Belly Dance! Drums! Samba! Bhangra! Tap Dance! Bagpipes! Fire-Twirling!

October 14 – It was unbelievable! My Belly Dancers and every flavor of percussion from Bhangra to African, Middle Eastern, Flamenco box, Caribbean, to Samba! The party went on and on, as wave after wave of performer hit the dance floor. Belly Dancers mixed with Brazilian Samba dancers, Venezuelan street salsa performers, even a tap dancer! My zills students played their little fingers to the bone testing their skills with the drummers.

It was a cultural fusion event never to be forgotten – we had Indian, Malay, African, South American, French, Chinese, North American, even an Afghani-Irish performer! At one point, one of the Indian Sikhs began to play his bagpipe along with the drums and the drenched crowd went even more nuts.

This was exactly the kind of scene that Paul Lau of the Tugu Drum Circle and I had envisioned when we hatched our plan – an artistic free-for-all that merged and meshed a variety of art forms – all through the catalyst of – Drums.

It was pure rhythmic euphoria!