VFTN is honoured to be part of Percussion for Peace this Saturday. We will contribute the Gogo drummers from Tanzania, CCAMS drummers from Cambodia and a solo piece from yours truly.
Great story of an artist who is drawing every single item in his grandfather’s shed to honour his memory.
The wonderful sound of Ethiopian gospel music.
A powerful coming together of people’s in song! 3000 from different backgrounds, singing in 3 languages – come together in Haifa to sing of a hope for the future.
Lyrics – Sometimes I lay under the moon, And thank God I’m breathing, Then I pray, Don’t take me soon, ‘Cause I am here for a reason, Sometimes in my tears I drown, But I never let it get me down, So when negativity surrounds, I know some day it’ll all turn around because ….
A CD & DVD package
from Cambodia
Garlands for Ashes tells the story of a community of children in Phnom Penh rescued from unimaginable situations, who are nurtured back to life, given a home, hope and an artistic voice. Recorded in Phnom Penh and the Mekong delta in Cambodia this package of CD and DVD will take you to the very heart of the Cambodian Christian Arts school so that you can experience in video and pictures, sounds, songs and dances, the Khmer people of Cambodia. This blog tells the unfolding story of our partnership with this amazing community. Read More
Recently came across some footage from a dance called “Called To Be’ filmed in Phnom Penh during the recording of Garlands for Ashes.
A number of nations came together on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming last year, to bless the land and the Arapaho and Shoshone people.
Drummer John Hendrickson from Kansas City took a drum idea I had captured on video and played his own wonderful part to the original groove. During this season of ‘being home’ it is exciting to see the incredible creative ideas that the internet allows us.
The incredible story of a singing revolution. This is a brief trailer telling the story – “The Singing Revolution shares how, between 1987 and 1991, hundreds of thousands of Estonians gathered publicly to sing forbidden patriotic songs and share protest speeches, risking their lives to proclaim their desire for independence. While violence and bloodshed was the unfortunate end result in other occupied nations of the USSR, the revolutionary songs of the Estonians anchored their struggle for freedom, which was ultimately accomplished without the loss of a single life.”
It was wonderful to meet Andreas Keller who told me about a Swiss tradition of blessing the land using a milk churn funnel.
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