Friday, August 23, 2013

Pics, Pics, Pics, Pics, Pics, Pics, Pics, Pics

Attention!!! We are cooking up a major post with lots of videos, but in the mean time wanted to throw some pics your way.  Take a look. Let us know.  Do your thing.

Our dance teacher Rosangela Silvestre.  A true revolutionary and inspiration

the great Broomfield himself, hard at work on his Belizean drum

The view from Gabi's house

Broomfield trying out Gabi's pad

Percussion teacher, David, with his NEOJIBA percussion babies! 


With our master drum teacher Gabi Guedes after our first lesson.  This picture might be an album cover one day.

Taking shelter from one of Salvador's flash rains 

With the great Everton Isiodor and some of his students at NEOJIBA, Sesi

Broomfield ponders his freshly learned Candomble rhythms while looking out from Gabi's balcony

Fulbright superstar Keane Southard searches the heavens for inspiration

the Neojiba orchestra in action...


GGH demonstrating some timpani fundamentals in broken, broken, BROKEN Portuguese

Gabriel again at NEOJIBA's nucleo demonstrating some Rite of Spring bass drum techniques

Ricardo Castro, founder of NEOJIBA learning the basics of caixa (or snare drum)

Our incredible land lady Soiane helps us decode some Yoruban

 Two teachers from NEOJIBA take in the sunset after a long day of teaching.  The woman on the right, Priscila is the site coordinator of the very impressive Sesi nucleo where we spent two days auditing a pedagogy seminar
Sistema Percussion teachers unite! 


Outside of Gabi's Candomble house after an extremely educational ceremony


Our lovely landlady, Soiane. Last meal before the Candomble!


The drums Gabi Guedes' hands have been chewing on for the past x amount of years. 


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