9th Vibration Store, Guelph will be hosting workshops in September and October 2015! Check out our upcoming Workshops in Haliburton, Lakefield and Guelph!

Hello to everyone!  How has your summer been so far?  

Ours has been good, very busy and that is a good thing.  We are pleased to announce that we have connected with a very cool store here in Guelph called 9th Vibration. www.vibration.com  If you are in the area be sure to drop in to see all of their offerings.  If you are wondering about registering for one of the workshops, John has left samples there for you to see.

The third week of August we will be on the road again teaching workshops in Haliburton at the Visible Voices Open Art Studio and Lakefield at Celtic Connection.  For more information you can see details of these workshops posted on the Workshop tab.

On the last weekend of August we will be at the Peterborough Folk Festival.  If you are there, be sure to drop by the booth to say hi!    


Hope the rest of your summer is great!

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I thought you might like to see some hand painted drums that are on display and for sale at the Rails End Gallery and Art Centre in Haliburton.  www.RailsEndGallery.com

Below are some pictures of our latest road trip.  It was full of activity!  We met new friends and hugged old friends.  The activity started with our friends in Sudbury, then to the Fairy Fest in Lakefield, and Haliburton.

Here is John welcoming everyone to the workshop and saying thank you for being invited.  It was lots of work, fun and so great to meet everyone.  

Here are some people working hard, cleaning gourds, putting skins on drum frames, it was such a nice day some went outside to clean their gourds.  

Busy cleaning gourds.  Everyone is wearing a mask so they do not inhale too much gourd dust.

Here Joanne is sanding her ocean drum skin edges to prepare it for decorating.

Celtic Connection store in Lakefield, Ontario held it's first annual Fairy and Dragon Fest.  It was a very warm day, so the fairies and their friends came out in full force.  A success!  Next year's date is already set for Saturday, June 11, 2016! 

Children blowing gigantic bubbles with fairy attendants to oversee their work.

This dragon spent the day greeting the children.  As you can see they loved him!  It must have been so hot in there!

The Gourd Hand Drum Workshop at the Visible Voices Art Studio was an all day affair.  That same day it was drop in art day, so much creativity happening on that day!  Below are some pictures of the day's events.  

John is explaining how to put rope on the drum between the upper and lower ring, before tightening.

Working outside to clean the gourds and wrap the rings with colourful fabric.  Just after this picture was taken it started to rain and we had to move everything inside.

So many beautiful gourds to choose from.  The green tape is used to draw on to mark the holes to be drilled for the noise makers in a rain gourd.

Hope you enjoyed reading about our recent road trip.  We had fun and are looking forward to our next on the road adventure!