Drumming for Peace program at Mennonite Church USA assembly, Columbus, Ohio, July 2009

In one video is the Peace Train exercise, part of the first one hour seminar "Joyful Noise" I presented at MC USA Assembly in Columbus, Ohio on July 1 & 2, 2009. This presentation involved about 40 drummers and a crowd of more than 100. The second video (on top)is from a session for youth that drew over 200 young people to the seminar. It was moved inside the convention cafeteria because it was so loud! And I guess also because the mob of youth would have blocked the hallway.

In the photos are some impromptu drumming sessions I engaged in at the convention with preschoolers and youth. The dark photo is an unrehearsed drumming performance with volunteer youth playing before an audience of 6-8,000 youth at the Columbus arena before we gave Laura Bowman our first Different Drummer Award (see http://blog.goshen.edu/mpress/2009/07/04/bowman-awarded-for-marching-to-peace-beat/)