🪕 Drumming with the UT Middle Eastern Ensemble
Artistic practice is such an effective tool for coping with stress, sadness, and everything else life throws at us. Community connection, music, movement, and PLAY are what make life worth living!
We are currently in the thick of holiday season which can be simultaneously joyous and sorrowful. Please remember to gather with people who love you, play in the spirit of curiosity, sing even if you don’t know the notes, and dance at least a tiny bit everyday.
Lately one of my favorite stress-preventing practices has been to play frame drum and sing. And if I get to play with other people: the healing is magnified!
Performing this song “Erzurum Çarşı Pazar” with the University of Texas Middle Eastern Ensemble in our Fall concert last month was so magical! I just love the experience of collective singing while playing a 10-beat rhythm on frame drum.
🧿 You can have a similar experience inside The Cohesion Collective as we continue learning to play frame drum and sing with a Guest Artist Workshop taught by Faruk Çalışkan!
Learn the vocal melody, lyrics, and hypnotic 10-beat rhythm for the moving Turkish song “Erzurum Çarşı Pazar” (also known as “Sari Gelin”) with bağlama player and scholar Faruk Çalışkan.
✨ Apply for The Cohesion Collective TODAY to join us in time for this live masterclass!
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About Faruk Çalışkan:
Çalışkan currently continues his studies as a doctoral student at the Department of Musicology and Music Theory at Istanbul Technical University. He has been working as a research assistant in the Department of Musicology since 2018 and has been a visiting researcher at the University of Texas Ethnomusicology Department in 2022 with a TUBITAK doctoral research scholarship. Relevant research areas based on his studies from the undergraduate period to the present; In the context of performance studies, baglama performance and cultural identity practices, popular music studies in Turkey and şık music studies are included. He also continues to work in the field of performance as a professional baglama performer and trainer in the Istanbul music market.
Playing frame drum and singing is one of the things I love most about gathering with members of The Cohesion Collective. If you’d like to experience the joy of making music and dancing in community, I invite you to Apply TODAY to join us inside The Cohesion Collective!
There’s no obligation to join and when you apply you’ll get access to my advanced private training where I explain exactly how I train people to become brilliant bellydancers!
Warmly,
April Rose and The Cohesion Collective Team 🌹
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