Aly Camara

Aly Camara was born in Guinea, West Africa. Guinea is known for their energetic, polyrhythmic traditional drum and dance, and has maintained
much of their indigenous cultural traditions.

Aly plays a number of percussion instruments. He is most outstanding on the djembe, dununs krin (a wooden log drum), the gongoma, and several other little known percussion instruments that are indigenous to Guinea. Aly has a beautiful voice and sings traditional rhythms from a variety of West African ethnic groups.

Chuck Cogliandro

Chuck has been a project engineer for General Motors, a chauffeur to the stars, a wanderer and reader, and an in-house analyst for a mystery
shopping company.  He is currently a musician, a healer, a son, a brother to two sisters, a husband to Kelly, a friend to many, and a lover of life.

He has traveled to Guinea with his friend and teacher Mohamed DaCosta, and has studied West African music with many great artists and teachers, including Brother Yusef Crowder, Stone Montgomery, Mohamed Diaby, Aly Camara and Robin Bountourabi Leftwich.  He has been trained in various ways of healing by Barbara Brennan, Peter and Jamy Faust, and Kimberly Cahill.  Chuck loves to be a part of groups that are attuned in rhythm and movement in order to remember that the source for all of us is with the Divine.

Robin “Bountourabi” Leftwich

The totally remarkable Robin“Bountourabi”of Happy Beat  Drumming in North Carolina is an experience not to be missed!

Caution: Side effects may include a feeling of euphoria, an enhanced sense of rhythm,
improved health, a new vision of the world, heightened self esteem, fits of laughter, a new rash of friends, an itch to come back and extreme
HAPPINESS. If the symptoms last for more than four hours, seek the assistance of friends to laugh it off and then repeat the dosage… Use
more often than needed and share liberally with your friends.