Thread: Any serious tabla player in the house?

Im one Im one! I just started out, tho. Hey, are there any all female ME bands out there? It seems so rare to see a woman on the stage unless she is dancing or singing.

Ha, we need a little tabla smilie that does Carmines Rak star ending.

I certainly wouldn't call us a band -- but my troupe's drum circle has 4 hard-and-fast-can-always-count-on-'em members: 1 man, 3 women. Of those 3 women, two of us are also dancers, so we tend to do the hat trick: this piece I'm a dancer, that piece I'm a drummer. ..c:: It can get tricky! We have a couple of other men and 3-4 other women (again, the women are all dancers as well) who join us on zills or tambourines or as just basic rhythm drum players at different times.

Here is a link to the ME musicians group!

http://www.bhuz.com/index.php?cmd=/p...ps/view/id_58/

Hmm, we have a mixed group here in germany:
http://www.habla-ala-tabla.de/

Jennifer James-Long, who used to own Bhuz, is/was a serious drummer (she played on the several-year-old Aziza CD and throughout the Middle East).

Seems to me there's a female group of musicians in the southwest that I ran across lately, but I can't recall their information at the moment.

My friends' band: www.ishtar-music.com

Hey, I'm a woman and I've been drumming for many years. ..g.: You can see me drumming in this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VADWE7yIico

This clip features a performance by tribal fusion group Luminessah and a very charming raqs sharqi performance by a 5-year old dancer. I'm drumming and wearing an Egyptian dress and red head scarf.

http://sazlar.com/
What about Sazlar?
they are from New Mexico I think.
A great band.

Tahneen, the all girl, all American, middle eastern band, l0 years plus performing in the San Francisco Bay area and performing at Rakksah for the last 8 years. Mostly Egyptian music, plus a few Lebanese and Turkish songs.

Originally Posted by dunyah

Hey, I'm a woman and I've been drumming for many years. ..g.: You can see me drumming in this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VADWE7yIico

This clip features a performance by tribal fusion group Luminessah and a very charming raqs sharqi performance by a 5-year old dancer. I'm drumming and wearing an Egyptian dress and red head scarf.

That is great. I wanna learn to drum that drum sitting in my living room.

Sazlar is fabulous. These women are the coolest. If you ever get the treat of watching them or performing with them...take it!! They rak!!

--Samira
www.bellydanceintensive.com

http://www.inanna.ws/
Inanna, Sisters in Rhythm is an all-female percussion group out of Portland, ME that have been together nearly 20 years. They lean more toward West African & Brazilian rhythms, with a Middle Eastern touch, but it's all very danceable. In fact, you can't attend one of their shows & NOT dance.

Originally Posted by sumayasaahir

Im one Im one! I just started out, tho. Hey, are there any all female ME bands out there? It seems so rare to see a woman on the stage unless she is dancing or singing.

How about Susu Pampanin and the Cairo Cats? Remember Mary Ellen Donald?

I think it's probably hard for a woman to be accepted in the male dominated professional Egyptian musician scene, no matter how good she is.

I used to belong to an amateur ME drum band many yonks ago. I enjoyed it for a while, then my drum broke and I didn't get back into it. I wouldn't mind trying my hand (no pun intended) at it again some day, though.

Great drumming, Dunyah!