Toom-bah-ee-lero

Toom-bah-ee-lero

Grace Note Preschool 

West African Call and response chant. 

Djembe Drum, Drums and Voice 

The children in the video participate a call a response song called Toom-bah-ee-lero. They can sing back the response from the teacher, play drums or dance along with the song. This is wonderful for social interaction with other students they can see if the other children like to play the drums or sing. This can cause a positive interaction from the students. It also gives the children a chance to hear and participate in a music from another culture and could spark interaction from the children to learn more. They could study what the culture is like for other children their own age in the country that the songs are from. 

Abe Mac Artifacts

Abe Mac

Abe Mac performance at the Coco Bar in El Paso TX

Website://www.abemacband.com/

Native American Flute Music collected by Frances Densmore

Native American Flute Music collected by Frances Densmore

Steven Gigante - Native American Flute

Mike Brecker - Drum

Native American music is and has been a major part of Native American culture. Anthropologist Fancis Densmore collected this music that is performed by Steven Gigante and Mike Brecker. She spent time in the early 20^th century collecting the songs of the Dakota Indians. She was instrumental in recording and transcribing their music. Through her efforts she would help the Native Americans preserve their heritage and culture. This would allow other generations of musicians to study and recreate the music Fancis Densmore had transcribed. It is vitally important to recreate music and learn how to incorporate the music of a native culture into our own.