The beautiful flowers of summer fade all too soon. Learn how to preserve their lovely blooms in creative and decorative arrangements. Learn which flowers work best for this application, successful drying techniques, and artsy design ideas! Daphne Yannakakis is the master cut flower grower at Zephyros Farm and Garden. This is a rare treat to experience her expertise in the creative vein.
Contact: Daphne Yannakakis, (970) 527-3636
Maximum participants: 10
Buy tickets for Dried Flower Creativity
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
ART
Painting With The Model Workshop
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Location: Glennie Coombe Community Room, 138 Grand Ave
Presenter: Michael G Mitchell
Description: We will be painting from a live, clothed model in costume. I will be painting in oils to demo my painting process. Individual instruction will be provided as needed. For intermediate to professional level artists. BRING YOUR OWN MATERIALS AND EASEL. Michael G Mitchell is a portrait and figurative artist, and an instructor at Mesa State College. See Michael G Mitchell's art on Facebook.
Maximum Participants: 12
BUY TICKETS for Painting From The Model
MUSIC
Acoustic Blues Guitar Workshop
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: KVNF Radio, 233 Grand Ave, Paonia
Presenter: Howard Berkman
Description: The Acoustic Blues Workshop details exercises, techniques, and tricks of the trade to help one get around the guitar fret board and play within the blues idiom. Howard Berkman, who not only gave guitar lessons to renowned acoustic picker Steve Goodman but shared the stage with many of the blues greats during his early days in Chicago, has been immersed in music his whole life. He is now actively performing, recording, and teaching in Western Colorado. This workshop affords an opportunity to learn from somebody who is an accomplished guitarist with tons of experiences and fascinating stories, and who is anxious to share his knowledge.
Maximum Participants: 20
Buy tickets for Acoustic Blues Guitar Workshop
MUSIC
World Percussion and Rhythm Theory Workshop: Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Drumming
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: KVNF, 233 Grand Ave, Paonia
Presenter: David Alderdice
Description: This workshop will mainly focus on traditional rhythms and grooves of North African, Persian, Arabian, Balkan, and Turkish orgin as well as some modern applications and musical sensibilities from these regions. Traditionally these rhythms are played on frame drums (including the tar, the riqq, and the daf) and goblet drums (including the dumbek, darbuka, and zarb), but can be adapted to all hand drums. bring your drum or use one of ours. This workshop is open to beginners and will help to broaden our musical awareness and rhythmic understanding while making these ethnic rhythms fun and accessible.
David Alderdice has been studying percussion, drumming, and rhythm vividly for over twenty years. He is the drummer/percussionist for the musical sensation FEAST, as well as many other diverse musical projects including playing with the amazing vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Beth Quist. He is a widely sought after educator of the percussive arts, living here on the Western Slope.
Buy tickets for World Percussion and Rhythm Theory: Mediterranean & Middle Eastern Drumming
MUSIC
Combining Inspiration and Technique: The Basics of Song Writing
Time: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: Blue Sage Center for the Arts,
Presenter: Gabrielle Louise
Description: Aspiring songwriters can learn some basics of the craft and musicians who are already writing songs will get a few new pointers from award winning singer/songwriter Gabrielle. This workshop will cover: setting lyrics to music; possible song forms; re-harmonizing a melody; journaling techniques; and starting from the song title.
Buy tickets for Combining Inspiration and Technique: the Basics of Song Writing
LIFESTYLE
Bio-Diesel as an Alternative Fuel
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Paonia Teen Center
Presenter: Chris Garre, Tour Manager, The Gabrielle Louise Show
Description: This workshop explains, step by step, how to change over to bio diesel as your automotive fuel source. There will be a DVD presentation and actual demonstration with a vehicle equipped for running on vegi oil.
Background: The world-wide shortage of energy, combined with the increasing impacts of global warming, will pressure many people to compromise their dreams and aspirations – that is, unless the individual is innovative enough to see these changes, not as restrictions, but as opportunities to explore beyond the normal institutions of our time. The success of The Gabrielle Louise Show is a story of environmentalism and economy but, above all else, one of innovation. To find out more about this interesting workshop visit: www.gabriellelouise.com/veggie-workshop.html
Buy tickets for Bio-Diesel as an Alternative Fuel
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
MUSIC
Vocal Workshop With Beth Quist
Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Location: KVNF Radio, 233 Grand Ave, Paonia
Description: This workshop will begin with basic warm-ups and the relation of vocal health to body health using a template of Egoscue postural alignment. Then, using traditional songs, we will introduce ornaments & vocal placement tools from the Balkans, India, and the Middle East. We will complete the class teaching the improvisational technique of Circle Singing (as applied in Bobby McFerrin performances).
Beth Quist is an extraordinary vocalist who has performed as lead soprano and instrumentalist with Cirque du Soleil’s “KA”, and has performed with Grammy winner Bobby McFarrin since 1996.
Buy tickets for Vocal Workshop with Beth Quist
MUSIC
World Percussion and Rhythm Theory Workshop: Solkattu, South Indian Rhythm Theory
Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Location: KVNF, 233 Grand Ave, Paonia
Presenter: David Alderdice
Description: This workshop will explore the South Indian rhythmic language through traditional and modern theories using rhythmic vocalizations along with some hand clapping patterns called talas. While vocalizing rhythmic patterns over a steady group of hand gestures, we start to embody different time cycles, as well as some applications which arise in all music and rhythmic art, including the naturally occurring universal concepts and uses of poly-rhythms, cross-rhythms, syncopation, and others. This fun, phrase-centered approach to rhythm is a great way for anyone who wants to further their relationship to rhythm and its inherent musicality, and absorb rhythmic ideas in their purest forms while deepening an inner trust and a rhythmic confidence.
This workshop is open to beginners and is great for all artists, drummers, musicians, dancers, composers, and, well... all humans.
David Alderdice has been studying percussion, drumming, and rhythm vividly for over twenty years. He is the drummer/percussionist for the musical sensation FEAST, as well as many other diverse musical projects including playing with the amazing vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Beth Quist. He is a widely sought after educator of the percussive arts, living here on the Western Slope.
Buy tickets for World Percussion and Rhythm Theory: Solkattu, South Indian Rhythm Theory
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