28575: Wilcken (announce): DRUMS OF VODOU BOOK/CD SIGNING IN BROOKLYN (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From:  Lois Wilcken <makandal@verizon.net>

Author Dr. Lois Wilcken and Master Drummer Frisner Augustin invite you to a
summer afternoon party celebrating their classic book and CD set, The Drums
of Vodou.  The signing will take place at BCH Gallery, 1265 President
Street, near the corner of New York Avenue, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on
Sunday, July 16, from 2 to 5 pm.

Dr. Wilcken, a musicologist and arts administrator from New York City, and
Master Drummer Augustin of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, have collaborated to
present Haitian traditional music and dance for 25 years.  Together they
direct La Troupe Makandal, a performing and teaching company known to
aficionados of Caribbean performing arts in New York.  Dr. Wilcken currently
has an exhibit on Vodou music at La Médiateque Caraïbes in Basse-Terre,
Guadeloupe, and an online version can be viewed at www.lameca.org.  Mr.
Augustin has distinguished himself as the only Haitian artist to date to win
the coveted National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Arts (1999).  Their recent teaching accomplishments include a spring
semester residency at University of Florida in Gainesville, and an intensive
series of meetings with teachers and high school students through Carnegie
Hall¹s Global Encounters program.  They have conducted a weekly drum
workshop at Hunter College since 1983.

The Drums of Vodou is the only book of its kind.  The volume offers chapters
on instruments, song and dance, and social and historical context, but the
central chapter, with notations of sixteen different traditional drum
ensemble patterns, establishes the book¹s distinctiveness.  The compact disc
that accompanies The Drums of Vodou illustrates the book¹s content, but
spices it up as well with a bit of Vodou jazz.

Copies of other items of interest to students and enthusiasts of Caribbean
culture, besides the featured book/CD set, will be available.  For further
information, call 718-953-6638, or email makandal@verizon.net.


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