About us
Offering events & workshops celebrating & promoting music, movement, learning, joy & connection.
Upcoming events
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- $30.00
Drumming Workshop with Pasha Cohen
Angela Alston, 368 Pleasant St, Malden, MA, USCurious about drumming?
Or would you like to learn more about playing with a group?
Join us for this two-hour workshop.
No experience needed!Register on Humanitix to reserve your spot!
Have your own drum? Bring it!
Need to borrow one of Pasha's? He'll have some loaners.
Ready to buy one? Yes, he offers beautiful handmade African drums for sale.If you drive: Park in the driveway to the left of the entrance (but NOT in the parking lot to the left of the driveway).
Public transportation: Take the T's Orange Line to Malden Center and walk ~five minutes (2/10 of a mile)
Meet Your Instructor
My name is Mitch “Pasha” Cohen and I have been drumming since age 12 when I discovered my lifelong passion for music.
I have been playing with the Boston Music Award winning group Mamadou for over 20 years and also play devotional Kirtan music with Adam Bauer and others.
I founded OmDrum in 2015 with the calling to show people how the drum can be used as very powerful medicine and a tool for meditation and self healing.
Learn more about Pasha on his website OmDrum1 attendee - $35.00
An Evening with Evie Ladin: "Sing, Clap, Move: Body Music" Workshop & Concert
Angela Alston, 368 Pleasant St, Malden, MA, USDo you love traditional music?
Is singer/songwriter your thing?
Join us for this rare opportunity to spend an evening with Evie Ladin. Clawhammer banjo, great singing, percussive dancer, Evie offers it all with warmly funny vibe.Come at 4:30pm for "Sing, Clap, Move: the Whole Body Music" workshop.
Or join us at 6:30 pm for the potluck, or at 7:30 pm for the concert only.
Better yet: do it all!No experience required for the workshop: all you need is curiosity!
Workshop: $20
Concert: $35
Fixed income? Please use code SUPPORTED to save $10.Reserve your spot on Humanitx.
What folks are saying
"Ladin's voice is a revelation. Clear, strong, delicate and emotive all at the same time, her exemplary examples of adult love songs deal with complicated subject matter, yet never lose their swing or get bogged down by maudlin sentimentality. In fact, the music is gorgeous."
NO DEPRESSION"Evie Ladin is a natural entertainer with a gift for infusing folk practices with contemporary verve."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEMore about the workshop
Beyond percussion, we use the term Body Music to include all the sounds made by your human instrument. Traditional styles of Body Music exist all over the world. Clap, step and sing, to literally incorporate the music into more than just your voice. Hold patterns that underlie your vocal improvisations, and learn to include and blend clapping and stepping with the sound of your singing for a total body and mind experience.
All you need are comfortable clothes and curiosity. No experience needed!1 attendee 
Circle Singing
Angela Alston, 368 Pleasant St, Malden, MA, USCome sing with us! We’ll create new music together by playing vocal games—short pieces with improvised harmonies and rhythms. Just follow the leader who creates the parts. It’s easy to follow along; it’s also fun to improvise, to create, solo or lead, and it’s all optional.
No experience needed! Think you can’t sing? No worries! All are welcome: we’re just here to play and connect.
Led by Peter McLoughlin and some of the folks who organize CircleSinging Boston.
Potluck snacks after! Please no peanuts!
If you drive: Park in the driveway to the left of the entrance (but NOT in the parking lot to the left of the driveway).
Public transportation: Take the T's Orange Line to Malden Center and walk ~five minutes (2/10 of a mile)## About CircleSinging Boston
On August 22, 2024 the Christian Science Monitor, an acclaimed international newspaper, published an article about CircleSinging Boston.
CircleSinging is a spontaneous, improvisational community-singing experience. In a circlesong, a leader starts by improvising a line of music and gives it / teaches it to one part of the circle. The leader then develops a second part that goes with the first and gives that part to another section of the circle. CircleSingers learn and repeat the exact part given to them. Soon we are singing a four-part (at least) chorus that has never been sung before. This chorus can support individual solos.
The effect: never-before-sung, wordless, fun songs, melodies, harmonies, and rhythms. The music may be glorious or goofy, complex or simple. Each circle is a unique experience, created by a spontaneously collaborating community.
A leader improvises; circlesingers learn and follow their parts. Voila! — a newly created choral piece. It’s easy to participate, you just repeat your part with other singers. Anyone can volunteer to lead, but there is never any pressure, no one is put on the spot. Their sessions include other vocal games and improv formats.
This is a “mistake-free” zone, for all levels of singers — we sing for the sheer fun of it! Sing beautiful harmonies without sheet music. Witness a circle of people creating music together. Participants find it a joyful, exhilarating (and many have said spiritual) experience. Improvising and music-making can give insight into other life issues. Many notice cooperation, teamwork, and community.They take inspiration from methods developed by the unique and illustrious Bobby McFerrin and his collaborators, and from CircleSinging groups in cities around the US and the world.
Their regular monthly gatherings happen in Cambridge, Arlington, Jamaica Plain, and Somerville.
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