Embodying Rhythm

Rhythm, Music, Education, Performance

September Update 2021 – Free Outdoor Marimba Concert in Paonia Town Park

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Hello out there!

It’s been awhile since we’ve sent out a newsletter, we hope you had a great summer and are doing well as the days shorten into fall time.

We are excited to be offering a free outdoor concert with our marimba band at the Mountain Harvest Festival this year, see full details below as well as the details for the upcoming World Music in Paradise Concerts.

This will most likely be the only chance to see the Embodying Rhythm Marimba Ensemble play live in person for the rest of 2021, so please tell your friends and bring out your families. There’s been some confusion in the promotion, but we will only be playing one concert and it is in Paonia Town Park at 1:30pm on Saturday September, 25.

Here is a video of us playing the 80’s hit song, Don’t You Want Me, from our last concert with a live audience in January of 2020.

Ladies, I’d like to personally invite you to the Women’s Drumming class at 12:30 on Sunday, Sept. 26th, at Paonia Town Park. I’d love to see you there and play some music together.

There are two World Music in Paradise concerts in October. The performers will be playing outside in Poulos Park in downtown Paonia. We are hosting a 22 member Balinese Gamelan Orchestra with traditional Music & Dance on Oct. 1st and a Flamenco Fusion quintet on Oct. 8th.

There’s also a new video in David’s Found Percussion Series where he is playing music on mushrooms – click here for a Porcini/King Bolete Groove.

And here’s a fun a play-along solkattu video that David and Arlyn recorded for a virtual summer-camp last year. Click here and be ready to jump up and join us in some solkattu.

take care,
Arlyn & David

 

-Upcoming Events Harvest Festival Events-

 

 

  • Sunday, Sept. 26, 10-11:30am Celtic Vibes and a few songs from the North Fork High School Choir, Paonia Town Park

 

  • Sunday, Sept. 26, 12:30-2pm Women’s Drumming with Arlyn Alderdice, Town Park – meet by the Teen Center. More info.

 

  • Sunday, Sept. 26, 2-3pm Rhythmic Playshop for all with David and Arlyn Alderdice, Town Park – meet by the Teen Center. More info.

 

 

– World Music In Paradise 2021-2022 Series –

Tunas Mekar Gamelan: A 22 piece Balinese Orchestra with traditional dancers.
Friday, 1 October, 2021. Poulos Park.
6pm and 8pm showings, limited tickets available.
Tickets $20.00 in advance/ $25.00 at the door/ $17 student (18 and under). Available at the Paradise and online.
–   10am workshops for either Gamelan Music or Balinese Dance at Poulos Park – the dance workshop participants will learn a traditional Balinese dance to the music created by the Gamelan Music participants music.

Miguel Espinoza Flamenco Fusión: Plays a blend of Flamenco, Jazz, European and Indian classical, as well as Afro-Caribbean-influenced styles.
Friday, 8 October, 2021. Poulos Park.
6pm and 8pm showings, limited tickets available.
Tickets $20.00 in advance/ $25.00 at the door/ $17 student (18 and under). Available at the Paradise and online.
– 10am workshop for ensemble & fusion playing at Poulos Park

Newpoli: The group stirs up a mesmerizing sound that melds traditional Italian folk music, Greek and Turkish Grooves, Mediterranean and Spanish colors, and a contemporary sensibility they call “Mediterranean Pulse – Ritmi della Terra.”
Friday, 4 February, 2022. Paradise Theatre.
6pm & 8pm showings, limited tickets available.
Tickets $20.00 in advance/ $25.00 at the door/ $17 student (18 and under). Available at the Paradise and online.
– 10am workshop Traditional Dances from South Italy workshop at Paradise Theatre

 

 

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There is a community of the spirit.
Join it, and feel the delight
of walking in the noisy street
and being the noise.

. . .

Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.

Flow down and down in always
widening rings of being.

-Rumi