Anyone know of any local percussion ensemble performances?

In college I used to go to 'percussion ensembles' which was basically the percussion part of the band doing their own performance. I always loved these and have yet to find a local performance of any percussion, let alone one on a regular basis. If you know of such a thing, please post it here. I imagine colleges would be the best resouce for this type of thing. I do know I often see a tribal dance circle/rhythm ensemble on metromix, but I am not sure if it is the same thing. What I am looking for is a performance of just various types of drums and other percussion instruments on a stage in an auditorium.

Thanks so much!

Christine

there's rhythm night club : http://www.drumallnight.com/
which has a lot of drum performances.

There's also a lot of african drumming troups locally which teach classes and occasionally have performances, they also sometimes bring over musicians to perform, for example last year we saw a djembe performance in a church in Hyde Park by a couple djembe folks who had worked with les ballets africaines.

I know the drumming classes at Old Town put on performances as part of their student recitals, they also feature professional performances sometimes as part of their afrofolk worldwide series (which are also free) there was one this past weekend at the South Shore cultural center - the link for the afrofolk series is http://www.oldtownschool.org/afrofolk/

Another good source for these performances is the afropop - http://www.afropop.org/ site, which has a link for upcoming performances in chicago, you can also sign up for an email newsletter and get them in your inbox

Maybe this is the sort of thing you're looking for.

OOMPAH-PAH!

7 percussionists, 3 trombones, 1 melodica with a speaker in a hat . . . and a whole lot of Redmoon flair.

featuring MUCCA PAZZA, The Redmoon Large Band

Music direction by Mark Messing

Stage direction by Sean Graney

at Redmoon Central, 1463 W. Hubbard Street, Chicago (map and directions)

Fridays in May at 10:00 PM

(May 6, 13, 20 and 27)

it's the second item in the Redmoon Calandar:

http://www.redmoon.org/spectacle/calendar.cfm