Miranda Rondeau is an internationally recognized devotional singer, musician, and frame drum artist. She has been teaching the craft since 1999, as encouraged by her late teacher Layne Redmond, author of the seminal book, When the Drummers Were Women.
Miranda has created and teaches a repertoire of frame drum "circle songs" as a way of sacred remembrance. She performs in a ceremonial context, playing for rites of passage and communal bonding.
She performed together with her students for house recitals, and public events.Miranda has taught in Germany, Spain, The Netherlands, Canada and throughout California.
She taught at The Asheville Percussion Festival and has performed at Tamburi Mundi Frame Drum Festival, Germany, International Biblical Frame Drum Festival, North American Frame Drum Festival, California and the First American Frame Drum Gathering.
She has studied with various teachers including David Kuckherman, Alessandra Belloni, Zohar Fresco and is currently studying with Yshai Afterman.
Miranda is often a guest presenter or drum teacher for online schools or programs like the Shift Network with Krista Holland, Global Rhythm Sangha with Christine Steven,
School of the Sacred Wild, New Earth Mystery School and women’s online retreats
Miranda created and maintains the online presence for “Women Frame Drumming,” dedicated to Layne Redmond.
She is dedicated in reclaiming the frame drum as a sacred tool of remembrance
Live Recorded Signature Frame Drum "Circle Song" Workshop
Honoring the Elements Through
Drumming, Stepping and Singing
with Miranda Rondeau
" ELEMENT SONG"
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Pre-requisite - Either Heart of Frame Drum Introduction/Know how to play the Element Song / Know how to play patterns upon hearing them recited.
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Join Miranda from anywhere around the globe
to drum and chant in honor of the Elements.
Circle songs are songs you can share in your circles or for yourself.
Songs in honor of the earth, life and the heart.
This workshop was part of the Heart of Frame Drumming Signature Introduction since 1999, now offered on it's own.
Layne Redmond passed down that the drum strokes are connected to the drum strokes. This was passed down from Hamza El Din, a well respected Nubian musician, singer and frame drummer.
I created a chant as a way to give thanks and honor to the elements that make up our world.We could not live without the existence of the elements as we are made up of earth, water, fire and air.
Layne Redmond's core way of teaching is the integration of stepping with the drumming.
It is part of her legacy. She passed down a lineage of drummers who can walk and drum.
She taught how to move in ritual procession and class we'd walk in a circle.
This entrains us with the walking pulse and with each other.
It activates the hemispheres of both sides of our brain.
It also prepares to be able to process or walk in a circle.
Our whole body gets to participate.
Our feet become our metronome, heart beat and foundation.
We hold not only a drum, we hold all that it represents. It becomes our tool of remembrance.
:: Session includes ::*
*Drum Invocation
*Symbology/Voice of the drum
*Stepping, vocal and hand practice as Layne Redmond taught
*Learn a simple rhythmic pattern
*Integrate stepping with pattern
*Spontaneous Call and Response vocals
*Learn the Element Song with an Intro and an ending
*The main focus will be learning the Element Song and developing a relationship to the rhythmic pattern.
*Supplemental Videos
*PDF
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