With the addition of the Creston Brewery to the Plainfield Corridor, a lot of good artistic energy has really begun to spring up from their programming that involves local music showcases, Geeks drinking and doing trivia, and even the occasional stand-up comic night. It is refreshing to see another brewery in GR that understands that the creativity one places in their beer making also attracts those artistic souls and their friends/fans to this Creston watering hole.
On Wednesday night (and possibly inspired by Cabildo’s ready-to-bang drum lined up in front of the band at Creston’s first anniversary party last summer) comes
Creston Rhythms—a night of drumming education with hands-on audience participation.
Creston Rhythms will be led by Leah Ivory, assistant director of the Grand Rapids Youth Chorus, who will introduce attendees of various drumming techniques rooted in the traditional music of West Africa.
After the lesson, you will have a chance to join the drum circle held in the middle of the brewery’s taproom for a rhythmic jam session.
Leah, who has led many diverse groups in the past including choirs from the North American Choral Company and St. Cecilia Music Society, was introduced to the djembe while in West Africa in 2006.
Since that time she has been attending master training classes with Mamady Keita and Bolokada Conde, who are both master drummers of this West African musical practice.
Come have a beer and a bang at Creston Brewery where they remind us always to “Keep Creston Funky!”