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Drummers are as fit as star football players
A new research suggests that rock drummers must have the same stamina as Premiership footballers. In an hour of performing at a concert, a drummer can burn between 400 - 600 calories.
It is hoped that the results of this study, can be developed into programs for overweight children uninterested in sports.
Clem Burke, the drummer for Blondie has taken part in this study. A new research suggests that rock drummers must have the same stamina as Premiership footballers. In an hour of performing at a concer... more -
Batala Empowerment
The Batala Percussion band is an all women international group consisting of 300 members worldwide. The band was originally founded in France in the 1990s and spread through to the UK, Belgium, Portugal, Spain and eventually onto Brazil.
The DC Chapter of the band is only a year old and now includes up to 45 members. Wanna join? You'd have to get on the waiting list first!
More info on the band : http://www.batalawashington.com The Batala Percussion band is an all women international group consisting of 300 members worldwide. The band was originally founded i... more -
NEW YORK STREET PEOPLE
WHY ARE THEY ALL SITTING ON THE STREET?
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Taiko Drum Festival brings Cheer to Old Island of Exile
In olden days, going to Sado Island generally meant one of two things: exile or gold. Sado Island, the 6th largest island of Japan, was for a long time not the pleasure excursion that is today. During the Heian Period (794-1192), Sado was often the dumping ground of political exiles from the Kyoto capital. The trend continued for nearly a thousand years up until 1700 with a scattering of dissent poets, irate Buddhists monks, and even an unfortunate emperor.
In 1601 gold was discovered and a new breed of exiles was flung upon the island: convicts and homeless. The gold came under the ownership of the Tokugawa Shogunate Government. No gold-digging prospectors or women of low virtues were allowed to clutter up the island. It was strictly controlled for the sake of the Shogunate’s coffers. Hard work and deadly misery not sudden fortune was the fate of these hard-pressed workers.
In more recent times, Sado became infamous for North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens. Lying off the coast of Niigata in Northwestern Japan, it was in convenient reach of North Korea.
Given the island’s rather grim history, it would seem a strange place to hold a music festival celebrating taiko drumming and the earth itself. Yet this is exactly what happens every summer in the normally sleepy town of Ogi in the South-Eastern section of Sado. In olden days, going to Sado Island generally meant one of two things: exile or gold. Sado Island, the 6th largest island of Japan, wa... more -
Country's Stephen Cochran, Alabama Productions, Damon Zex, Play Lab Records
A Natalie Paige Bentley Film, 'City of Motherly Love' the story of a mother's spiral into anger and self-destruction after the shooting death of her son. Multi-media, make-up artist, performance artist Damon Zex, deriving much of his creative expressionism from German Expressionism and Surrealism. Dance music record company from Australia, Play Lab Records, featuring new single release, 'Disco, Disco'. Kentucky born Country music recording artist on Aria records, Stephen Cochran. A Natalie Paige Bentley Film, 'City of Motherly Love' the story of a mother's spiral into anger and self-destruction after the shootin... more
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Country music singer Stephen Cochran, live concert and music video
Kentucky born country music singer, Stephen Cochran (www.stephencochran.com), signed to Aria Records Nashville, 'Redneck, Rock & Roll Son Of The South (performed at Jamboree in the Hills in Ohio 2007)' and 'Friday Night Fireside' with his band New Country Outlaws. Check the latest musical artists song releases on Apple's iTunes, at: http://www.actorschecklist.com/resources/itunes.php Kentucky born country music singer, Stephen Cochran (www.stephencochran.com), signed to Aria Records Nashville, 'Redneck, Rock &am... more
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The Soundtrack of St. Petersburg: Rick
Rick earns a living on the streets of St. Petersburg, Fla. by playing the drums.
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Drumming Rabbits - Usagi All Female Taiko Group (Tokyo Design Festa)
This footage is from the Tokyo Design Festa of the female Taiko Drum Group known as Usagi. Usagi means rabbit in Japanese.
http://usagi-8.com
This footage is from the Tokyo Design Festa of the female Taiko Drum Group known as Usagi. Usagi means rabbit in Japanese. ... more -
Rock Band Sandbox in The Hub, thriller The Collective, comedy from ACTORSandCREW.c...
Clips of Indie mystery feature, The Collective, entered in the Brooklyn International Film Festival, has a screening date set for June 5 at Brooklyn Lyceum Theater. Experimental coldwave, rock, electronica, drum band from New South Wales, Sandbox -- "Everything Starts In The Sandbox." Comedic video entertainment from ACTORSandCREW, a networking and employment service for entertainment professionals in all categories. Clips of Indie mystery feature, The Collective, entered in the Brooklyn International Film Festival, has a screening date set for June... more
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Skepticynic...an innovative rock band with a style of their own.
About Skepticynic
<<< Skeptical + Cynical = a disbelief in one's own melodramatic outcome >>> Cooper formed the basis of Skepticynic in his early years of high school. After joining up with Schyma in 2005, Skepticynic was born. Once the initial group was formed, a record began to take form. After recording at the renowned studio "Sugar Hill" in Houston the record was complete. Sales of the early EP were astounding for such a new group. Once the record took hold, a following began to develop. People from all over Katy as well as the greater Houston area fell into the groups new and appeasing sound. After two long years of playing shows, making recordings, and developing the band as a whole, a truly unique sounding band was complete. Now, with our new found partners at Gimme_Mo_Riffs Records, big things are soon to follow. About Skepticynic ... more -
Message Of Peace Through Drums from Swiss Chris During EuroRock World Peace Event
Swiss Chris, Musical Director and Drummer for five time Grammy winner John Legend performs at EuroRock World Peace concert in Florida this May 10th, 2008.
Swiss mixes his unique drum style with electronics and samples, triggered by his drumming to give a message of hope for peace in the world. Swiss not only plays his drums, but also turns the venue into an instrument as well! Some hidden and secret messages, maybe subliminal messages for peace throughout this performance that Swiss brings.
Swiss Chris is the founder of Saving With Instruments Samples and Soundz and is the MD of EuroRock. EuroRock is the bringing together of many different people from many different genres of music, religions, nationalities and colors in order to show the world that we can get along despite all of our differences. EuroRock is founded by music entrepreneur LouRicca
This year EuroRock featured musicians from different peace organizations and countries and tied in with Pangea Day activities that was broadcast all over the world. Swiss Chris, Musical Director and Drummer for five time Grammy winner John Legend performs at EuroRock World Peace concert in Florida ... more -
Guitar Hero 4 to add drums
Well it looks like Activision has a case of the "Anything you can do, I can do betters" with its latest iteration of the never ending Guitar Hero franchise. Not wanting to be outdone by original Guitar Hero and current Rock Band developer Harmonix, Activision has released the first photos of their version of a video game drum kit.
Look, I love the playing the fake drums on Rock Band, I really do! These drums really excite me, especially the addition of the cymbals. BUT! My apartment hates you Activision! How dare you make me add yet another ugly technicolor set of plastic drums that will no doubt only work with your game and your game only (I still hate you for not letting me use the incredible Rock Band guitar on Guitar Hero III) to my already crowded living room.
At least it's wireless. Well it looks like Activision has a case of the "Anything you can do, I can do betters" with its latest iteration of the never ending ... more -
Jason McGerr on the Drums
Jason McGerr at Studio X in Seattle as part of Death Cab For Cutie's Daytrotter session.
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Ladder drumming
Hands down the best in contemporary ladder drumming.
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Outtake [Jason on Drums] // Death Cab For Cutie // Open Windows
Jason McGerr is good at his job.
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Recycling 101: College of Menominee Nation sets example in EPA Great Lakes 2008 Ea...
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmaceutical waste to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
This is the first of several videos explaining the tribes numerous projects that included cleaning up the reservation, replacing gang symbols with Native American art, teaching youth about the legend of the sturgeon and its place in tribal culture.
In part one, the non-profit interfaith Earth Healing Initiative looks at the many recycling projects of the College of Menominee nation.
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin in Keshena is being praised for its massive cleanup projects during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge - involving over 100 projects across eight states that comprise the Great lakes basin.
The college of Menominee Nation held a pharmaceutical and electronic waste collection as part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
Other tribal projects during the challenge included the clean up of two reservation communities by tribal school students, the Menominee Teen Court Panel, and many other volunteers.
All classes at the tribal school taught the students about the sturgeon, that is a vital part of Menominee heritage.
Called the protector guardian of Menominee wild rice, the sturgeon used to spawn on the reservation until a man made dam blocked the route to ancestral spawning grounds.
The students whitewashed gang graffiti at a skateboard park replacing it with American Indian art.
"The younger students put their hands in paint and made flower hand prints on the wall," said teacher Beth Waukechon.
Adults participated in the challenge in a big way - as the tribe's Solid Waste and Recycling Department held curbside e-waste collections during Earth week 2008 - and all month accepted e-waste at the transfer station.
Native American and other students also made garbage monsters at the Keshena Public Schools with help from their parents using common every day trash from home.
More than four tons of e-waste and other recyclables were removed from the reservation during April.
At the College of Menominee Nation, over 23 pounds of medicines were turned in including 100 bottles of pills, more than 25 computers and dozens of related components like hard drives, printers, keyboards and speakers; televisions, radios, DVD players, 12 cell phones and over 100 small batteries.
Sponsors include the tribe's Community Resource Center, Menominee County Police, Menominee Tribal Police, Tribal Clinic Wellness Program (Maehnowesekiyah), Probation and Parole, Community Recycling Project, Recreation Department and the U.S. Post Office in Keshena.
While hosting the collection, the college's Implementing Sustainable Development class found out they won the National Recycling Coalition Bin Grant through Coca-Cola, said professor William Van Lopik, Ph.D.
"One of premises of the class is to do things, not just talk about what we are going to do and how the world is going to be changed, but having students do things," Dr. Van Lopik said.
The grant pays for 50 recycling bins.
The class has participated in the ten-week Recycle Mania project two years in a row that involves weighing recyclables as they leave the building. This year, the class ranked 136 out of 200 colleges and universities with 8 pounds of recyclables per person, beating out Ohio State and Georgetown, Van Lopik said.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA Region 5 office in Chicago, and the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office in cooperation with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment," said EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson of Marquette, Michigan. The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin contributed over 4 tons of electronic and pharmaceutical waste to the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Ear... more -
Alaska Native Singing and Drums
Alaska Native Singing and Drums. Visit:http://sitkapodshow.blogspot.com. Be sure to thank the Old Duffer!
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Indian Dancing
Alaska Native presentation of Cultural Dancing. For more great video visit: http://sitkapodshow.blogspot.com
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More Alaska Dancing
More Alaska Native singing and dancing. Be sure to visit:http://sitkapodshow.blogspot.com and thank the Old Duffer.
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