Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Dinner and Divinity - August 21st - Middle Eastern Drumming

This week's gathering was a small and intimate group. For dinner, we ate salad, baked macaroni, a healthy vegetable dish and crab dip and chips. After cleaning up and conversing, we started with some drumming. This week, D&D was attended by Luis Manuel, an accomplished drummer, who teaches drumming workshops all over the State. (You can check out his website here). He led the group in several different Middle Eastern drum patterns. During a Sufi pattern, the type that Whirling Dervishes dance too, I read some mystical writings to accompany the rhythms. The spontaneous collaboration was quite beautiful.


We finished the evening with some more music and interfaith readings, followed by a delicious dessert of peach cobbler / crisp.


Here are just a few photos from the night. See you at our next gathering, September 11th at 7pm!


A Portuguese vegetable salad.

Post dinner conversation.

Luis Manuel. Check out his site and videos here.

Hasta la próxima!

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