Knology INVITES you to
"get  rhythm!"

Popular Event Returns to Huntsville!

 

In 2007, the Panoply Arts Festival proudly introduced the Knology Get Rhythm! tent, an empowering, interactive event for the whole family which allows participants to experience rhythm’s universal language by way of a very compelling drum circle experience.  To bring this rather large undertaking about, some 80 percussion instruments are available for “temporary loan” in a come-one, come-all setting.  Parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, are all encouraged to bring the kids and sit in together on this special community-building exercise!

A little noise can be FUN, and the drum circle continues to be one of the most popular “happenings” at the three-day, outdoor ARTStravaganza.  TAC knows a good thing when we see it…and the Knology Get Rhythm! tent is back for 2010.  Look for its new location in EAST PARK (just off Church Street, SW and north of the Huntsville Museum of Art) and join in the performances, which are held on the half hour.

 

As always, our drum circle will be facilitated by Birmingham’s John Scalici, an Artist in Residence with the Alabama State Council on the Arts and internationally recognized speaker, musician, clinician, and master teaching artist.  The founder and owner of Get Rhythm!®, he achieved nationwide acclaim in 2000 when his Memphis-based blues rock band, “Junkyardmen,” was nominated for a Grammy Award for “Best Blues Album.”  He now has a new band called “Juka Tribe” which performs “original, world-infused rhythms with Southern Style.”

Says Scalici, “The mission of all Get Rhythm! programs is to empower its participants to discover the universal language of rhythm.  All individuals are rhythmic and need only to have it uncovered from within…The drumming circle is the vehicle for the journey.”  The circle’s accessibility is the key wherein a “musical experience is utilized to produce non-musical outcomes.”

Described as “recreational music-making,” “an uplifting and re-energizing event,” and also a stress-reducing “healing practice,” Knology’s Get Rhythm! is a great opportunity to immerse oneself in the dynamic beat of live drumming and to work off the nervous energy from the morning’s coffee!

 

 

 I'll see YOU in East Park!