Village Green Rhythm Collective

Of Middlebury, Vermont

The Village Green Rhythm Collective exists to support drum and dance events, drum workshops, and drum circles in Vermont and surrounding areas. We encourage local individuals who wish to offer their talents and knowledge to email us - if you would like to participate by teaching a workshop, helping to organize our monthly GAIA Dance events, or take classes with us, please join our Yahoo Group!

IMPORTANT NEW UPDATES!!!

Join us for the following upcoming drum/dance events - we hope to see you there!

DECEMBER DRUM & DANCE (Rhythmic Arts) is our LAST open circle-style gathering at the Bridge School of Middlebury!

We will be ending the monthly drum and dance events in Middlebury in order to provide consistent drumming classes for those who wish to enhance their skills in both listening and playing. Updates are made regularly to the Yahoo Group, so we encourage you to join (the form is above - just add your email address and click!) Once a date and time is arranged we will also post it here.

And looking ahead to July 30 - August 3, 2008: join us in New Lebanon, NY (6 miles outside of PIttsfield, MA) - join us for a family-friendly, summer intensive gathering of music, motion, voice, and inspiration at a beautiful mountain retreat:

Monthly Rhythmic Arts Circles:

Our monthly circles are ending after the December meeting.

In order to offer the Vermont drumming community more of what it wants and needs, we will be offering classes in Ghanaian drumming starting in February 2008. For more information, join our Yahoo Group.

Joshua Levin's fantastic article on Drum and Dance

Steve Trombulak and V. Josselyne Price, co-founders, rip it up at the Firedance Festival in Santa Cruz, CA

VGRC Instrument Bulletin Board

For those who own percussion or drums and want to sell them, or for those who are looking for affordable instruments, we will have a list here of folks who are offering up items for sale! In order to have your item listed, please email us with the following information:

Your name
Your item with a full description
Your preferred contact info (this will be posted on the web page.)

All inquiries about the instruments will go directly to those selling, and once they are sold all you need to do is notify us to have the listing removed. Hopefully, this bulletin board can serve as a community tool that will enable everyone to participate in drum circles more fully!

Click here to view the bulletin board!

Webspirit New Age Resources- New Age Spiritual and Personal Growth Resource. EBooks for free download and purchase. Topics include Personal Transformation, How To, Alternative and Natural Healing, Contemplation and Inspiration, Internet Marketing, EBooks, Music and more great titles added all the time.
www.webspirit.com

http://www.wicca-chat.com - a great source of links, information and community!

PERCUSSION available for sale!

We have found excellent djembes from Mali and Senegal. If you are looking for a good djembe that is affordable, contact us via the VGRC Yahoo Group for more information about the instruments.

What's going on with our friends?
A list of drum & dance events around the Northeast

We gotta admit, we're pretty lucky. We have great friends who often come from all over the Northeast, and sometimes further, to drum and dance with us. We want to help promote their work, too - so please check these out, and if you will be traveling near these places, support the rhythmic communities here! And if you would like to have your community event posted here, send us the info and we'd be happy to do so.

Click here to view what's going on!

EDC Weekend Photo