Earth Pulse: A Sound Gathering

Name: Earth Pulse: A Sound Gathering
Start: 2026-03-07T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-03-07T19:30:00-05:00
Location: 3015 7th St N, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33704

Schedule

Sat Mar 07 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3015 7th St N, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States, Florida 33704 | St. Petersburg, FL

Date: Saturday, March 7
Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
Cost: $30
Join sound facilitator Jessica Mihm-Bonner and world-class percussionist Raihan Alam for a 90-minute immersive sound journey. Make yourself comfortable with a bolster and blanket and settle in for trance-inducing experience. Jessica and Raihan will weave percussion, hypnotic hand-pan rhythms, and didgeridoos into an overtone-rich soundscape, creating a powerful container for release, embodiment, and deep inner stillness.

The BE will provide a bolster and falsa blanket. Feel free to bring your own eye pillow, head pillow, or favorite stuffie :). Whatever makes you happy and comfortable.
Raihan Alam
Raihan is multidimensional. He is a percussionist, didgeridoo player, martial artist, and public school educator. Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota by Bangladeshi immigrant parents, Raihan began his musical journey at age 15 when he got his first drum set. He played in hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 90s from age 15 into his mid-20s. He moved to St. Petersburg, Florida in 2002 and began to study and play Middle Eastern percussion instruments with a passion. These include primarily doumbek or darbuka, frame drums, and riq tambourine. He also began to play Aboriginal Australian didgeridoo in 2005. Today, he travels the USA during the summers performing children’s educational didgeridoo programs with Didgeridoo Down Under. He has performed with several world music ensembles over the years. But since 2013, he has performed primarily with Kafkasso.
Raihan has had the opportunity to study with legendary master teachers of Middle Eastern percussion including Glen Velez, Naghmeh Farahmand, Raquy Danziger, River Guerguerian, and Hossam Ramzy. The fierce passion of his punk roots can still be heard in his rapid-fire improvisations on darbuka and other percussion instruments.