Official Web Site of the
Alabama Chapter of The
Percussive Arts Society

June photo

The latest issue of
Percussive Notes is now available at: www.pas.org



updated Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Alabama PAS 15th Annual
Day of Percussion

scheduled for Saturday, Februry 28

tentatively scheduled as featured clinicians:
Scott Johnson, She-e Wu, Steve Houghton,
Todd Sucherman of Styx, Clint Gillespie

please stayed tuned for more details . . .


The next Alabama PAS meeting is:
Sunday, July 20, 3:00 p.m.
Starbucks located at Highway 31
and Old Coumbiana Road
(near Salvatores and the new Publix being built)
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Click here for the latest issue of our
Alabama PAS Newsletter

Edited and compiled by Gene Fambrough

Thank you, Gene, for the great job
you do on our newsletter!

 

 

 

Upcoming events and news you can use
(updated July 17):

  • August 30 - 31: Drum Building Workshop. Join Tom Harris and John Scalici for an exciting weekend of drum building. During this two-day workshop you will be introduced to the joy of building a West African drum. All tools and materials are provided. Where: Children's Dance Foundation in Homewood, Alabama. For more info, please click here for a flyer and application and order form. Or email Tom Harris

  • Wednesdays, 7 - 8 p.m.: Djembe class. Where: Children's Dance Foundation in Homewood. Dates: September 3, 10, 17, and 24, and October 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29. For more info, please click here for a flyer. Or email John Scalici or go to his website at:
    Get Rhythm Programs

 

25 September 2006 (updated: August 20, 2007)

Message from Neal Flum, ALAPAS President
2007 - 2008

Greetings!

I hope this message finds you all well. Another summer has come and gone. We have submitted our year-end reports to PAS and eagerly await their grant award announcement for our chapter. Our new slate of officers officially began their terms this month: Grant Dalton, Vice President, Anne Rose, Secretary, and Clif Payne, treasurer.

Our 14th annual Alabama PAS Day of Percussion is scheduled for Saturday, March 8, 2007 at Samford University. Grant Dalton will be the host. We hope to have another successful event. Last year's was an entertaining and educational one and the new hall at Samford University was instrumental in making that happen.

If you want to keep up with ALAPAS chapter "doings," then please consider becoming a member of PAS. Doing so will offer you many wonderful benefits and place you on our e-mail list managed by PAS in Indianapolis, Indiana. We need your help and support. So, please consider joining PAS; coming to our meetings; and becoming an active member in the chapter. If you have agenda items for our meetings, questions, or merely need my assistance, please click the following link and e-mail me:
Neal's e-mail

Our next meeting is: Sunday, August 26, 3:00 p.m. in the Samford University Band Room.

If you are interested in joining PAS, please go to: www.pas.org and click on JOIN PAS. Or click here and go directly to the JOIN PAS web page.

I am proud to share with you that I was appointed Interim Chair of the Marching Percussion Committee of PAS and am humbled and honored to be serving PAS in that capacity. I am also pleased to share with you that PAS has moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, which is also soon to become the headquarters of DCI. It is already the home of Bands of America and about a six-to-seven hour drive from Birmingham, Alabama. The move to Indianapolis should prove quite advantageous to PAS.

There is much work to be done on our website and content needed. Always is. If you have events, information, anything relevant to our chapter, or if you would like to be added to our ALAPAS e-mail list, please send your information to me at: Neal's e-mail

We have an energetic and outstanding chapter whose accomplishments are the result of a great team effort by our members. Please consider not only joining PAS but becoming an active member of the Alabama Chapter.

Yours in drumming,
Respectfully,

Neal's signature and photos

Neal Flum

If you do not wish to be included in Chapter Presidents Mailings for your Chapter, log on to http://www.pas.org/Members and change your preferences.

GREAT NEWS! We have a newsletter! Dr. Gene Fambrough, Assistant Director of Bands and Percussion Instructor at UAB heads up this project. If you are willing to contribute content, have event news, etc., please contact Gene at: gfambro@uab.edu

 

 

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