Warm Your Soul for Winter with 3 amazing offerings from Yamama, a six-woman World Music and Dance ensemble based in Bozeman! All 3 for $40 or $15 per class!

*1:00-2:00PM: West African Dance Class
Ginny Watts has studied dance for over 45 years. She has studies world dance at California State University, Fullerton with members of the world-renowned Aman Dance Troupe. She has studied and performed with Dance Masters Youssouf Koumbassa from Guinea, West Africa, and Djeneba Sako from Mali, West Africa, and with John Compton and Rebaba, from San Francisco, and Delilah, from Seattle. Ginny has taught and performed from Massachusetts to Hawaii and Montana to California. She has been teaching and doing public presentations in world dance for over 30 years.

*2:30-4:00PM:Drum Circle
As one-third of the 6-woman World Rhythm ensemble Yamama!, Stormi Oshun and Shaun Phoenix are partners in life and in leading Many Hands Light Work, an organization which dreams of building and strengthening heartful connections between people and communities, using drumming and other soulful expressions to heal the world. They offer West African hand drum lessons, facilitated drum circles, and shamanic healing work as well as their popular bucket drumming workshops. They are also the co-founders and former leaders of Chicks With Sticks, Montana's premiere marching bucket drum corps. In all their work, Stormi and Shaun are dedicated to celebrating life's diversity in its many forms, and are active in social justice work.

*7:00PM: Performance Yamma members Galen Eldridge, Lee Micken, Stormi Oshun, Shaun Phoenix, KO Spear, and Ginny Watts offer a performance sure to light the sacred fire within as winter approaches. Deeply moved by the complex and rich experiences of World rhythms and melodies, Yamama! blends drumming, song and dance into a rich and joyful evening guaranteed to keep the chill away.

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