Community Resources

Tom Tom Mag
Tom Tom Magazine™ is the only media company in the world dedicated to female and gnc drummers. They are a full-color quarterly print magazine, website, social media community, irl community, events, and more. Tom Tom serves as the ultimate go-to guide for the latest information about girl drummers and beat makers around the globe.

Groth Music
Great venue in the Twin Cities for purchasing an amazing variety of percussion instruments. When you go, plan on plenty of time to explore – they encourage trying out the instruments!

Klash Drums
Klash Drums in Minneapolis provides drum lessons, a boutique shopping experience, trade and consignment, drum restoration and custom drum set builds.

Tiyumba Drum and Dance
Our African dance classes introduce the traditional music, dance, and culture of West Africa. Class begins with warm-up exercises to build strength, stamina, flexibility, and coordination. The rest of the class is devoted to learning authentic West African dances and songs as well as the history and cultural context for each song. The class is accompanied by live drummers! Whether you’ve been dancing your whole life or want to try something new, African dance with Fatawu is fun, creative, and invigorating!

Twin Cities Drum Collective
Twin Cities Drum Collective is a retail drum shop and custom drum maker; a great source for drum kits and accessories.

Duniya Drum + Dance
Duniya Drum and Dance exist to build a diverse community in support of the arts of the African Diaspora, specifically drum and dance. Duniya strives to provide a platform for artists to offer educational opportunities to a broad audience.

Taikollaborative
Taiko + Collaborative = Taikollaborative! A WDC co-ed affiliate group, Taikollaborative performs high energy taiko (Japanese-drumming) arrangements and collaborative worldbeat works, as well as nurturing the talents of modern composers — and comes together as a community through the love of rhythm and fun! This is an affiliate group of the WDC.

The Rhythm Reference Project
Listen instantly to djembe or dundun parts- Over 500 parts for djembe and dundun. Easily and instantly accessible on your mp3 players. Recorded in amazing studio quality by master drummer, Fara Toino, former lead drummer of Les Merveilles de Guinea. There is a cost for the downloads.

Hawkdancing Studios
The very talented Nels Linde makes many of the drums sold here -- a variety of Middle Eastern and African drums, and even bottle drums. These are excellent quality drums - with great sound.

Catskill Mountain Women's World Drum & Percussion Happenin'
This is an amazing annual women's drumming event in Woodstock, NY. If you can make it, go! Find out what Ubaka Hill is up to. Gatherings were put on hold due to Covid, watch their website to see when the retreats will resume.

Hiawatha Drum & Dance Jam
First Saturday of every month. 7:30pm - 10:00pm- DRUM JAM! Lake Hiawatha Recreation Center.

Kenne Thomas
A fabulous hand drummer and friend of the Women's Drum Center. His site offers information about his drumming instruction books.

Drumming The Soul Awake
Jaime Meyer holds regular healing drum circles. Visit his site to learn more about his activities and sign up for his newsletter to be notified of his wonderful drum circles.

Sheltered Reality
Sheltered Reality (SR) has dedicated itself to being a youth-oriented project, where youth members in SR use music and education as a way to reach out to audiences, motivating them to advocate for those in need, especially children and families.

Red Eagle Drums
They are located in west-central MN and offer workshops in Drum Making, Beading, and Rawhide Painting. Artisans can create a variety of specialty items; and will accept hides for handcrafting a unique and personalized, keepsake drum.

X8 Drums
The mission of X8 Drums & Percussion, Inc. is to provide our customers with the ultimate interactive shopping experience of world percussion musical instruments. We are committed to providing superior customer service, strong product knowledge, exceptional video demos, and the best selection of high-quality products.

MWDG-MN at WDC: Million Women Drummers Gathering
The Million Women Drummers Gathering (and MWDG groups around the U.S.) work to share their ideals: To be “awake” and “aware” about the connections between trees and our drums and percussion instruments, and to have gratitude for all that trees offer to music and the health of the world/planet!