drumHeart at the Women's Drum Center annual concert 2023

drumHeart performs 4 songs from their repertoire. They open with Boba Beats, composed by Alex to remind us of the joy that drumming can bring. Matrimony continues the arrangement. This song was first played at Alex’s wedding while Alex and her husband Steve entered on stilts. The rhythms represent the masculine and feminine energies of the Yin and the Yang; they synthesize, representing the wholeness and strength of marriage and partnership. The third song is Suingue, originally taught to drumHeart by its first director, Colleen Haas; a combination of rhythms derived from the large genre of samba reggae (pronounced heg-ay) The set closes with Macrou - a traditional rhythm from the Susu ethnic group of West Africa. The song is usually played for social events at the time of a full moon, typically played on hand drums. drumHeart developed this arrangement to be played on the stick drums. It creates an exhilarating finish to the set!