Category: Teaching / Courses / Workshop

Percussion-Workshop in Leipzig am 3.4.5. Oktober 2025 zu Traditionellen Rhythmen der Malinke und Suso in Guinea (Vorankündigung und Einladung mit Bitte um rechtzeitige Buchung der Teilnahme) — YouTube Channel news — Chemnitz Africa Festival 2025…


September → Oktober 2025

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Öffentliche Ankündigung und Einladung

PERCUSSION-WORKSHOP IN LEIPZIG
TRADITIONELLE RHYTHMEN
DER MALINKE UND SUSO AUS GUINEA
MIT MEISTERTROMMLER ALPHA OULARE
MUSIKLEHRER UND ENSEMBLELEITER
AUS GUINEA CONAKRY UND LEIPZIG
AM 3.4.5. OKTOBER 2025

(Hinweis, dass ex­terne Werbe­an­zei­gen, wo­mög­lich hier obig oder unten nach­fol­gend ein­ge­blen­det sicht­bar, lei­der auf­er­legt von Word­press.com und von uns nicht aus­ge­wählt/be­stimmt wor­den sind — wir bit­ten um Ih­re / Eu­re Nach­sicht!)

Datum:
Blockseminar / Wochenend-Workshop
Freitag, 3. Oktober 2025, 15–18 Uhr
Samstag, 4. Oktober 2025, 15–18 Uhr
Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2025, 15–18 Uhr

(Mindest-Teilnehmerinnen-/-Teilnehmer-Zahl: sieben (7),
maximal zehn (10) Plätze.)

Ort: Hupfeld-Center
Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16,
D-04178 Leipzig (Erreichbar mit S-Bahn S1, Tram 7
bis S-Bahnhof Leipzig-Leutzsch, Bus; kostenlose PKW- und Radparkplätze im Hof des Areals)
Aufgang C (drittes Obergeschoss, leider noch immer keine Fahrstühle/Barrierefreiheit!)

Kursgebühr: für gesamt drei Tage freundliche 120 €
(ermäßigt° nur 100 €)

Bitte reservieren Sie rechtzeitig!
Die Teilnehmerinnen-/Teilnehmer-Zahl
ist auf zehn (10) Personen begrenzt,
mindestens sieben (7) Teilnehmerinnen/Teilnehmer
sind nötig, dass der Kurs stattfinden wird.

 
ANKÜNDIGUNG der seltenen Ge­legen­heit eines Per­cussion-Work­shops zur tra­di­tio­nellen west­afrika­ni­schen Mu­sik Gui­neas als drei­tägi­ges Block­semi­nar am Wo­chen­en­de des 3., 4. und 5. Okto­ber 2025 im Leipzi­ger Hup­feld-Cen­ter ver­anstal­tet vom Meis­ter­tromm­ler (dem ehe­mali­gen Mit­glied des Gui­ne­ischen Na­tio­nal­ballets, der En­sembles Kon­koure Bam­ba, Sugé und ande­rer Grup­pen) und Musik­lehrer (das heißt auch Be­grün­der meh­re­rer Per­cussions­schu­len in Eu­ropa) Herrn Al­pha Ou­la­re (aus Cona­kry und Leip­zig). Bitte mer­ken Sie vor: Per­cussion-Work­shop Block­semi­nar zu den tradi­tio­nel­len Rhyth­men der Malin­ke und Su­so für die Djembé-Trom­mel Spie­lende in Beglei­tung von Dunun­ba und Sang­ba, gleicher­maßen für alle Inter­essier­ten: An­fänge­rin­nen, An­fän­ger, Fort­geschrit­tene, pro­fessio­nelle Musi­ke­rin­nen und Mu­si­ker al­ler Musik­rich­tun­gen an­ge­legt, be­kömm­lich und er­fah­rens­wert an den Nach­mit­ta­gen des ers­ten Okto­ber-Wo­chen­en­des im freund­lichen Pro­be- und Unter­richts­raum des Musik­leh­rers im Leip­zi­ger Hup­feld-Center (Lud­wig-Hup­feld-Stra­ße 16, in der Nä­he vom S-Bahn­hof Leip­zig Leutzsch, Stra­ßen­bahn­linie 7 und Bus­an­bin­dun­gen, mit Park­mög­lich­kei­ten auf dem Ge­län­de). Der Unter­richt wird je­weils um 15 Uhr be­gin­nen und an al­len Ta­gen min­des­tens drei Stun­den dau­ern mit kur­zen Pau­sen und klei­nem Im­biß. Es ent­fällt kei­ne ge­son­der­te Miet­ge­bühr für die Nut­zung der Trom­meln aus Gui­nea / West­afri­ka, son­dern nur eine Gesamt­kurs­ge­bühr von 120 (ein­hun­dert­zwan­zig) Eu­ro (€) für alle drei Ta­ge. Die­ses eben­so sit­ten­kon­for­me wie rechts­gül­ti­ge An­gebot ist sel­ten in die­ser Art und in sei­nem Preis güns­tig, ei­ne freund­liche Ges­te an alle Inter­essier­ten: ° Eine zu­sätz­li­che Er­mäßi­gung der Kurs­ge­bühr auf einhundert (100) Euro (€) wird Aus­zu­bil­den­den, Stu­den­tin­nen und Stu­den­ten, Ju­gend­li­chen bis 18 Jah­ren und Se­nio­rin­nen, Se­nio­ren ge­währt wer­den. Bit­te mel­den Sie sich / bitte mel­det Euch recht­zei­tig an, da die Teil­neh­me­rin­nen-/Teil­neh­mer­zahl be­grenzt ist. Wei­ter­füh­rende Fra­gen be­ant­wor­tet Herr Alpha Ou­lare freundlich und kompetent fern­münd­lich und schrift­lich. Bitte zögert nicht, Euch zu melden!



[Click above for announcement and entry at www.Musik-Anzeigen.com.
General information about Alpha Oulare’s musical lessons can be found here (.pdf, German language)]


Veranstalter

Musiklehrer & Musiker Herr Alpha Oulare
Institut Sunjata de famille Djembéfola Monsieur Alpha Oulare

Leipzig, Kontakt: Telefon und WhatsApp unter 0178 56 34 016
oder (ein Click!) Call Alpha (tagsüber 15–19/20 Uhr),
E-Mail über aoulare.art@gmail.com,
social-media Facebook-Messenger
fb.com/alfa-oulare
oder über unser(e bei­den) Kontaktformular(e) unten:

(Weitere Informationen auch dort:
Google Inc. YouTube-Kanal youtube.com/@alphaoulare
Google Inc. Internetsuche — A.O.)


Reservierung / Buchung der Teilnahme
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Reservierung / Buchung der Teilnahme
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Alternativ auch dieses von uns erstellte Google-Inc.-Formular zur Anmeldung — Vielen Dank!

Bilder aus dem Probe- und Unterrichtsraum


Weitere Hinweise:

Postscriptum. Zum Musik­unter­richt bei Mu­sik­leh­rer und Pro­fi­mu­si­ker Al­pha Ou­la­re all­ge­mein könnt Ihr / kön­nen Sie nach­le­sen un­ter tiny­url.com/ao­inf­125 — als Hör­pro­be ei­nes gan­zen Mu­sik­al­bums von Al­phas En­semble Su­gé schaut auf ar­chive.org/de­tails/01-su­ge (Dank an das inter­natio­na­le Inter­net Ar­chive!) oder [ao].band­camp.com.
… In Vor­be­rei­tung ste­hen Demo-Auf­nah­men von neu­en Stü­cken, auch ei­ner re­vi­dier­ten zeit­an­ge­pass­ten Fas­sung des Ala­kha­won­ma­ly-Al­bums selbst, hat Djembé­fola Al­pha Ou­la­re doch be­reits Ma­te­ri­al für min­des­tens vier Al­ben im Geis­te vor­be­rei­tet, mu­si­ka­lisch ent­wi­ckelt. Nächs­ter öf­fent­li­cher Auf­tritt von Sugé könn­te üb­ri­gens das Chem­nit­zer Ku­ka­ye-Mo­to-Culture-Club-Af­ri­ka­fes­ti­val am 16. No­vem­ber 2025 wer­den, dann Al­pha Ou­la­re & Sugé als Head­liner. Vie­len Dank für Euer Inter­esse und Eu­re wohl­mei­nen­de An­teil­nahme!  A.O.
pps. Ab­schlie­ßend die dring­li­che Bit­te mit Ver­weis auf Al­pha Ou­la­res Haus­recht, dass Stö­re­rin­nen und Stö­rer, (Vi­deo-)Stal­ker­/~in­nen und an­de­re Nach­stel­ler­/~in­nen, stets auch Ha­cker­/~in­nen, Hass­ver­bre­cher/~in­nen, bit­te fern blei­ben mö­gen. Das Block­semi­nar ist als fried­li­ches und sit­ten­kon­for­mes Mu­sik­er­eig­nis kon­zi­piert. Dank an Freund Till Bommer in Ber­lin für das Por­trait­foto. Die Per­sön­lich­keits­rech­te al­ler Be­tei­lig­ten sol­len in der nicht-öf­fent­li­chen Ver­an­stal­tung nach un­se­ren Prin­zi­pi­en und Kräf­ten ge­wahrt blei­ben, zum Bei­spiel ein­ge­denk des Rech­tes am Ei­ge­nen Bild… Vie­len Dank für Eu­er Ver­ständ­nis und Eu­re Hil­fe: Be­dro­her/Be­dro­he­rin­nen, Stal­ker und ih­re Gangs (!) wer­den ört­­li­chen und inter­natio­na­len Po­li­zei- und an­de­ren er­mit­teln­den Diens­ten und Or­ga­ni­sa­tio­nen stra­fan­an­ge­zeigt, War­nung! (Wie fan­den (S)ie zu uns? Hof­fent­lich nicht als illega­le Aus­spä­her unse­rer gesetz­lich ge­schütz­ten Tele-Kom­muni­ka­tion, also als Mit­glie­der des straf­ver­folg­ten Orga­ni­sier­ten ver­fas­sungs­feind­li­chen Ver­bre­chens!) Die­ses un­ser Ange­bot ist al­lein fried­li­cher sitten­kon­former ernst­hafter Musik­unterricht — Wir ha­ben das Haus­recht in­ne! — a.o.


Zu Djembéfola Alpha Oulare


Mehr / more:


Alpha Oulare & Sugé: Alakhawonmaly!!
DIEU sera avec nous!! GOD will help us!! (review & echo mix)
(Berlin: Gamton 2000; Bandcamp 2022 — original version)

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MEANWHILE, you also might con­sult Al­pha’s of­ficial You­Tube channel to find more mu­si­cal and in­form­ative clips re­lated to his mu­sic, or play­lists of other great mu­sicians from Guinea and West Af­ri­ca, alike further in­spi­ration…

Oben: (Die Djembé mag Dich leiden lassen, sie eröffnet Dir aber auch ein weiteres, tieferes und neues Verständnis der uns umgebenden Natur.)

(Weltmusik — Folklore — Trommelstudien — Tanzmusik — Afrikanische Musik — Trommelmusik — Ernste Musik)

(barrierefrei: Sprachausgabe)

(Finally a mere experimental video advertizement, created by Google Inc. Notebook LM)

(mere in deutscher Umgangs­spra­che,
but intendedly zur Be­för­de­rung der Bar­rie­re­frei­heit)

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ALSO


bitte nicht verpassen:
3.4.5. Oktober 2025 in Leipzig!

Rechtzeitige Anmeldung
ist von Vorteil!



Vielen herzlichen Dank!


Beitrag zuletzt bearbeitet am 1.10.2025. — Kontakt.
Kurzadresse: tinyurl.com/djembe1025


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Nazis, racists, anti-Africans,
intended neo-colonial usurpators, censors and expropriators stay far!
They are not wanted, but rejected; they will never participate.

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West- and East-African Percussion Workshop with Djembéfola Alpha Oulare (Leipzig / Guinea) and Arba Manillah (Chemnitz / Tanzania) opening the 3rd Chemnitz Africa Festival on November, 15th, 2024

This sounds promising :
»Who would like to be part of the Africa Festival with warm drum vibes on November 16, 2024? Then come to the drum workshop on November 15, 2024. Here you will learn a drum performance that will be presented at the festival the next day. With musicians and music teachers for traditional West and East African percussion music and dance, you will learn from the professionals. Register at kmccev@gmail.com. — Kraftverkehr Chemnitz, November 15, 2024, 5 p.m.«

»For all music enthusiasts, near and far: West/East African percussion workshop with the master drummer and music teacher Djembéfola Alpha Oulare (Institut Sunjata de famille Oulare Leipzig / Guinea Conakry) and with Arba Manillah (Kuykaye Moto Culture Center, Chemnitz / Tanzania) -> Let the drum speak! Traditional rhythms of the Malinke, Suso and Fula and East Africa! … November 15, 2024 5:00 p.m. at Kraftverkehr Chemnitz, Fraunhoferstraße 60. It’s worth taking part!«

Host of this event will be the Kukaye Moto Culture Center Chemnitz (K.M.C.C.), venue the Kraftverkehr Chemnitz, Fraunhoferstraße 60. All intended participants of this workshop should register according to the contact data from the Kukaye Moto website, by electronic mail or phonecall/messenger to Chemnitz.

Above: Arba Manillah on the cultural scene in Chemnitz, Capital of Culture 2025 (clip from 2022)…

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Einladung für den 24./25./26. März 2023 nach / in Leipzig, Ludwig-Hupfeld-Center?

K L I C K · O B E N  >>  S O C I A L · M E D I A · F A C E B O O K  :
B I T T E · B E S T Ä T I G T · E U R E · M Ö G L I C H E · T E I L N A H M E A B S I C H T
U N D · H A B T · V I E L E N · D A N K · F Ü R · E U R E · U N T E R S T Ü T Z U N G  !

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Postscriptum

Wird diese Nachricht allen Freundinnen und Freunden, die ein Interesse an Alpha Oulares Workshop bisher formal signalisiert haben, und darüber hinaus allen anderen Interessierten automatisch zugestellt? — Bitte sagt es ihnen allen weiter und erinnert:

WIR BITTEN alle Interessentinnen und Interessenten an Alpha Oulares Workshop, der nun (so letztlicher Stand am heutigen Tage) am Wochenende Freitag bis Sonntag 24., 25. und 26. März 2023, jeweils von 15 Uhr bis ungefähr 19:30 Uhr, im Leipziger Hupfeld-Center stattfinden soll unter den angegebenen Bedingungen, … sich falls möglich bitte fest für die Teilnahme zu registrieren oder Alpha bitte direkt zu kontaktieren (etwa auch über Personliche Nachricht im Facebook-Messenger).

Habt vielen Dank im voraus.  Wir müssen leider vorab wissen, ob die minimal nötige Teilnehmerinnen-/Teilnehmer-Zahl von 12 (zwölf) Personen auch zustande kommen kann.  Im Falle eines übergroßen Zuspruchs wird die Veranstaltung auf zwei (!) Workshops in Folge geteilt werden.

Wir freuen uns auf Euch!

Leipzig, 9. März 2023


 
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DJEMBÉFOLA ? — You might find current inspiration on this at Google Inc. YouTube meanwhile ! 

 
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(Please forgive and try to ignore the following forced advertizement
which has not been intended by Djembéfola Alpha Oulare
— instead: look for some News on Guinea Conakry!)

 
 

Short media reference to Les Ballets Africains (and Les Percussions de Guinée) // Alpha Oulare’s current Course offers October 2022 to January 2023

Again as Educational content here some media references that are connected with Alpha Oulare’s personal and collective biographies:

Les Ballets Africains at Google Inc. YouTube

(Google Inc. YouTube videos on Les Ballets Africans — leave this webpage to watch externally partial videos that cannot be embedded here! Many thanks to all contributors,)

Les Ballets Africains &  Les Percussions de Guinée

Video search on both terms at Google Inc. YouTube cf. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22Les%20Percussions%20de%20Guinee%22+OR+%22Les%20Ballets%20Africains%22

Information from Wikipedia articles:

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Percussions_de_Guin%C3%A9e

cf. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Percussions_de_Guin%C3%A9e

cf. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Ballets_africains — merci! Many thanks to Mister Thierry Duprat for his recent inspiration on this via his social-media profile)…

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(LES BALLETS AFRICAINS DE KEITA FODEBA, Vol. 2 avec KENTE FACELLI · DIABATE DAOUDA · DIELI MAGAN · FANTA DIALI · FANTA KAMISSAKO · KANTE MANFILA · HAWA · DARIUS ALFREDINE · DIELIBAKARI SISSOKO et l’accompagnement vocal des BALLETS AFRICAINS. Disques Vogue 1960)


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Current course announcements, invitations and offers, October 2022 to January 2023


Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde, auch an Euch diese öffentliche dringende Anzeige / Bitte zeigt sie weiter:

RELEVANT wöchentlich sowie (Kartenvorverkauf jetzt, Teilnahme begrenzt!) schon im Januar oder (eine freie oder Ferien-Reise zu planen!) Frühjahr/Herbst 2023; ansonsten regelmäßige Konzerte & live-Events (auch Ensembles buchbar, siehe Kontaktdaten unten), seriöse Angebote 2022/2023 :: :: DJEMBÉ WESTAFRIKANISCHE TRADITIONELLE PERCUSSION, MUSIK DER MALINKÈ, SUSO UND FULA / NEUE EINFLÜSSE IM SPIEL UND FÜR KOMPOSITION UND AUFFÜHRUNG / INSPIRATION UND FORTBILDUNG — UNTERRICHT BEI MEISTERTROMMLER ALPHA OULARE (GUINEA CONAKRY / LEIPZIG) IN LEIPZIG 2022, 2023 UND DARÜBER HINAUS! BITTE LEST: …auch in deutscher Sprache und an Leipziger und überregionale Leserinnen und Leser nun alles bisher über Alpha Oulares Unterricht, seine Kurse, Workshops und musikalische Händlerangebote auf seiner Website Mitgeteilte: Falls möglich empfehlt auch als Information weiter! Die Percussion/Djembé-Kurse sind genreübergreifend interessant und wertvoll für andere Instrumentalistinnen und Instrumentalisten, Komponistinnen und Komponisten, Arrangeurinnen und Arrangeuren, musikalische Laien, Künstlerinnen und Künstlern an sich… * INHALT: 1) Euer dreitägiger Wochenendkurs = Seminar Djembé und Percussion incl. westafrikanischer Imbiß im Januar 2023 in Leipzig: preiswert (3 x 3½h+Pause+Imbiss) für 80€ (Kartenvorverkauf, Geschenkidee!) · 2) Kalender der laufenden Kurse in Leipzig · 3a) Djembé- und Percussion-Unterricht für Erwachsene und Jugendliche in Leipzig (wöchentlich samstags) · 3b) Professioneller und freundlicher Trommel-/Musik-Unterricht für Kinder in Leipzig (wöchentlich einstündig sonntags) · 4) Kurzer Dank und Hinweise (neuen Schülern im September 2022) · 5) Drei kurze Gedanken zu Djembé/Musik · 6) Hochwertige afrikanische Musikinstrumente aus Guinea zum Verkauf – in dieser Qualität und Fertigung hier nur über Alpha Oulare · 7) Einladung zur musikalischen Reise nach Guinea im Frühjahr oder Herbst 2023: Conakry, Isle of Roume, Workshops und mehr wie in früheren Jahren [ siehe https://alphaoulare.art.blog/kurse ]. * Diese Einladungen und Ankündigungen ergehen an Euch als sehr dringend! Neuer Kontakt wird angeboten… Vielen Dank für Eure Hilfe, Vermittlung, Euer wohlmeinendes Interesse und Eure langjährige tiefe Freundschaft und Sympathie!

( Kontakt zum Künstler und Lehrer: hier Facebook/-Messenger fb.com/alfa.oulare / Telefon und WhatsApp-Messenger tagsüber, vorzugsweise Nachmittag bis früher Abend tel:01785634016 (w-afr., dt., en., esp., frz., it., pt., u. a. Sprachen mehr) / E-Mail mailto:aoulare.art@gmail.com — alle Kontaktdaten und weitere Auskünfte, auch Klänge und Bilder, Anregungen und Hintergründe auf seiner Website https://alphaoulare.art.blog. )

‹ Quand je dors, le Djembé est dans mes rêves, le Djembé est alors dans mon sang, je continuerai à jouer jusqu’à la fin de ma vie. › (A. Ou.)

social-media Facebook.com/Alfa.Oulare …

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At very friendly Price / ACTION: 3-Day Djembé-Workshop at Leipzig, in January 6th/7th/8th (Fri.–Sat.–Sun.), 2023: tickets for 80€ in complete (pre-order & survey here) // sounds // (+outlook: Africa Festivals in Federal Germany, to take place in 2023)

Please fw-forward to your friends and musical colleagues!

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Vorankündigung und Einladung für den 6., 7. und 8. Januar 2023:

Westafrika-Djembé-Percussion-Workshop
mit Herrn Meistertrommler Alpha Oulare (Leipzig / Guinea Conakry) am 6., 7. und 8. Januar 2023 (3-tägiges Wochenende, Kartenvorverkauf):

Begleitet werden wird Djembéfola Alpha Oulare durch Djembéfola Mister Shaun Gracie (Doundoun-Basstrommeln und anderes mehr).

Inhalt des Workshops (von Freitag bis Sonntag) sind Traditionelle Rhythmen der Malinke, Susu und Fula — unser Kurs richtet sich an alle interessierten Percussionistinnen und Percussionisten (fortgeschritten / neugierig / Anfängerin oder Anfänger), genreübergreifend wird er auch für andere Instrumentalistinnen / Instrumentalisten wie Musikerinnen/Musiker an sich, Komponistinnen / Komponisten informativ, lehrreich, überaus anregend und nutzbringend (!) sein. (Am Abschlusstag sollen gemeinsam zuvor erarbeitete mehrstimmige und mehrteilige neue Kompositionen erstmals erklingen.)

Ort des Workshops ist der freundlich und helle Proberaum im Hupfeld-Center, Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16.

An jedem der Tage erwartet Euch ein westafrikanisches Büffet.

Kartenvorverkauf bis Weihnachten 2022. Der Vorverkaufspreis für den 3-tägigen* Djembé-Workshop von 80 (achtzig (!)) €/Euro für 3 (drei) mal 3 1/2 Stunden Unterricht inclusive Pause und westafrikanischem Imbiss ist günstig und angemessen an der üblichen Kursgebühr bei Herrn Musiklehrer Alpha Oulare — weitere Auskunft und Kartenvorbestellung:

Telefon (tagsüber, auch für WhatsApp): 0178 56 34 016,

social-media Facebook (Nachricht/Anruf): fb.com/alpha.oulare

und (diese) Website alphaoulare.art.blog.


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As advertizement for the referenced artists and as orientation for all interested persons we allow ourselves to embed here the musical album Rhythms of the Malinke by Famoudou Konaté (1990):

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Finally Rail Band (Mory Kante & Salif Keita): Soundiata (197X)

 
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Postscriptum: Find hopefully a(nother) helpful list of federal-german Africa Festivals for 2023 w/ contact addresses for the application of musical artists, ensembles and bands HERE — this list should be maintained and updated in future among the other 1000 Drums Africa Festival web-blog pages and posts…

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pps Read the Merriam-Webster online-dictionary (an Encyclopedia Britannica company) on the term “Workshop” here

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Very final Postscriptum:
The correctly-spelled Institute name for Mister Alpha Oulare’s Musical school is to be and shall be, remain as: (Le) SUNJATA INSTITUTE (FAMILLE) DJEMBÉFOLA OULARE. Please keep in mind!





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Current Course Dates (Djembé and Afro-Dance) and Announcements // Contact form to make an appointment for Course Attendance or other Meeting // Contact by Phone

Still under construction. Here an orientation on weekly courses and on concert, festival and other dates (entries that might become added, changed or deleted):

Read also the announcements for the January-2023 three-day-workshop (80€ fee for all three days incl. each West African snack/food), children’s percussion courses (10€ fee per one-hour-lesson), weekly percussion courses (20€ fee° per two-hour-lesson) in general (with information on the location), offers of musical instruments (appointments can be made to visit and test-play these instruments from Guinea individually at place, so for help missions in tuning and repairing instruments — ask on the costs), finally the announcement for the 2023 Study Travel to Guinea Conakry / Isle of Roume — many thanks also if/for forwarding information about these offers to your friends and musical colleagues!

(° Note: a first introductory lesson shall be free for first-time students.)

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Send a Message to Mister Alpha Oulare in these issues? Ask your questions or make an appointment by e-mail:

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You may also phone-call Mister Oulare by phone at regular daytime or contact him by help of the Facebook and WhatsApp messengers.


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Children’s drumming lessons: Djembé weekly on Sunday afternoon (Trommelunterricht für Kinder in Leipzig) — Educational and salutary ressources for Kids / Activities

Übersetzen ins Deutsche?  These friendly and useful children’s lessons are held successfully yet for many years, beside the main elder drumming courses and African dance workshops:

Event organized by Alpha Oulare
Sundays 3–4 p.m.
Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16, 04178 Leipzig, Germany
Running time: 1 hour
Public
Every Sunday afternoon drumming lessons for children led by master drummer Alpha Oulare.
Registration & further information: Telephone Alpha Oulares 0178-5634016 (also WhatsApp)

At the age of five he learned to play the drums in the national ballet in Guinea, and later he became one of the best percussionists in his country. Since 1998 he has enriched the Afro music scene in Germany. He worked as a musician and teacher in Berlin, Stuttgart and since 2016 also in Leipzig. Alpha Oulare is married husband and has several own children.

(Hear sounds from the album »Alakhawonmaly!! DIEU sera avec nous!! GOD will help us« by Alpha Oulare & Sugé — to be found here)

Form of teaching:

  • in the group
  • instruments of different sizes can be provided for the lesson depending on the age of the child, or you can bring your own drum
  • together with the children, the first rhythms are worked out step by step and practiced in the group
  • the children are treated with great sensitivity and the individual learning process is accompanied
  • different levels and previous experiences are included and promoted in the lessons
  • one-to-one lessons are of course also possible by prior arrangement, or sharing the group depending on the number of participants
  • other course dates and times on request
  • the lessons take place taking into account the current health situation

Venue: Hupfeldcenter, Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16, 04178 Leipzig: Meeting point in the courtyard, staircase C — we go to the room together.

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Pour les enfants — hear also some West-African children’s songs, animation for young persons: Comptines d’Afrique

[These are Nursery Rhymes from Africa: »Welcome to the number-one YouTube channel of animated African nursery rhymes — Chain that connects and transmits — Welcoming channel where we play, cook, dance, sing, clap our hands and invent the future — Channel that puts its values into practice, benevolence, empathy, education — Welcome to COMPTINES D’AFRIQUE, African children’s songs channel — Best way for our children to become world citizens« (ibid.)]
(Click on the above images (screenshot) to find more videos of different length and theme. — Listeners and viewers of any age and early readers might learn the French language and African languages by this too. The music appears to be very tasteful. But be careful about television and new media in general, regarding the child’s mental health and natural learning, abilities!)

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(Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages, F 2005)
You should consider if to purchase this film trilogy
as digital copies from vendors for your children.

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Die Rechte des Kindes :
(UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child, version for children translated into german language)

Might the future of our children be peaceful and safe, this our pious wish and mission!


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Finally, for the parents another more general advertizement by Mister Oulare, as friendly reminder:


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Percussion Courses with Alpha Oulare

HINWEISE IN DEUTSCHER SPRACHE HIER

How to Join our Weekly Percussion courses in our Rehearsal Room at LEIPZIG (two-hour workshop on Saturday afternoon)

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Remind the necessarity students of Mister Oulare regularly to attend the workshop and submit their weekly, monthly or quarterly fee: it will help to settle the rent and cost for the friendly rehearsal and workshop rooms that are, beside for rehearsals of the Musicians’ projects, not rented or used else!

You can freely register for an introductory free first course, join the weekly series of workshops that contain demonstration, explanation, common play and exchange, excersizes/etudes in refinement of the interpretation, play and usage of several West-African rhythms, techniques, skills, moods and tempers… — Please inform me, Alpha, in advance if you will miss a workshop as friend and student fellow, stay in contact!

We will meet weekly every Saturday afternoon from 2pm to 4pm Percussion Workshop = one unit for 20 € (Euros). You can Mr. Alpha Oulare either by phone, WhatsApp or contact by social-media Facebook, dials and addresses for found here). Please tell Mister Oulare if you want to join for a first cost-free introductory session, join in general, miss one event, pause, abandon in general, or, if you wish more information or, to debate questions.

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Workshop location and address

REHEARSAL AND COURSE ROOM

Hupfeld Center

Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16 C

Leipzig, Saxony D-04157

Germany

aoulare.art@gmail.com (incoming mail not instantly read)

0049 178 56 34 016 (connects to cellphone)

Whatsapp (to submit a message by protocol)

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The Rehearsal and Workshop Room are located within the Ludwig Hupfeld Center at Leipzig, district Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, and can be reached so by fast S-Train or Tram (7) respective Bus connections. The room in atmosphere is bright, interesting friendly and clean. By S-Train the ride to this place shall take only few minutes:

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Welcome and thanks to new Percussion Students — first Announcement of Weekend Workshop in Autumn 2022 — new Pricing for the Bandcamp Sugé .mp3 re-release — two Videos from the Berlin Cultural Carneval 2007/2013 — weekly Sunday Courses for West-African Dance (Afrodance at the Leipzig Hupfeldcenter 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.)

THIS IN SHORT: We thank all new musical students and friends that joined Alpha Oulare’s Djembé lessons on this Saturday, August, the 20st, 2022, for the first time: what mighty sound yet, when playing together in group. Now about three female and four male drum students might hopefully attend the weekly two-hour lesson regularly — — yet having been announced, but not as yet concrete in time: this Autumn’s two-day weekend workshop later in the year… Students and all interested musicians shall receive the opportunity to learn and perform special own compositions by Alpha Oulare then. Might the event become sound-recorded?

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CLICK BELOW TO CONNECT TO THE BANDCAMP PORTAL OF ALPHA OULARE. You will find the before entrance prices for the year 2000 Sugé Album now reduced to common standard. The opening track SUGÉ offered here for only 80 euro-cents. / Page description and colours have changed…

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Two Google Inc. YouTube videos from the Berlin Carneval of Cultures / Karneval der Kulturen 1996ff. (2007 and 2013)

(2007 Berlin Carneval of Cultures with drum players from Guinea)
(Six years later, in 2013, again drummers from Guinea)

Alpha Oulare himself … participated at the cultural festival in before years as member of  La Fôret Sacrée, Konkobá, Sugé [links from Alpha’s newly updated Discographies profile] and as solo performer respective in free communion with other musicians and dancers, guests of the Carneval.

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KONKOBA. By occasion another search at the SoundCloud music portal resulting in songs named Konkoba (embedding here at first Mamady Keïta, you should find also pieces by Tourmani Diabaté, Cissoko System and maybe more artists from West Africa and beyond):

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Reminder:

»Liebe Freunde der afrikanischen Musik!!! Wir starten wieder durch und hoffen, ihr habt genauso viel Lust wie wir!!! Unter Beachtung der aktuellen Coronaregelungen können wir wieder unterrichten. Folgende Kurse bieten wir für euch an:

»Djembe für Erwachsene: Samstag 16–18 Uhr

»Afrotanz : Sonntag 15–17 Uhr

»NEU!!!! Djembe für Kinder: Sonntag 14–15 Uhr (ab 4 Jahre)

»Weitere Termine und Gruppen auf Anfrage!

»Ort: Ludwig-Hupfeldstr.16 / Leipzig

»Wer kann kommen? Alle die Spaß an westafrikanischen Rhythmen haben, diese gern erlernen möchten, sich auspowern oder einfach Freude am Musizieren verspüren möchten! Es ist für jeden was dabei: schaut vorbei und probiert es aus – wir freuen uns auf euch!« (Facebook, Mai 2021)

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Thoughts

›The Djembé will make you suffer, but it can show you the way to obtain knowledge of nature… To learn the Djembé I suffered a lot, but today I thank GOD, because of the Djembé I am well known in Africa and Europe.‹

›You have to always play the Djembé to get a new spirit.‹

›When I am asleep, the Djembé is in my dreams, Djembé playing then is in my blood, I will keep on playing until the end of my life.‹

Alpha Oulare
(March 2022) — MORE WAS TO SAY OR TO WRITE DOWN …

(This is just an experimental audio montage
from computer-generated voices.)

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Offer: West-African Musical Instruments as Tools of Trade — you can contact Mister Alpha Oulare to purchase these quality items manufactured by African musicians!

Übersetzen in deutsche Sprache · ou Traduire en Français ?

MERCATORY OFFER: These are photographs from the Rehearsal and Workshop rooms of Alpha Oulare and his musical colleagues at the Hupfeld Center area in Leipzig (district Leipzig / Böhlitz-Ehrenberg, D-04157, Ludwig-Hupfeld-Straße 16, building entrance C; the building complex is guarded by security corporations), no concrete online shop… If certain instruments awake your interest, if you have been searching for the approbiate musical device for long and to find here, if you wish musical demonstrations, need help on repair and further modifications as tuning and enhancement / decoration you can contact Alpha Oulare directly to make an appointment into a concrete meeting at this place… Have a look into this living collection (technical note: images might possibly load slowly here at first if not having been cached yet):

Djembé drums from West Africa
These Djembé drums sound good!
They here stand alike eight men.
On top here Kalimba / Kalebasse drum.
Doundoun, Sangba, Tenkenin, tools…
Bolong 4-string harp, in goat fur.
Kora, N’Goni and Bolong harps, more…
All instruments are handled carfully!
Shakers / Shereke, tools…
Not for sale: Awesome Tapes from Africa.
A view through our window…
Occasional here also recordings…
(Visual impressions)

A few more images shall follow. The Balafon, so it is said by musical West-African legends, has not been invented / first-made by Man himself, it is of supernatural origin… Underneath its wooden and tuned sound bars lay resonating jugs of clay each to create this fascinating rich sounds. A short audio sample recording of Alpha playing the balafon next:

(Note: Alpha Oulare is demonstrating the African Balafon in free improvisation. He points out not to be a very skillful player himself (yet), rather still student at this particular instrument. It’s a life-long learning. You hear a plain cellphone recording with added reverbation/hall effect, sounding as if from far away…)
Alpha Oulare playing the Balafon, in picture two Kalebasses.
The Balafon owns a special bag for rest and transportation.
During his Percussion Workshops Alpha Oulare mostly plays the Djembé drum with his students, partly also Doundoun and Sangba, Tinkening. (All photographs having been taken on Saturday, June 25th, 2022, in place.)

Contact Mister Alpha Oulare to test-play and and purchase these original, traditioally manufactured West-African musical instruments, each item is unique and sounds authentically good:

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You can call Alpha Oulare also directly so in this issue. Click here to dial his number!

LAST NOT LEAST WORD ON PRICES: Prices. These are fair and not too expensive, no amoral profit shall be made, but the African manufacturers and importing trading/messaging helpers find their acknowledgement. We regard it to be a better solution to obtain and purchase these instruments from first hand other than as from musical stores and major Internet distributors, cheapest used defect items of unkown origin, or non-african forgeries and replicas, or so-called special editions of drums at over-sized pricing… You will always also find help and advise in/on maintaining the instrument healthy and in good sounding shape, loving it as musical friend and partner.

Alpha Oulare on the phone. He is always friendly, and kind to all customers and musical students.

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Invitation to Guinea Conakry / Isle of Roume : Workshop Journey in February 2023 (!) [or in later Autumn]

PREFACED: Maybe this Invitation will apply for the later months of the year 2023, which is not yet concrete at all, but the outline and journey content should be found to be similar in both cases — read on:

[Public announcement and invitation by Djembéfola Mr. Alpha Oulare]

MUSICAL JOURNEY TO GUINEA :

Winter holiday workshop in February 2023

2-week drum and dance course from February 5th to 19th, 2023[1]

Let yourself be carried away into the wonderful culture of Guinea! Together with us you will discover its breathtaking variety of colours, smells and sounds — very close to the pulse of nature and the local people.

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DRUM LESSONS. In drum lessons we practice traditional rhythms and percussion techniques on the Djembé, one of the most expressive drums in Africa. In addition, the interaction of the whole group is trained. The three masters of the drum (Djembéfola) Mr. Gillbert, the course instructor, accompanied by Mr. Alpha Oulare and Mr. Mamadie Camara, go into each level individually. The drums are provided.

DANCING LESSONS. Accompanied by the aforementioned drummers, the dance lessons take place with the two professional dance teachers Ms. Marama Konti and Ms. Kadiatou Zuma. For a long time, both were dancers with the national ballet «Kounkuré Bamba» in Conakry, where they currently live and teach several dance groups. Their wealth of experience enables them to handle different levels of dance equally.

THREE MEALS A DAY. Our cook Ms. Fatime will entertain us with her culinary art. As a snack, fruit, snacks and table water are freely available for all travelers. You have to organize muesli or special foods yourself.

OVERNIGHT STAY. 2-bed rooms with simple furnishings, beds with mosquito nets are provided. On the Île de Roume we stay in bamboo huts directly at the sea.

WHAT AWAITS YOU on our trip to Guinea:

  • Airport transfer (arrival and departure as a whole group),
  • traditional accommodation (no mass tourism),
  • 3× daily culinary delicacies of the Guinean cuisine,
  • two-week drum and dance course and
  • optional excursions, cultural events, festivals and much more

TRAVEL PRICE for the two-week stay:

  • all inclusive with dance and drumming course 950 €,
  • only with dance course 785 €,
  • only with drumming courses 785 €

(simple extension week possible by arrangement).

TIME SCHEDULE

Saturday, February 4th, 2023, arrival at Conakry/Guinea airport, transfer as a group[2] to the town of Coyah[3].

Sunday, February 5th, 2023, free day to arrive and relax.

Monday, February 6, 2023 to Friday, February 10, 2023, daily lessons in traditional dance and drumming, in Coyah.

Saturday, February 11, 2023, moving by boat to the Île de Roume, one hour before Conakry. Free time for long walks into the interior of the small island and along the sea, visit to the village with insights into the everyday life of the people, for example fishing. Spontaneous excursions around the island or a rest day in a hammock — all this and much more is possible.

From Monday 13.2.2023, daily lessons in traditional dance and drumming on the island of Roume, outside by the sea.

Saturday and Sunday, February 18/19, 2023, return journey.

Guinea Conakry region, Los Islands and the Isle of Roume (Sources Twitter.com and Mindat.org)


REMARKS

[1] Variable arrival and departure times are possible.

[2] Arrangements among the travelers as a group regarding the transfer are possible.

[3] The drive from Conakrys Airport to Coyah takes approximately 1½ hours. The journey from Coyah to Roume Island takes approximately 2 hours by car to the port and then another 1 hour by boat to the island.

Dance lessons Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 11:00 and 17:00 to 18:00, drum lessons Monday to Friday from 12:00 to 15:00.

You have to organize the flight yourself. There are various airlines that fly to Conakry: Airfrance (you can take a lot of luggage here) or, for example, Air Morocco.

A visa must be ordered at the Guinean Embassy in Berlin.

Vaccination card is mandatory (vaccination against yellow fever and/or prophylactic treatment against malaria).

For those who have the desire and the time, there is an opportunity to arrive earlier and also to stay there longer. The holiday can be extended up to 3 months, for this it is necessary to contact the organizer Mr. Alpha Oulare (additional costs about 150 € per week for room and board).

MORE INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION

Please contact Mr. Alpha Oulare, Leipzig/Conakry, by e-mail: alpha.oulare@hotmail.de, or mobile phone / Whatsapp (+49) (0)178 56 34 016, or via social media Facebook: tinyurl.com/alphaoulare, also for contracts with the percussion and vocal ensemble Sugé.

[© Mr. Alpha Oulare, Leipzig / Federal Republic of Germany, Guinea-Conakry, March 24, 2022]

HELPFUL : Further external ressources

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