joined on 06/25/05
last updated 08/17/07
|
Raquy and the Cavemen with Fat Chance Belly Dance in San Francisco this Thursday!
( events » live music ) Thu May 15 - San Francisco Area
6:30pm - Middle-Eastern Drumming workshop with Raquy
8:30pm - Performance - Raquy and the Cavemen
Show
Show - $10, Workshop+Show - $20
Samavesha Space, 6115 Bernhard Ave, Richmond, CA 94805
event starts Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 6:30 PM
Raquy and the Cavemen on tour now on the West Coast!
( events » live music ) We are on the West Coast! Here are the dates!
Mon April 28, 6-9pm - Advanced Dumbek Workshop in Seattle
$45
Jamtown, 12729 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 888-JAMTOWN (526-8696)
Wed April 30, 8:30pm - Eugene OR
Raquy and the Cavemen with ...
read more
event starts Saturday, April 26, 2008 - 4:00 PM
New Shippment of Dumbeks from Egypt!
( for sale » musical instruments ) The Raquy Dumbeks Have Arrived!
They are all here in my living room...
read more
listing posted Mon, April 14, 2008 - 1:07 PM
Raquy and the Cavemen CD Release Party this Wed at Galapagos
( events » live music ) Raquy is back from Egypt! Please join her and the Cavemen to celebrate the release of their latest album, "Mischief" this Wednesday, April 9th at Galapagos.
Show starts at 8:00pm
Guest dancer - Autum Ward
$10 at the door
event starts Wednesday, April 9, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Raquy's Egypt Adventures 2008
(blog entry)
Helllo Again, You Dusty City!
Apartment
In a neighborhood near downtown Cairo is the massive tomb of Saad Zaghlool. Next to the tomb is a lively street with an outdoor market of vegetables, meat, clothes, textiles and household goods. On the mar...
read more
Helllo Again, You Dusty City!
Apartment
In a neighborhood near downtown Cairo is the massive tomb of Saad Zaghlool. Next to the tomb is a lively street with an outdoor market of vegetables, meat, clothes, textiles and household goods. On the market street in between a shawarma joint and a 24 hour bakery there are some stairs going up into an alley. The alley is lined with more vendors, and across from the fish stall there is a door. Inside the door and up the stairs above the Nubian men’s c...
read more
Egypt Blog, Feb 15 – Dumbek Fever Sweeps Cairo
I thought people and New York had dumbek fever! But I’ve never seen such dumbek fever as I’m witnessing here in Cairo!
My class at the University keeps getting bigger and bigger. Every day more people ask me if they can come sit in even though they’re not registered!
My students adorable, and they are so into the dumbek! They stay after class to practice. I can’t get them to leave! One of my students came up to me after the class to...
read more
February 9th
Fish Offering, Concert Planning and New Dumbek Design!
Meeting with Said!
We went to Said’s yesterday and had a meeting about our concert!
Rami, Dominique (the guy studying tabla from Canada) and I got to his place at midnight and he wasn’t there yet, so we got to practice really loud in his practice studio for a couple hours before he arrived.
Saiid made up for being so late by bringing us about 30 medium sized grilled fish wrapped in paper. This is like at 2:00...
read more
Raquy’s 2007 Egypt Adventure Blog
Here I am back in Egypt! It’s really starting to feel like a second home!
Apartment!
This time we found an apartment right away. It took about 20 minutes! Our Boab from last year hooked us up and took us to this place in Moonira. It’s HUGE – our friends call in “The Palace”. It has sequenced guilded elephants all over the place and an amazing balcony overlooking a very unique old building. The bedroom has this awesome 70’s decour with furniture t...
read more
We just got back from an amazing trip to Minia otherwise know as ‘The Jewel of the South’ ! Minia is a pleasant three hour train ride from Cairo, one of the first cities in ‘Upper Egypt”.
For some, reason, the government is freaked out by having foreigners in Minia. When we arrived, all the transit workers were saying stuff like “six Americans have arrived” into their walky talkies– we were the buzz of the station.
A van was waiting for us as well as a car of armed guards who followe...
read more
Sat, March 11, 2006 - 1:57 PM
permalink -
1 comment
!! Gypsy Musicians,
Baltimore/D.C. Drum Circle,
Belly Dance America,
Bellydance,
Bellydance Nation,
Byzantium Near East Music & Dance,
Drum Instructors,
![[moderator]](http://images.tribe.net/tribe/images/redesign/moderator_icon.gif)
Dumbek Fever,
I LOVE MIDDLE-EASTERN DANCE AND MUSIC,
MECDA,
Middle Eastern Music,
Middle Eastern Percussion,
Raquy and The Cavemen,
SCA Drummers,
Seattle Darbouka,
TABLA,
The Indigo Belly Dance,
Vegan Bellydancers and Musicians,
Vegan Cooking,
Vegetarian Belly Dancers,
...
This module displays a collection of your requests. To be visible to others, this module must contain at least one request.
-
Click the
 icon to configure, remove, or move this module.
May 25, 2007
Run, *don't walk* to go see Raquy & The Cavemen! You won't believe how this lil' gal can jam on her drum and on her kemenche. She must have magic hands. Plus she has a stage energy that simply shines.
In workshops, she's great at breaking down the complex patterns into bite-sized pieces that we can all chew. I was amazed to find myself playing a 7/8, a 9/8 and all kinds of cool patterns. The whole class was a freaking blast!
Go Raquy go!
March 12, 2006
Hi!
If you get a chance to see Raquy perform or take a workshop, definately do not miss it. I got to see her with the Cavemen when she came to Detroit, and it was fabulous and the impromptu after-party even better! And you have *got* to see this..rebaba? spiked fiddle? that she plays. Its a rare thing to see anyone play this and she plays it so well.
She is great teacher..very enthusiastic, patient, broke things down well, and is good at adapting to various levels in the same class. She plays with tremendous energy and obviously has a great passion for the music. Also, if you get a chance check out her book/dvd/cd set. Well worth the money, there is a ton of stuff in there.
Zahira
|
