West African Drumming 6 Week Class w/ Fonziba

Name: West African Drumming 6 Week Class w/ Fonziba
Start: 2025-09-10T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-10T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 1210 S. Gilbert St., Suite 105, 52240

Schedule

Wed Sep 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1210 S. Gilbert St., Suite 105, 52240 | Iowa City, IA

6 Week Class in West African Drumming with Fonziba
Wednesday Nights 7 – 8:30pm
Sept 10, 17, 24, & Oct 1, 8, 15
@Full Moon Studio, 1210 S. Gilbert St. Suite 105, Iowa City
Drum Provided
Cost: $150 for 6 week class (you must sign up for the whole session)
Open to All Levels, Beginners to Advanced
Must Pre-Register with Fonziba by Sept. 7th
Via Text/Email [email protected] 641-919-4155
[Come to a 2 hour workshop the week before this class starts to try it out: https://www.facebook.com/share/1CAWuokPDW/ ]
Experience the fun and exhilaration of playing West African rhythms on authentic djembe hand drums. Unlike many musical instruments, djembe drums are easy to play.
Instead of one drummer playing complex rhythms on a drum set, Africans divide their intricate rhythms into simpler parts with different drummers playing each part. When all the parts are played together, you create an African polyrhythm, much like a drum orchestra.
Because African polyrhythms are broken down into simpler parts, they are more accessible and easy to learn. They also create a wonderful sense of connection and community because everyone has to work together to create the polyrhythm.
What’s more, the raw power of these rhythms being played by many drummers uplifts and energizes everyone.
Fonziba offers workshops and classes in West African drumming for all levels of playing ability. She shares the energetics of drumming she learned while performing for weddings in Africa and from her many African drum teachers here in the United
States.
Benefits of African Hand Drumming:
 Reduces blood pressure, stress and anxiety
 Promotes a state of well being through increased endorphins
 Improves cognitive functioning through an increase in brain white matter
 Increases the body's immune system
 Stimulates creativity and self-expression
 Improves co-ordination, focus and recall
 Fun, relaxing and energizing
Fonziba Koster has a B.A. in music education. For the last 27 years has presented her African Drumming & Culture programs to thousands in schools, libraries, museums, churches and retirement communities throughout the Midwest. Fonziba has studied & performed with master drummers from Mali, Guinea, Senegal & the Ivory Coast. She also lived & performed with a traditional family of drummers in the Ivory Coast.
For more info – Fonzibadrums.com
Fonziba's bio: https://www.fonzibadrums.com/about-fonziba.html