300 Drums Project

02/07/2011

We've finally gotten the 300 Drums page up on the Mesa website so you can see photos and read more of the story of this project.

300 Drums is a S.T.E.A.M. grant funded project to use the making, playing, and painting of Native American frame drums as cross curricular teaching tools for 4th grade students.

11/18/2010

We've finished making all the drums with the kids at McKee and Wilson Elementary schools. We start today at Donaldson. So far we've made/helped make 187 of the 300 Drums. We've got lots of stuff to post, but are waaay short on time right now. It's coming!

11/03/2010

Things went pretty well making drums with the first group of fourth graders at McKee Elementary. It was a little bit hectic, but all the drums turned out well. Wednesday to Friday we are going back to McKee to work with one class each day to make their drums.

10/29/2010

Today we're off to McKee Elementary to demonstrate the drum making to two of their 4th grade classes. Monday we'll do the same thing for the other two so they will be prepped to start creating their own drums on Tuesday. B&K

10/29/2010

The 4th grade teachers and elementary music teachers from Donaldson, McKee, and Wilson Elementary schools gathered together to create their personal drums as part of the 300 Drums project. Photos by Brad Silberberg.

10/29/2010

Things went really well today as we helped 11 fourth grade teachers and 3 music teachers from West Allegheny School district make their drums. Here's a short video Brad shot before he was once again called to help out.

10/28/2010

CenterWe're going in to Wilson Elementary school Thursday to make Native American drums with the 4th grade teachers from all of West Allegheny School District (Imperial PA) as part of our 300 Dums project. Next week we start making drums with the students from McKee Elementary.

10/01/2010

Here's some photos of Brad Silberberg making the drum head and lacing disk patterns for the 12" drums the West Allegheny 4th graders will be making.

10/01/2010

OK! Here's some photos of our 300 drum kits arriving at The Mesa, along with pictures of us starting to prepare the other parts of the materials and patterns for the drums.

09/27/2010

The drum kits finally arrived this past Thursday. We got the patterns made for trimming and punching the drum heads and lacing disks and made two test drums yesterday. Two down, 298 drums to go! We've got a bunch of photos to post and hope to find time to do so in the next couple of days. Love and Light to all. B&K

09/18/2010

Got an update on the drum kits. They won't arrive until Wednesday. They're on their way. Kate now has about 170 drum be**er heads sewn and Brad has prepared about 160 drum sticks.

09/15/2010

Just got word that the 300 drum kits are on their way from Centralia Hide and Fur in Washington state. They're coming on one pallet on a big truck. Should be here within a week or so.