Sabar Drums and Clowns!

12:15 AM - Tue 9 February 2010

Well it’s been a couple of weeks since I posted something here.

Last Thursday I went to London to my son’s end of course presentation – he’s been training in clowning which is a very fascinating and deep subject – real emotions, tragedy and comedy is got in touch with and brought into the performance – he’s found it life changing.

On Saturday we went to Bristol to a day’s workshop of sabar drumming and dance with a great party in the evening and Sunday we came back home. I’ve got a busy week ahead – I’m thinking of starting writing my morning pages again to try and keep my writing mojo going – I used to write a few pages every morning early – just to clear out thinking and get all the channels open and flowing.

This coming weekend my dad and his wife plus my kids and family are coming for a late Christmas (well not really Christmas now!) so I’m looking forward to that – I’ve got to try and get everything sorted out before Thursday as I’m going to see Paloma Faith on Thursday in London and coming back just before everyone arrives on Friday – mmm – can it be done – I hope so!!!

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Back From the Gambia

3:09 PM - Thu 28 January 2010

Posted in Music


Just back from an amazing three week trip to the Gambia sorting out various things for the Kartong Festival and the Dombondir Festival in the Casamance.

It was wonderful to catch up with old friends and get some much needed sunshine.

Here’s a short clip of me and my friend Moriba (on the Kora) playing at a friend’s wedding in Brikama!

The anti-malarial drugs I was on Malarone didn’t do me any good though and I won’t be using that again!
Moriba Kuyateh and Chandra Moon


Here’s a link to some photos from the trip!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...98a4f9dfbf

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End of another year!

12:58 PM - Wed 30 December 2009

Posted in Personal
http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/12/...ther-year/

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Loadsa Money Needs Spending - eeeek!

5:34 PM - Sun 29 November 2009

http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/11/...ding-eeek/

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First Birthday and Vocalisation Course

11:50 AM - Fri 20 November 2009

http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/11/...on-course/

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Open Mic

7:38 PM - Wed 11 November 2009

http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/11/.../open-mic/

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Stinking Cold

9:47 PM - Wed 4 November 2009

http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/11/...king-cold/

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Sabar in Nottingham

2:10 PM - Sat 31 October 2009

http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/10/...ottingham/

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Action

9:42 AM - Tue 20 October 2009

Posted in Music
http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/10/...20/action/

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Sunset At Home

8:31 PM - Mon 12 October 2009

http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/10/...t-at-home/

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Tuesday in Bristol

12:49 AM - Wed 7 October 2009

Posted in Music
http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/10/...n-bristol/

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Cracked Ribs!

2:50 PM - Mon 14 September 2009

Posted in Happenings
http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/09/...cked-ribs/

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ABC - African Beats Camp

9:30 AM - Thu 3 September 2009

Posted in Happenings
http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/09/...eats-camp/

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Fairport Convention at Cropredy

10:24 AM - Mon 17 August 2009

Posted in Out and About
http://chandramoon.efx3.com/2009/08/...-cropredy/

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EFX3 - My New Blog Home

2:30 PM - Thu 6 August 2009

Posted in Blogging
OK - the time has come - I've decided to blog in one place only as it's too much trying to keep up everywhere - I really hope most people here are now at Efx3 as it's easy to use and got the features such as "friends" etc back and running.

My address there is http://www.chandramoon.efx3.com

Please let me know if you don't have a blog there - there's plenty of support there from Pixie if you don't understand anything (or contact me if you have a simple question!)

I'll keep an eye here for a while but from now on that's where you'll find me.

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WOMAD and other shenanigans!

10:27 AM - Wed 29 July 2009

Posted in Music
I think that possibly this has been the longest gap I've ever had between posting so I'm sorry for that!

I had a good visit to my son in London and a whistle stop tour of various friends.

This last weekend we went to the annual WOMAD Festival at Charlton Park - absolutely wonderful as usual - we saw some great bands and some smaller more obscure things as well. A fantastic beat box group called Schlomo, a group who emulated electronic music on hang drums, double bass, sax and percussion called Portico Quartet plus the big guys such as Yousur N'Dour, Peter Gabriel and loads more.

It got muddy and rainy on the last day but we didn't really mind that!


We worked a few hours a day at the Drum and Dance workshop marquees and that was fun too.

So.... busy, busy but I'm still here ha ha!



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Quick hello

10:57 PM - Wed 15 July 2009

Posted in Blogging
Sorry I've been such a dreadful blogger recently - just too busy to get to it.

Life's been hectic but interesting. We've just got back from the Drum Camp in Suffolk which despite some not too brilliant weather, was excellent as usual.

We've had one of our African teachers staying with us too and then tomorrow I'm off to London to see my son and various friends before heading off for a weekend with my daughter and son-in-law and my gorgeous grand-daughter.

Next week is WOMAD festival where we'll be working in the drum workshop area from Weds then finally the following week I'll have a bit of time at home in the countryside!

I've had a whiz round lots of blogs this evening though I haven't commented much I'm slowly re-subscribing to people either here or RSS feeds on EFx3 etc.

Anyway - hope you're all well and see you next week.

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Off To Drum Camp

2:10 PM - Wed 8 July 2009

Posted in Out and About


I can't believe a year has passed since the last Drum Camp! It's a relatively small gathering in Suffolk with daily workshops in drum, dance and song with wonderful performances in the evening.

It's camping or camper vans so we're taking Moon Palace - just topped up the oil and water and packed her full of drums etc!

It's very unlikely I'll find any wireless there so don't expect to hear from me till next week some time.

At last I have tenants for my Bristol house which I've let out and we're settling in well here. I get a replacement car next week after the accident and my shoulder's on the mend so all in all life is good.

Here's a picture from last year - I'll take the camera and get some good new ones hopefully! Pray for good weather - it's been very stormy here the last few days.




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Playing Flute with Moriba on Kora

11:03 AM - Thu 2 July 2009

When we were in Africa I spent a lot of time in between organising the festivals (ha ha) playing flute with my friend Moriba who plays Kora.

Here's a rough audio of one of the tracks - we wrote this one about the Dombondir Festival.

The photo is of the Kora I have for sale on his behalf.



01 Dombondir MP3


01 Dombondir MP3 from http://chandramoon.vox.com/





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Burgundy Canal Trip

8:58 PM - Sat 20 June 2009

Posted in Out and About
We got back at 3.30am today after a very long drive up from just south of Dijon back to the Dunkerque Ferry for 10pm then the drive back to Oxfordshire! We're pretty tired but it was worth the effort.

We had four glorious days of sunshine on the canal. We moved the boat most days to a different mooring. While P worked I lazed about enjoying the scenery and doing the odd crossword! Apart from cooking one meal I really did have a fantastic rest!

The views were beautiful - here's a typical evening sunset over the canal.



Here's a link to more photos - including one of how you get a small car on and off a barge! MORE PHOTOS

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WELCOME! This blog is about my travels, original music and songwriting, drumming, festivals and gigs mainly from Bristol, UK. I also post about my everyday life and happenings. Please respect that any song lyrics are copyright Chandramoon and shouldn't be copied without my express permission. There's a link here called Song Lyrics which will take you to my second blog dedicated to posting my lyrics. There's also a link called Chandra Moon's Music direct to myspace where you can listen to some of my tracks.

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