Beat Your Drum: Native American Drumming with NaKi and his Dad: Beat Your Drum with Cruinniú na nÓg

Native American Drumming, Dance and Song: Celebrating the special friendship between Irish people and Native Americans stretching all the way back to the Famine, NaKi (17) and his Dad, Ace will show you how the Chickasaw people make their drums and sing and how to create a Snake Dance. Recommended age group: 5 – 18 years About the Teacher: NaKiKaRaGa is a 17 year old young man from the Chickasaw and Ho Chunk tribes. In 8 minutes, he and his dad will show you how he made his own drum to play for the Snake Dance and how children and schools in Ireland can make their own snake dances and chant to accompany with their drum. Beat Your Drum is an initiative of The Creative Ireland Programme to be presented as part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2021. Beat your Drum is curated by Brian Fleming and presented in partnership with glór.