Silver Spring Drum Circle: Starting the Groove

Recorded August 28, 2010. Since July 2010, when the Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza opened, a drum circle has gathered Saturday evenings. I wanted to see how the drum circle forms each week so I arrived at 6:30 PM to see how it comes together. Performances are complex social events. The activities leading up to the actual event can be as significant as the music or drama performed during the performance. With that in mind I tried to catch how the Silver Spring drum circle comes together as a performance. This video is compiled from clips I shot while watching the drummers and their audience gather between 7:00 and 8:20 PM in Veterans Plaza.

Typo disclaimer: There's a typo in the opening titles and I don't feel like waiting 2 hours to re-render the video.

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Entertainment

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• Silver Spring
• Drum Circle

[HistorianforHire]

@mettacrawler "No" is notoriously unreliable that's why I tend to listen to "No one"!

[mettacrawler]

Why did you come at 6:30 even when No had told you the circle was going to start at 8:00? You should have listened to No.