On Saturday, I attended the Muhtadi International Drum Festival. I've been attending this festival for years, but this was only the second time I attended with my drum. As a hand drummer, the festival is particularly significant to me, but I remember being very drawn to it even when I knew nothing...

I just wasn't feeling the mojo of the Remo djembe I bought last Saturday. I played it every night since getting it, played it by myself, with M, listening to youtube videos of djembe players. Something just wasn't quite right. I knew it the first night it was home, and it only got reinforced as the...

Sometimes something just grabs me and compels me to act. As I sit here now, writing this, I'm still not entirely sure what it was that made today the day I would buy a djembe. It was certainly an impulse buy, as just yesterday I didn't know that I would own one today. But it was by no means done in...