Wednesday, February 23, 2011

What's New

Wow, wow, wow! This year 2011 has started in many memorable ways. Shorty finally visited Africa. He joined Jonathon Murray of Culture Shock Productions on a trip to Ghana, and met with his contacts from both Ghana and Ivory Coast. They talked about the drums and the skins that we sell to you. They toured Accra, attended drumming and dancing performances, visited friends and family and traded techniques for drum building.

Our website www.goatskins.com is changing. Links to our Drum Bags, Djuns, and Specials (check out the Krins there) are working. Soon you will be able to look at our drums by Country of Origin. Please be patient as change is slow. Hopefully we will be able to get more of our merchandise on the Shopping Cart.

The Drum Circle Facilitator’s Guild Annual Conference is coming to Myrtle Beach very soon. We will be there with a sampling of our drums and percussion instruments. Sandy is now a member of the DCFG board so she will be busy during the event. It has an awesome line up of workshops this year.

The Dollywood Festival of Nations is a lot of fun bringing in percussion and dance performers from all over the world. You can find our Djembe Drums & Skins booth on Main Street. Drum Glory of Knoxville, TN will facilitate drum circles every weekend.

Next we travel to The Ocala National Forest for Paralounge. Clint and Sharee have some new talent in store for us. The following weekend we will travel to Charlotte, NC for the DrumStrong drum circle. We donate part of our show proceeds to the Drums for Cure organization. Rebecca will be there performing and facilitating with her group Tuatha Dea.

We’ve had to juggle working with the responsibility that comes with life. We are so happy that our daughter Elanor was married in December. In January, however, Shorty’s brother passed away. Thank-you all for the kindness, understanding and patience that you have shown us these past few months. We appreciate your business and your friendship!

This is a sample of our newsletter. You can read the whole thing at www.goatskins.com.

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