A FREE Drumming Workshop + Live Music at UVic
Sunday, September 27, 2026 • 1:00–2:15 pm
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall • UVic
Doors open at 12:30 pm • Free Sunday parking
FREE ADMISSION • DRUMS PROVIDED • BEGINNERS WELCOME
Join Drum Victoria for a special afternoon of drumming and live music featuring Lauri Lyster of Winter Harp, Robin Layne of the Rhythm Makers, Locarno and the BC World Music Collective, and Fusion Chibcha, a local Colombian drumming, song and dance group.
We’ll start with a fun, beginner-friendly drumming workshop. I’ll provide the drums and guide everyone through the rhythms step by step. No previous drumming or musical experience is needed.
Then enjoy live performances featuring percussion, marimba, Colombian rhythms, song and dance, before we bring the afternoon together with a fun percussion finale.
Sunday, September 27, 2026 • 1:00–2:15 pm
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall • UVic
Doors open at 12:30 pm • Free Sunday parking
FREE ADMISSION • DRUMS PROVIDED • BEGINNERS WELCOME
Join Drum Victoria for a special afternoon of drumming and live music featuring Lauri Lyster of Winter Harp, Robin Layne of the Rhythm Makers, Locarno and the BC World Music Collective, and Fusion Chibcha, a local Colombian drumming, song and dance group.
We’ll start with a fun, beginner-friendly drumming workshop. I’ll provide the drums and guide everyone through the rhythms step by step. No previous drumming or musical experience is needed.
Then enjoy live performances featuring percussion, marimba, Colombian rhythms, song and dance, before we bring the afternoon together with a fun percussion finale.
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Special Guest: Lauri Lyster
Lauri Lyster is a versatile percussionist well known to BC audiences through Winter Harp. She’ll bring her own musical voice to Gathering of the Drum as one of our featured guest performers. She is a percussionist with the Vancouver Opera Orchestra, and an occasional extra for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with jazz bands, chamber ensembles, dance groups and recorded for television and film.Click here for her website. |
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Special Guest: Robin Layne
Robin Layne is a percussionist and marimba player known through Robin Layne & the Rhythm Makers, Locarno and the BC World Music Collective. Robin will bring marimba into the afternoon, perform solo and with the group, and join us for the musical finale. A Juno-nominated artist, Robin has worked with many of Canada's finest global artists and toured throughout China, Europe, Mexico, USA and Canada. He is the senior percussion instructor at the Sarah McLachlan School of Music. Click here for his website. |
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Special Guest: FUSION CHIBCHA
Fusión Chibcha is a Colombian Folklore group from Victoria, BC. Its main purpose is to share and represent the country’s diversity with a variety of traditional Indigenous and Afro-Colombian dances and music performances. Four members of the group will perform the famous song "El Pescador" with traditional drums. Click here for their website. |
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UVic School of Music
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