WILLITS, CA., 4/24/2 — This Sunday, curator Leyna Lightman and Ridgewood Ranch along with Mendocino Art Center, will present a Senegalese animal-to-drum making workshop, using the hide of a cow born and raised on Ridgewood Ranch in Willits. At the workshop, held at Ridgewood Ranch, one to three communal drums will be crafted and then donated to the Mendocino Art Center in Mendocino. On Saturday, May 2, the drum or drums will be activated in a ceremony and celebration at the Arts Center.
This Sunday’s drum-making workshop will be taught by Saliou M’Boup, a multi-instrumental musician specializing in West African and Senegalese drumming, songwriting and teaching. He will be joined by his father, Bara M’Boup, a storyteller of oral tradition and master drummer from Senegal, West Africa.
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