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the area where we will gather for the Love of Drums & Trees
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Ulster
County Fairgrounds * New
Paltz, NY Tourism * Autumn
In New Paltz, NY
"Drummers Care About The Future of Trees "
Drummers of the World, Musicians Of Wooden Instruments, Earth Stewards, Environmentalists, Visionaries, Educators, Artists, Instrument Makers, Energy Workers Join Us In Creating A New Mindful Model To Ensure A Sustainable Future For The Love of Drums and Trees. Let's Unite Together For This Powerful Historical Multi Cultural Gathering To Honor, Preserve, Celebrate, Appreciate Our Lineage, Our Present Time And To Create Our Future Wherever We Are In The World of Rhythm. It's Our Time, It's Our Turn To Carry On !
Ubaka Hill, Founder and the MWDG Advisory Council Members
One Of A Million ~ Count Me In !
We need your help to get the word out ! Word-of-mouth is the best in addition to social media. Sponsors and volunteer support is also needed. Let's make this the largest and greatest gathering of conscious and aware drummers in history. Let us know how you can help bring the MWDG to Life this Autumn ! Count Me In!


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Your support makes it possible for us
to maintain the web site, organize "MWDG2013
Community Meet Ups"and Tree plantings, maintain the domain names,
PO Box, phones, communication, resource materials and other expenses
required for an initiative of this magnitude. You can make tax deductible
donations to the Million Women Drummers Gathering. We
are affiliated with the Institute For The Musical Arts,
Inc, (IMA) a not-for profit organization.
DONATIONS: Check or Money Order can be made to: MILLION WOMEN DRUMMERS Mail: Million Women Drummers PO Box 97, Saugerties, New York 12477
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refreshments, offering discounts on your services and
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Support for the MWDG has come form: MWDG Advisory Council Members, Institute for the Musical Arts, Inc., Omega Institute (NY), Harmony House (NY), Retts Productions (NY), Michelle Crone (MA), W. NY MWDG2013 (NY), MWDG Ohio(OH), DrumZzone (NY), Women's Drum Center (MN) Central Florida Drum Circle (FL), LPSS (NY), Maine/New Hampshire MWDG2013), MWDG Australia, Rhythm Rave Boston (MA), The Colony Cafe (NY)
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2013 Local Events
Another way to support your local MWDG 2013 is
to attend or organize "Meet Ups" and local Rhythm Tree Planting events. Also
place a link on your web site to the MWDG 2013 Home Page. Initiate
and request interviews and presentations for written, internet and
cable formats.
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Million Women Drummers Gathering 2013
and the local events leading up to the gathering
Q. What is The Million Women Drummers Gathering 2013?
A. The Million Women Drummers Gathering 2013 (MWDG) is an invitation to conscious action, a global call for individual and collective action for a sustainable futre of our drums, wooden musical instruemtns, and the musical traditons of the world and the Trees they are made from. The MWDG is envisioned and inspired by musician-drummer Ubaka Hill and led and organized by women drummers of world rhythm and music togehter with all who care about the future of Trees. The MWDG initiave is a creative collaboration and partnership with our local communities, businesses, organizations, schools, environmentalists, drummers and musicians of wooden instruments to cultivate Tree planting and World Tree Rhythm Circles in local communities around the world to inpire a "new mindful model". Local "Meet Ups" and events will lead up to the MWD Gathering and Summit of a million women drummers, friends of Trees and family. and celebration.Q. Where will The Million Women Drummers Gathering 2013 be located ?
A. The location of the Million Women Drummers Gathering 2013 will in New Paltz, New York the weekend of October 11-13, 2013. The open air MWDG Gathering will be at the Ulster County Fairgrounds in New Paltz, NY. The location of the MWDG Global Women Drummers Summit will be announed soon.Q. What is the connection of Trees to Drumming?
A. As women who love our drums, we are aware that Trees are cut to make our Drums possible. We know that the quality of air, the health of our environment and our overall well-being depends upon living Trees. We express our gratitude for the wood of the drums we love, a gift from Mother Earth, by each of us planting a single Tree. Planting a million Trees worldwide increases the awareness of our symbiotic relationship with Trees, the lungs of our Mother Earth, and our love for these Trees that provide us with so much, including the drums and other wooden musical instruments for which we have such passion. A million women together with mindfulness and conscious action can birth a forest of Trees for the health of our world, for a sustainable future for our drums, wooden musical instruments and the music that comes from them. For all of our relations, and for the life force that comes alive through our Drums. One million Trees planted one by one. One Woman, One Drum, One Tree
Q. Is the MWDG 2013 for women drummers only?
A. The Million Women Drummers Gathering 2013 is envisioned, seeded, cultivated and led by women drummers worldwide. The Global MWD Women's Summit is for women drummers, environmentalists, educators and players of wooden instruments. The Local Community World RhythmTree events and The Gathering Celebration in 2013 are for All Drummers of all ages, all members of our local and global communities and for all of our relations.Q. When will the MWDG local events begin?
A. MWDG "Local Events" began in 2011 and will culminate at the 2013 Summit and Global Gathering Celebration. Local and global events, and registration information will be posted on this web site and on the Official MWDG 2013 Facebook Group and Community Pages.Q. How can I, my group, my community, my country be involved in local events and in the 2013 Global Celebration Gathering and become One Of A Million ?
A. There are many creative and exciting ways to be involved in both your local and global communities. You can begin by telling the drummers and people in your local community who care about the environment and sustainability, about the MWDG 2013. You can initiate and participate in local "MWDG Ups" and Tree Planting Events. Become a member of a MWDG World Rhythm Tree Branch in your community, city, country and help organize your "MWDG Branch" to participate in the Summit and Global Gathering Celebration in 2013. You and your drumming circle can join the Official MWDG 2013 Facebook Group for inspiration and information to help organize a local or global "Branch" for 2013. Volunteer in your local "Meet Ups", Rhythm Tree Planting Events, and fundraising campaigns. Volunteers are always needed and appreciated.
Enjoy this YouTube Playlist about Drumming and Drum Makers Around The World
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and MWDG Live Streaming Channel
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Lengue Tree -West Africa (Djembe Drum)

MUSIC OF THE TREES
Ash - Canada / US
Birch - Canada / US
Black Walnut - Canada / US
Cedar - Canada / US
Cherry - Canada / US
Djala - Africa
Dougoura - Africa
Guenou - Africa
Iroko - Africa
Lengue - Africa
Mahogany - Tropical
Mango - Tropical
Maple - Canada / US
Melina - Africa
Pine - Canada / US
Poplar - Canada / US
Rubber Tree - Tropical
Shesham - Pakistan
Shore - Africa
Tweneboa - Africa
Willow - Canada / US
Wooden Drums are some of the oldest types of musical percussion instruments and are played either with a stick or the hands. Hundreds of different types of drums exist. Most consist of a membrane (animal skin) stretched over a frame of wood, metal, clay and in more recent years, fiber glass and plastic.
Although the names of drums differ from culture to culture, the categories of the shape of drums include cylindrical, goblet, frame, kettledrums, and tongue drums.



ISTRUMENTS OF TREES
Popular Hand Drums (Djembe,
Conga, Ashiko, Bata, Cohon, Taiko, Dundun , Frame,
Pahu)
Cello
Violin
Acoustic Guitar
Harp
Acoustic Piano
Clarinet
Balophone
Didgeridoo
Upright Bass
Tongue Drum
Castanets
Clave
Cajon
Drum Sticks, Mallets
Dulcimer
Bagpipe
Oboe
Bassoon
Flutes
Recorders
Lute
Accordion
Marimba
Bass
Viola
This is a short example. If you don't see a Tree or the Wooden Instrument you know of, let us know.
* I.M.A
