Looking for good residential djembe tuition for 6 weeks

[AnnaCroxford]

Thanks for the advice. I went to Abene for 2 months. Was great:)

[dununbabe]

Hi Anna and welcome to the forum, I'm happy you found this site, it will give you some important information.

As we get deeper "into" the djembe, we find that we will accept many things to go and study with a true master; we tend not to care so much if he is by a beach or in a crowded capital city or what month their camp happens to be in. When you look for a djembe teacher from Africa, try to first find one who comes from the ethnic group who created it. You will get much more information from someone who was born into it.

I have not yet heard of a master teacher offering anything for as long 6 weeks but, there are a few good teachers in West Africa who have camps for 3 or 4 weeks. For example, check out Famoudou Konate at http://www.famoudoukonate.com/english/workshops.htm
you can register for his camp in Conakry, Guinea, and also he takes djembe students to his home village. Here is the link to register. http://www.famoudoukonate.com/english/registration.php#conakry

good luck!
db

[michi]

One camp I can highly recommend is Tuza's tour to Ghana. The guest house is 1km from the beach. The drum and dance classes are on the beach. I went there in 2005 and was there again in 2008 while the camp was happening. Feedback from people who have been to this camp is uniformly excellent.

Cheers,

Michi.