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Prairie Percussion!

Check back here for events and updates on the Prairie Percussion Workshop and other local percussion events in Winnipeg

Events

Prairie Percussion!

Check back here for events and updates on the Prairie Percussion Workshop and other local percussion events in Winnipeg

Events

What is Prairie Percussion all about?

SKILL DEVELOPMENT

SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION

The workshop is designed to teach basic skills to new players and to create challenges for more advanced students.

SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION

Instructors in every area of percussion give students opportunities to focus on specific skills with local professional musicians.

GUEST LECTURES

SPECIALIZED INSTRUCTION

GUEST LECTURES

A variety of special guests will join us on Orchestral Percussion and Timpani, World Percussion, Drum Set and More!

An interesting thought...

“Are there female performers on all kinds of instruments? Certainly… [but] there must have been a fine spirit of enterprise in the soul of a woman who took up the study of the tympani. How many jobs are there for the female tympanist? What is the outlook for the female bassoonist? Does anyone wish to see a woman playing the bass drum or an E-flat tuba?… Well, it is a all a matter of custom. Students in such institutions as the Juilliard School of Music see women playing in their orchestra continually and think nothing of it.”

William J. Henderson, Dean of New York Music Critics was quoted making this statement in 1935.

This quote raises a few questions, and definitely my eyebrows, and I wouldn’t go so far as to say that the subject is closed, but as a woman who plays a bass drum on a regular basis, I am happy to report that, 80 years later,

it doesn’t seem to bother anyone…!