Slyboots founder, Griffin Brady, is coming to OBX for a 4-day drum residency in December 2022!

His stay will be packed with workshop and performance opportunities for patrons of all ages and abilities.

Drums will be provided for all events and will also be available for purchase along with some other imported instruments and goods from Ghana, West Africa.

December 2, 2022 At the Tree Lighting @ Magnolia Pavilion

3pm- Kids Drum Class 4pm- Adult Drum Class 5pm- Interactive Drum Circle and Performance

$15-25 suggested donation

December 3 & 4, 2022 @Ascension Studio OBX 1209 south croatan highway, Kill Devil Hills, NC, United States, North Carolina

5pm- Introduction to hand drumming 6pm- Intermediate African Drumming 7pm- Meet and Greet Dinner 7:30pm- 8:30 Drum Circle and Performance

All inclusive Single day- $35 All inclusive Both days- $50

Dinner and Performance- $20 Performance Only- $10

December 5, 2002 Private and Group Lessons at Slyboots OBX Dojo. By appointment only.

Private lesson rate - $25/half hour Group lesson rate- $25/hour per patron

Call or txt Kyl at (716)548-3877 or Griffin at (315)771-1414

www.SlybootsBuffalo.com

More about Griffin:

Oswego native GRIFFIN BRADY has a Master of Arts degree from Goddard College, with a focus in Ethnomusicology and Music Pedagogy. His Master’s thesis and adjoining musical method books were inspired by his work as a touring musician and educator with groups such as the SAAKUMU Dance Troupe of Ghana, West Africa. Upon founding the Slyboots School of Music, Art & Dance in Buffalo, NY in 2006, Griffin has taught and performed at over 800 universities, colleges, high schools, elementary schools, and clubs across the United States promoting the Slyboots mission: positive social change through cultural arts education and performance—and bringing the world together, on the sly.

In addition to his touring efforts, Griffin also works as a teaching artist in WNY schools, has been a featured speaker at various panel discussions and events including the TedX Buffalo conference, and he also organizes and implements a study abroad program that has brought WNY students to Africa nearly every summer since 2010. Griffin is also widely known for the community events that he produces, including weekly drum and dance classes and the annual multi-day music, art and dance festival SLYFEST, as well as his audio production work in association with Ripe Audio and Twenty6Productions.

As well as performing and directing the resident ensembles at the Slyboots School, The Slyboots Circus, and The Slyboots Drumming Ensemble, Griffin has performed, recorded, and sat in with a wide range of artists, including Bernard Woma and the Saakumu Dance Troupe, Mohamed Diaby and Manding Foli Kan Don, Cyro Baptista, Brian Marsalis, Billy Martin and the UB Percussion Ensemble, Northern Choral Society featuring the Malawi Youth Choir, DJ Logic, Bernard Purdie, Critt’s Juke Joint, Surprise Me Mr. Davis with Marco Benevento, The Slip and Nathan Moore, Lotus, DYNOHUNTER, Soul Roach, One World Tribe, The Manhattan Project, Toubab Krewe, The Mike Dillon Band, Saranaide, PA Line, Arthur Lipner, The MK Groove Trio, Sophistafunk, Babik, 12/8 Pathband, Family Funktion & the Sitar Jams, Buffalo Afrobeat Orchestra, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Sophistafunk, Funktional Flow, The Jony James Blues Band, Brownman, Folkfaces, RiShon Odell Northington, Type Relevant, Effective Resolution, Larry LZ Dillon, Andrew Moore, Mike Sisto, Tiger Chung Lee, Cinnamon Aluminum, Caveman, Ramforinkus, The Joseph Glarner Jazz Band, Dennis Cicak, Subsoil, House on a Spring, Dali’s Ghost, Slip Madigan, Universe Shark, Adam Bronstein’s Freehand Band, The Buddhahood, Doug Yeoman’s Clapton Band, Randle and the Late Night Scandals, Little Mountain Band, Working Man’s Dead, Dead Alliance Buffalo, Black and Blues Band, Lake View Effect, New Clear Fusion, Preach Freedom’s One Love Marley Project, Brian DeAngelo Ensemble, Michael King Project, John McConnell, The Garafolo Brothers, FJE, Big Sauce Trio, Made in America, Blue Saturn, Donny Frauenhofer Ensemble, The Funk Knights, Space Junk, Sonder, Buffalo Gamelan Club, Bryan Williams, Witty Tarbox, Freighttrain, Rusted Root/Uprooted, Hot Club of Buffalo, Magic Beans, Ragbirds, Haley Jane and the Primates, and more.

Griffin Brady has been named the Executive Director of the newly created Bernard Woma Dagara Music Center USA 501(c)3. His work has been featured in Percussive Arts Society publication Percussive Notes as recently as October 2020, and was featured alongside SAAKUMU Dance Troupe at PASIC in November of 2020. In November 2022, Griffin contributed remarks at PASIC with the Woma family as Bernard Woma was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame alongside Peter Erskine and others.