Tecumseh, MI – A youth drummers project part of ‘the Volmoed Youth Leadership Training Programme’ will be touring Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois…including a stop in Lenawee County.
Later this month, the South African Volmoed Youth Drummers Project..VYDP…will be in Tecumseh to lead a free community drum circle at Adams Park, near Tecumseh City Hall.
This will take place at 3pm. A second performance will take place that same day, 7pm November 19th, at the First Presbyterian Church Tecumseh.
The group began in 2016 at the Volmoed Retreat Center outside Hermanus, South Africa for young men and women from Zwelihle and Mount Pleasant townships. These young people learn how to make drums out of discarded pallets, play, entertain, and create an income from the drums they create.
They perform in schools, hospitals, corporate events, worship, and other venues. In the rebuilding of the new, post-apartheid South Africa, these young people from their country’s most impoverished townships create community, are psychologically and spiritually empowered, and deal with issues of ongoing racism and youth unemployment.
For more information on the youth drummers performance in Tecumseh later this month, contact the First Presbyterian Church Tecumseh.
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