Category: Drum Circle Blog

It’s a place that’s been written about, put in history books.  Beautiful Golden Gate Park in San Francisco was an epicenter for what has been called “the Love Generation.”  In the late Sixties and early Seventies, young people assembled there in the tens of thousands.  They wore bright colors with feathers and beads, and long…

Walking into Golden Gate Park I could already hear the drums.  The rhythmic sound echoed all across the meadow where so much had happened in the Sixties and was still happening.  Spectators watched as a motley group of over a dozen drummers, some of them strangers who’d never made music together before, performed in perfect…

When I went to Golden Gate Park again, I got to know the drummers better.  Some of them had carved out a few precious hours from work and rent and debt to come and be in this circle.  Some had traveled far, planning for months to come to this historic place, to be a part…