Groups: Small Village
The Small Village Ensemble is a project of three Northern California drummers who collectively have over 70 years of experience with rhythms songs and dances of the Caribbean, Africa and Brazil. Arthur Hull, Kim Atkinson, and Michael Pluznick have performed with Rock, Jazz, Fusion, Ethnic, and Experimental music groups as well as serving as lead drummers for many dance classes, companies and projects. They have released three albums, "Drum Culture" "Drummers Journey" and "Dancers Journey." On "Drum Culture" they blend their talents to interpret fourteen rhythm from the African Diaspora and to create five original compositions. On "Drummers Journey" they continue to blend original and traditional rhythms with modern instruments. Their latest release, "Dancers Journey" is an album of original percussion compositions with a variety of instruments.

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