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Welcome to ETHNOMUSIC, INC.

Dr. Craig Woodson, Owner
A World Music Education Consultant
Connecting people with music and instruments
 

STUDENT ASSEMBLY

"World Orchestra You Can Build" at
Furry Elementary, Sandusky, OH

The Firelands Symphony Orchestra, through its educational outreach program, was able to bring a special guest to Furry Elementary. Dr. Craig Woodson of Ethnomusic, Inc. showed the students the wide variety of instruments that exist all over the world, and how they can make their own instruments from objects that they may have at home.

Dr. Woodson Assembly and Workshop
with UCLA’s Design for Sharing

Dr. Craig Woodson describes his long-term relationship with UCLA’s Design for Sharing program.




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INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS

2016: Honduras and Ecuador
UNICEF and Playing for Change


In August 2016, Dr. Woodson was invited to bring drumming, drum circles and drum making to Honduras and Ecuador for UNICEF, arranged by Playing for Change, an international organization for building peace through music. His work in Honduras was with young people from broken families and in Ecuador he worked with Earthquake victims. In Honduras, his work was through the UNICEF Arts Center, COMVIDA. In Ecuador, Dr. Woodson worked with the well-known local Reggae band, Cocoa Roots seen in the videos. Below are videos about these projects.


UNICEF/Playing for Change Student
Interviews in Chamanga, Ecuador


UNICEF/ Playing for Change//Woodson in Chamanga, Ecuador: Earthquake Stories, Drumming, Students Rap Song 'Ahora, Soy Feliz"

UNICEF/ Playing for Change/ Woodson in Tegucigalpa,
Honduras: Drumming with broken families, song "Oye"

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2009-2010: Iraq For Kurdistan
Save the Children

Dr. Woodson’s two visits to Iraq with music
therapist, Christine Stevens

WHAT'S AVAILABLE?

ASSEMBLIES

• A World Orchestra You Can Build
  (Los Angeles, CA and Northeastern, OH)
• Adowa - African Drumming and
  Dance of Ghana
  (Northeastern Ohio ONLY)

DRUM CIRCLES

• Drum Circles for Students or Adults
  (Northeastern Ohio ONLY)
  
  

  TEACHER WORKSHOPS

  Coming Soon!

VIDEOS, RESOURCES, & AFFILIATIONS

Dr. Woodson's World Drumming For
All Ages Curriculum, go to the
Roots of Rhythm website.

16 instruments and rhythms from five world cultures, audio tracks, instrument making, and teacher resources.

Drums of Humanity a 501(c)(3)
For Dr. Woodson’s non-profit go to www.DrumsofHumanity.org and on Facebook

1. Black White Woodson Family Reconciliation
2. Alfred Benjamin Documentary
3. Drumming with Military Veterans

United Nations Compendium
Dr. Woodson's UN listing in 'Music as a Global Resource' (see pages 84, 178, and 195, as of April 2018) go to 'Compendium' at http://www.musicasaglobalresource.org/

1. World Drumming for General Music Classrooms: Roots of Rhythm Project
2. Ecuador, Honduras, Iraq, Java, United States: Drums of Humanity: Drumming for Reconciliation, Surviving Trauma and Recovery

See Dr. Woodson lead ROR bongo drumming
at ROR Teacher Workshop in
House of Blues, Dallas, Texas 2010.