<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><font size="2">Aleeasar will hold an open Middle Eastern drumming and belly-dance practice at our house next Wednesday night, August 11th, 2010, from 7:00pm until about 9:30pm. If the response from last week's session is any guide, it promises to be a fun time for all! We had 15 people, including drummers and dancers (most of whom wanted to learn a little drumming to help with their dancing). All experience levels are welcome! We have several very experienced drummers and dancers who love to teach!<br><br>This time we will start with the drummers in the living room, while Gwen takes the dancers into the kitchen to practice their dance moves to the accompaniment of the drummers. Then, when the dancers are ready, they will come back into the living room with the
drummers and dance while we drum!<br><br>Bring your own drinks and/or snacks. If you have a favorite drumming stool, you may want to bring that along too. There should be a few loaner drums available if you don't own one yet. Other Middle Eastern style musical and percussion instruments are welcome too, though that is not our current focus.<br><br>No adult beverages or other intoxicants, please...."Friends don't let friends drum drunk!" While we have nothing against imbibing occasionally, we have found that it is easier to learn (and hold a beat) with a clear head. <br><br>If you need directions, please contact me off-list. If you would like to join the Yahoo Group we use, (where you will find directions, sheet music, links, pictures, and ring tones!) click on the following link:<br><br><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Aleeasar/join">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Aleeasar/join</a><br></font><div><font
size="2"> <br><br></font><font size="2"><font size="1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Aleeasar is not a guild. We are not an official SCA group of any kind, nor are we currently associated with any professional or amateur troupe. We are a loose association of drummers and dancers of widely varied skill levels who like to get together and practice. Our goal is to increase the awareness of, and participation in, Middle Eastern music and dancing in the Greater Houston area.<br><br></span></font></font><font style="font-style: italic;" size="1">"Aleeasar" is, as near as we can tell, Arabic for "the hurricane". ;-) </font><br><font size="2"><font size="1"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></font><br>Yours in Service,<br><br>Herr Dietrich Strobelbart</font><br></div><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);" size="3"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:
times new roman,new york,times,serif;"></span><font style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" size="2"> </font></font>mka: Steve Scott </font><font size="3"><br style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"></font><font style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;" size="2">832-295-3763 Home<br>281-731-7726 Cell</font><font size="3"><br></font><font size="3"><font size="1"><span style="font-style: italic;">Numerus vestri pluma!<br></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;">Number your feathers!</span></font><span style="font-style: italic;"><br></span></font></font><font size="3"><br><br></font><br><div><br></div>
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