Big Trip To Ghana

Shorty is in Ghana meeting with the carvers that we deal with from both Ghana and Ivory Coast. They are trading drum making techniques. Shorty has been to market several times. He's been looking for new products. Sandy is at home sending out the orders. Bob Heath is helping and making drum rings. Rebecca is also helping tightening, cleaning and packing djembes and all orders. Goatskins.com

New Drums from Ghana

We have new Kpanlogo drums and lots of miniatures in from Ghana. Shorty is there visiting now. The Kpanlogos are not on the website so give us a call if you are interested in them. www.goatskins.com and 800-549-3966

Cowhides and Krins

We just received a shipment of Cowhides and Krins from Guinea. These are not on our shopping cart so if you are interested please give us a call at 800-549-3966. www.goatskins.com. I also noticed that our large and medium Ghana Djembes are not on the shopping cart. I am working on fixing this problem right now.

Drum Circle Facilitator's Guild Conference

The 6th Annual Drum Circle Facilitator's Guild Meeting is coming up next month. It is a very cool conference. There are several workshops that cover topics of interest and importance to facilitators and drummers. DCF Business Development, Program Design & Activities for Specific Populations, DCF Techniques and Strategies, DCF Mastery.

Shorty and I have attended as vendors for the past two years. We'll be there again this year. We will have a sample of all of our drums and our percussion instruments. Hopefully we will have some new stuff. Shorty will be there with the drum tuning and building expertise that he is so willing to share. And of course if you are attending the DCFG you can make arrangement for us to bring your order to the event. Thereby saving shipping.

The accommodations are pretty nice. We stayed in a suite with a kitchen and a living room. There's an inside Olympic size pool and Jacuzzi. There's a beach too. The resort rates are very reasonable and make the cost of the conference affordable. This is the week to register if you want the accommodations discount.

The drumming and percussion is superb and a real treat. I hope to see you there. Go to this link for all the information dcfg.net.

Mini Djembe from Ghana

Shorty asked our regular carver in Ghana to produce a nice djembe for children or very small hands. They finally came in. The measure 7" diamter X 9" height.

They can be purchased by going to this link.
http://www.goatskins.com/Specials.htm

Goatskin Sale

Shorty has found a few haired goatskins from Ivory Coast that are lower quality than he likes to sell. They are better than seconds and very usable, just not up to Shorty's standards. So we reduced their price. $12 for 1 and $50 for a 5 pack. These skins have wrinkles, folds, creases. Some are dirtier than usual. They are usable. Shorty will give them the same warentee, if you don't like it we will replace it, but in this case with these lower quality skins you will need to pay the additional postage for an exchange. These can be purchased on our website: http://www.goatskins.com/Specials.htm


We also have the regular high quality skins and seconds too. www.goatskins.com.