Carlos Aldama’s Life in Batá: Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum (Book Presentation)

Thursday April 5, 2012, 7-9pm
Carlos Aldama’s Life in Batá: Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum.
Book Presentation and Performance at California State University, Monterey Bay Music Hall (building 30).

Sacred Music, Sunday Fellowship

Sunday April 22, 2012 2-4pm
Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco.
Carlos Aldama and Umi Vaughan will present their new book Carlos Aldama’s Life in Batá: Cuba, Diaspora, and the Drum. There will be live batá drumming and orisha dance as well as a Q&A and booksigning.

Afro-Brazilian Rhythm Workshop: Afoxé, Samba, and Beyond!

Part of the CSU Summer Arts Festival 2012 @ CSU Monterey Bay
Course Dates: July 16 to July 29, 2012
Application Deadline: May 18, 2012

All students will learn percussion and key concepts of Brazilian music. The range of genres covered in the course will offer opportunities for harmonic musicians to incorporate their main instrument into the full ensemble, and instructors are prepared to work many different instrumentalists.