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Priestess of the Drum: An Interview with Layne Redmond

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Carl McColman
Aug 19, 2002
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Author, recording artist, and drum instructor Layne Redmond is passionate about the frame drum, the music of ecstasy, and the recovery of women’s role as percussionist priestesses to the Divine Mother.

Loreena McKennitt sings about “drums that pulse in echoes of darkness,” and Mickey Hart wrote about how drumming took him to the “edge of magic.” Drumming…

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