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Nature’s Retreat has attracted
Alycin
Hayes,
Sound Percussionist and member of the London-based
Rhythm Sisters
to the July 20th-22nd weekend. Alycin will have just nicely
settled back into her Canadian
roots after spending several months in the USA performing
with a wide range of musical groups that have included
African, jazz, Celtic, Latin, reggae, folk, rock and her own
original percussion music with her group
Chimo
Gypsies.
Visit
www.alycinhayes.samsbiz.com.
At
Nature's Retreat, on
Friday, July
20th,
Alycin is offering her
Healing Inner Rhythm Expression Workshop
to teach us how to freely express and heal our inner rhythms through
music and traditional rituals that include movement,
vocalization, breathing, visualization and healing stones.
Participants will receive and give healing vibrations
balancing the Yin compassion and Yang dragon.
The
percussion instruments that Alycin plays are
electric berimbau, bongos, ashiko, African
djembe, Fijian log drum, Canadian wooden spoons,
Thailand’s mong-yai drum, gongs,
chimes, Karen tribal elephant bells and various
other intriguing instruments she has designed
and made herself.
Alycin
Hayes was raised in a theatrical family in Stratford, Ontario. Duke
Ellington introduced her to music on her family's piano when she was
just three years old. Ravi Shankar dropped by with his sitar to
share his insights on Indian percussion music with her when she was an
impressionable 13 years of age. Since then she has spent most of her life
adventuring around the world learning to play numerous unusual percussion
instruments.
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Alycin first splashed into the international press when at 15 she took an
impromptu swim with the Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
She has traveled overland through Europe, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan
and Pakistan, studied yoga in India with Swami Gitananda, watched
the the sunrise over Mt. Everest, canoed through Columbia, Ecuador, Peru,
Bolivia and Brazil's Amazon basin, danced with firewalkers in Fiji,
studied capoeira in Brazil with Mestre Sombra, ridden her American
Indian horse in a 50 mile endurance race, searched for King Halle
Selassie's Barbary lions in Ethiopia and studied Thai temple drumming
while designing musical instruments for elephants in the Thailand
Elephant Orchestra.
Alycin has performed music in United States, Canada, Iceland and Thailand
with a wide range of musical groups that have included African, jazz,
Celtic, Latin, reggae, folk, rock and her own original percussion music
with her group CHIMO GYPSIES. She also facilitates Inner Rhythm Sound
Expression Workshops in colleges and retreats in North America.
Alycin performs her special effects percussion with the Suwannee rock band
Progressive Madness as well as with the Brazilian Samba-Reggae ensemble
Bahia Viva! and the Canadian women’s drumming group The Rhythm Sisters
with whom she’ll also be recording this summer. Visit
www.rhythmsisters.org. |
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