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Music Performances Martin Klabunde playing the Akogos, the Adungus and the djembes. Original songs, traditional instruments from Uganda.

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Djembe Drumming Martin Klabunde and Wing Man Rita Law playing djembe.

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About Martin Klabunde and Dambe

Videos of Martin Klabunde and Friends performances, Dambe Project Residencies, and Dambe Drum Ensemble Performances and Kalumba Performances.

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May 28, 2011

Date Joined

Dec 10, 2006

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Martin Klabunde is an initiated Nahual, whose mission is to provide a path of awakening through music, with over 20 years of teaching, performance, and class and workshop facilitation experience. He has made over ten trips and spent over three years in Mexico and East and West Africa, where he studied the native music with initiated masters and participated in traditional rites of passage, healing ceremonies and shamanic rituals. His passion is how music is used in developing and maintaining a spiritual path through ceremony and ritual. He is devoted to revealing a path of awakening through music and service to others.

Martin is a professional musician and a Certified Professor for Mamady Keita's Tam Tam Mandengue International School of the Djembe. He is also an advanced student of a master healer from Mexico, who has taught Martin the ancient rites of Portal Drumming and Healing Ceremonies.

He is the director of The Dambe Project, a Tucson-based non-profit organization that specializes in youth mentorship and utilizes West African performance art (www.dambe.org). Since 2003, Martin has taught music in over 75 schools in Arizona and facilitated drum circles and interactive presentations for audiences ranging from 10 to 800 people. He has experience with people of all ages and backgrounds, from elementary to college level education institutions to corporate leadership seminars to spiritual and healing retreats. He has worked with community organizations such as the Tucson-Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Southern Arizona Aids Foundation, the Boys and Girls Clubs, Many Mouths One Stomach, Young Audiences and Tucson Parks and Recreation.

In 2009, Martin founded Collective Awakening, an organization committed to providing pathways for spiritual awakening to all peoples. Using his experience in music, shamanism, community development, public speaking and his own spiritual awakening, Martin brings a wealth of artistry, knowledge and wisdom to the classes, workshops and retreats he facilitates around the country.

Martin currently lives in Tucson, Arizona and travels internationally, studying and creating music, teaching and facilitating classes and workshops, and giving performances.

Age

Hometown

Tucson, AZ

Country

United States

Occupation

Director, The Dambe Project and Collective Awakening

Companies

Collective Awakening (www.collectiveawakening.us) and The Dambe Project (www.dambe.org)

Schools

University of Arizona

Interests

Music

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