One Drum

' Don’t let the name One Drum confuse you. This group has more drums per square inch than any band you have seen. The ubiquity of the drum worldwide, however, is the conduit for this powerful Milwaukee-based band to explore and celebrate music from the many continents. With six to eight members in the band all singing and playing, their effort is a constantly expanding musical quilt woven from multilingual three and four-part vocal harmonies, African, Latin and Brazilian dance forms and instruments like charango, dijeridoo, oud, berimbau and kalimba. Drums have their own languages, and virtually every One Drum song is built upon the wooden, ceramic and metallic foundation of drum talk. Their musical performance is like a conversation – deeply interactive with an uncertain outcome that transforms the performers. The conversation touches the audience as well.

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