Mark Stone multi-percussionist, composer, educator

9am to 6pm

A feast of percussion from around the world, featuring workshops and individual lessons with Sean Dobbins, Patrick Fitzgibbon, Dan Maslanka, Michael Medvinsky, and Mark Stone. Open to all ages. Workshops cover a wide range of percussion areas (see descrioptions below). Please bring a sack lunch as well as music and mallets/sticks for your individual lesson. Sign up for these 15-minute lessons will take place on site the morning of Percussion Day.

• 9am to 10:15am –  Varner Recital HalL
• Drumming in the Classroom with Mike Medvinsky 

• 10:30am to 11:45am – Room 110 Varner
• Steel Drums with Patrick Fitzgibbon (learn to play pan)

• 12 noon to 1:15pm – Room 134 Varner
• Jazz Drum Set 101 with Sean Dobbins (develop your jazz knowledge)

• 10:30am to 1:15pm – Room 101 Varner
• individual lessons with Dan Maslanka(fine tune your solo and ensemble pieces)

• 10:30am to 1:15pm – Room 106 Varner
• Individual lessons with Mark Stone (Work on hand drumming or other world percussion)

1:15pm - Lunch Break (bring a sack lunch)

• 2:15pm to 3:30pm – Room 110 Varner
• Concert Percussion Fundamentals with Dan Maslanka 

• 3:45pm to 5pm – Room 134 Varner
• African Xylophones with Mark Stone (learn to play the embaire)

• 2:15pm to 5pm – Room 104 Varner
• Individual lessons with Sean Dobbins (Work on various drum set styles)

• 2:15pm to 5pm – Room 106 Varner
• Individual lessons with Patrick Fitzgibbon (fine tune your solo and ensemble pieces)

• 5pm to 6pm – Room 134 Varner
• Wrap up/ Reflection (Discuss the days events. Share you thoughts and ask any questions you may have)

8pm

Regina Carter will be the featured guest artist with the Oakland Jazz Quartet and OU Chamber Orchestra for a night of jazz with an orchestral hue. The Oakland Jazz Quartet is Miles Brown, Sean Dobbins, Scott Gwinnell and Mark Stone. Alan MacNair, conducts the OU Chamber Orchestra. This concert is free for registered participants of OU’s Strings Day.

1pm

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Ann Arbor Library with the Biakuye Percussion Group. Sulley Imoro, Mark Stone, and Chinelo Amen Ra will share a wide range of drumming, singing, and dancing from West Africa in this all ages performance.

7pm to 10pm

Come check out UMMA's "After Hours", a free community event featuring Art, music, and atmosphere. Explore the permanent collection galleries and enjoy special exhibitions, curators' conversations, tours, light refreshments, and live music by the Mark Stone Trio.

8pm

Annual winter concert by OU’s World Music Ensembles (Akwaaba, African ensemble, and Pan-Jumbies, steel band) featuring Trinidadian trumpeter, percussionist and composer Etienne Charles. Charles has received critical acclaim for his exciting performances, thrilling compositions and knack for connecting with audiences worldwide. Perhaps more than any other musician of his generation of Eastern Caribbean origin, Charles brings to his music a careful study of myriad rhythms from the French-, Spanish-, English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. Mark Stone and Patrick Fitzgibbon – ensemble directors.

8pm

The OU Jazz Band and Steel Drum Combo (Pan Jazz) combine forces to perform innovative new compositions for Big Band with Steel Drums by Etienne Charles & Mark Stone. Mark Stone and Miles Brown, ensemble directors.

Sponsored by Carnatica

2pm

Research Presentation

Embaire - Xylophone Music of Busoga, Uganda

8pm

Annual fall concert by OU's World Music Ensembles (Akwaaba, African drum ensemble; Ngoma, African xylophone ensemble; and Pan-Jumbies, steel band) featuring legendary percussionist Bill Summers. 

8pm

Multiple Grammy, Billboard and Emmy award-winning musician Bill Summers is a pioneer in the field of world percussion. Joining Summers in concert will be Oakland University's Faculty Jazz Quartet.

Sets at 7:30 and 9:00pm

CD Release Concert!

4pm to 7pm

Sponsored by the Lyman Woodard Organization for the Arts

Mark Stone - Double Second Pans

Lesley-Anne Stone - Lead Pan

Miles Brown - Electric Bass

Leonard King -Drums

Miguel Gutierrez - Percussion

4pm

Concert debut of the Mark Stone Trio featuring Alan Grubner and Dan Piccolo.

Concert @ 1pm / Workshop @ 3pm

11:30am - 12:15pm

Featured guest artist on Steel Pans, performing music by Etienne Charles

4pm to 7pm

Dr. Prof. Leonard King--drums & vocals, Jerry LeDuff--percussion; Mark Stone--Electric Marimba & percussion; Ozzie Rivera--bongo & conga drums; Miguel Gutierrez--percussion family; Javier Barrios--timbales & percussion
Admission: Adults--$10.00 Children: $2:00 Family Pack: $25.00 (for a family of 5 or more) 
For more information contact: Leonard King DrProf2148@hotmail 

4PM

The Bernard Woma Ensemble performs the Gyil Yeru Concerto and Gyil Jumbie Concerto with the Berliner Symphoniker under the direction of Lior Shambadal. 

7:30pm

Steel pan master Andy Narell joins Relator, one of the leading calypsonians (calypso singers) in the world, featuring music from the CD University of Calypso with MSU Jazz Orchestra I, Oakland University Steelband & Mott Steelheads Steel Orchestra. 

7pm

Southpaw Isle brings performs its exciting blend of Caribbean steel pan music and jazz.

10am and 8pm

Annual winter concert by OU’s World Music Ensembles (Pan-Jumbies, Steel Band, and Akwaaba, African Drum and Xylophone Ensemble) featuring world-renowned steel pan artist Liam Teague. Hailed as the “Paganini of the Steel Pan,” Liam Teague currently serves as the Head of Steelpan Studies at Northern Illinois University and has received many awards in his homeland of Trinidad and Tobago. 

11:30am

Let the rhythm move you as percussion takes center stage with the energy and excitement of world-renowned soloist Colin Currie and the West African musical traditions of the Bernard Woma Ensemble. Experience the unique sounds of the gyil—an African xylophone—and other African percussion combined with Western orchestral instruments in the revolutionary Gyil Jumbie Concerto. Turn the beat around with The Philadelphia Orchestra!

Noon Concert Series - Noon

• Mark Stone - Gyil xylophone and Kalimba
• Sulley Imoro - dance, vocals and Lunna talking drum
• Sawande Keita - Djembe and Kpanlogo drum

Enjoy lunch with the performers following the concert in SC4 Fine Arts Galleries for $10 

 Seating is limited. Reservations required: Call (810) 989-5709 by Monday before concert.

Have A H'art - Annual Jazz Concert and Fundraiser - 8pm

• Quincy Stewart - Trumpet                                  
• Carl Cafagna - Saxophones
• Mark Stone - Vibes and Steel Pans
• Phil Kelly - Piano
• Miles Brown - Bass
• Sean Dobbins - Drums

1pm

Is Darth Vader a jazz fan? We may never know unless he attends this jazz concert for the entire family! Renowned violinist Regina Carter and the OU jazz faculty will perform music from your favorite movies, including Cars, Finding Nemo, Apollo 13, Goodfellas and more. Audience members young and old are invited to come dressed in costume as a movie character!

10am to 6pm

Percussion Day is targeted to all students, junior high through adult, who are interested in the Oakland University  experience.  The entire OU percussion faculty will be present which includes:  Mark Stone, Dan Maslanka, Mike Medvinsky, Sam Jeyasingam, Sean Dobbins with guests Miguel Gutierrez and Sandy Mabery.  The students will enjoy solo and ensemble coaching sessions; learn how to start a school drum group; learn to play the Kanjira; Jazz drum-off; Latin percussion; Steel drums and participate in a drum circle.

The day will be filled with exciting experiences from percussion around the world!
Note: Parents and Teachers are welcome to attend!

·      10am to 1pm – Room 110 Varner Hall

Solo and ensemble coaching with Dan Maslanka

(fine tune your MSBOA percussion pieces)

·      10am to 11:30am – Room 134 Varner Hall

Drumming in the Classroom with Mike Medvinsky

(how to start a school drum group - featuring students from the

Indaba Drumming Ensemble)

·      11:30am – 1pm – Room 134 Varner Hall

South Indian rhythm with Sam Jeyasingam (learn to play the Kanjira)

·      2pm to 4pm – Room 134 Varner

Jazz drum-off with Sean Dobbins

(play a solo, or bring your jazz combo)

·      2pm to 3:30pm – Room 110 Varner

Latin Percussion with Miguel Gutierrez

(learn Latin rhythms on drum-set and other percussion)

·      3:30pm to 5pm – Room 110 Varner

Steel Drums with Mark Stone (learn to play pan)

·      4pm to 5pm – Room 134 Varner

Jazz Drum Set 101 with Sean Dobbins (develop your jazz knowledge)

·      5pm to 6pm – Room 134 Varner Hall

Drum Circle with Sandy Mabery (equality through rhythm).

For more information, contact Deneen Stapleton at stapleto@oakland.edu.

8pm

Mark Stone, Lesley-Anne Stone, Issa Sall and Miguel Gutierrez present original compositions and arrangements for steel drums. While rooted in Caribbean pan tradition, Southpaw Isle continually stretches the steelband sound. The group's repertoire is shaped by a wide range of musical traditions, including American jazz, Brazilian samba, and Trinidadian calypso. The group has presented numerous workshops, assemblies, and concerts, including the world premiere of "A Caribbean Christmas Mass" for orchestra, chorus, and steelband.

Jazz + World Music Night! - 7 to 11pm

Third Floor (btw/ 2nd & 3rd Ave.)

7:00 Grupo Los Santos

7:40 Imaginary Homeland

8:20 Kakande

9:00 Grupo Los Santos

9:40 Imaginary Homeland

10:20 Kakande