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Muhtadi & the World Drummers

Rank #3 Toronto, ON, CA Reggae / Djembe

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Sounds Like: Djembe La Banda, Djembe Singapore, Djembé Sacré, IL DOTTOR DJEMBE', Djembé-Fola

Manager: Muhtadi Thomas

Bio: FOUNDER/ARTISTIC DIRECTOR – MUHTADI

Muhtadi has been performing professionally for over 40 years, both nationally and internationally, as well as devoting much time to community arts programs in schools and community centres. Trinidad-born, he immigrated to Canada in 1974. In 2000, he founded th... See Full Bio

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“The energetic, talented members of the Ngoma Dance and Drum Ensemble were performing when I returned to Queens Park. What an amazingly talented group of young people! The healing process for me had begun and continued as I allowed the spirit of the drum to move me. By the time the Muhtadi World Drummers finished performing Arima Tonight, Sangre Grande Tomorrow Night (a calypso first sung by Wilmoth Houdini in 1931) I was ready to relegate the dreadful spirit injuring experience to the back of my mind. I was too busy dancing to the healing power of the drumbeat to let anyone steal my joy of being alive and capable of moving to the beat of the drum. The upbeat mood and skilled performances by the Tivoli Drummers visiting from Grenada and the Baro Dununba drummers was icing on the cake (we were also celebrating Muhtadi's birthday but somebody forgot the cake).”

— MURPHY BROWNE, Soul-healing at the Muhtadi International Drumming Festival

“Toronto musician Muhtadi Thomas is tickled to be receiving a prestigious Harry Jerome Award for teaching at risk youth in the black community to play drums and other musical instruments. Muhtadi was among 16 community leaders who were named on Tuesday for the 29th annual award sponsored by the Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA).”

— Tom Godfrey, Toronto Sun

"The World Drummers comprise up to 70 members all of whom walked off the street and learned to play the African drum at that centre," Muhtadi said. "They come from all parts of the world, including Poland, Serbia, Pakistan, England and France." Muhtadi & the World Drummers will appear at Rhythms Fest in Barrie on August 4 and the T & T Independence celebrations at Queen's Park at the end of August.

— RON FANFAIR, SHARE Canada's Largest Ethnic Newspaper

“Led by the Muhtadi World Drummers, a host of top international percussionists are expected to grace the stages at the fifth Annual Tobago Muhtadi International Drumming Festival that will be held at the Signal Hill Secondary School on August 8, 2009 at 8 pm, and at the Speyside Beach Facility on August 9, from 10 am to 6 pm. ”

— Joan Rampersad, Trinidad & Tobago's Newsd@y

“What is it about the beat of a drum that unites cultures from all over the world? At the Muhtadi International Drumming Festival held this past weekend (June 6 and 7) at Queen's Park, drum troupes from all over the world from, North America to Central America to Africa to Asia, came to celebrate the drum and to answer just that. "The drum is a base of a lot of cultural expressions," says Tasha Thomas, the executive director of the Muhtadi Festival. "It takes different forms and it's used in different fashions, but almost every culture has a national drum or an instrument similar to the drum or percussive in some way."”

— Samantha Wu, blogTO

“The Muhtadi Drumming Festival satisfies all the senses: the mouthwatering aroma of Afro-Caribbean curries and ‘jerked’ foods, the delectable taste of freshly made fruit smoothies, the touch of strangers grazing against your skin as you dance, the dazzling sight of colourful African garments and jewelry, and most importantly, the pulsating drumming rhythms which can touch a physical core you didn’t even know you had. ”

— Liza Badaloo, Reading Toronto

“This year we saw great improvements on many fronts. We had two extra-regional groups, the Taiwanese Dance and Drum Troupe based in New Jersey, and Muhtadi World of Drummers from Canada. The presence of the Taiwanese Troupe and Muhtadi’s World of Drummers in the Drum Festival meant that we had two groups from cultures that were dissimilar to ours in many ways.”

— Grenada Drum Festival

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The 14th Annual Edition of The Muhtadi International Drumming Festival, June 8-9, 2013 for the 2nd year at Woodbine Park NE Corner of Lakeshore Blvd and Coxwell, Toronto (Beaches), Ontario, Canada.

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