SOUTHWICK — Nearly 20 elementary-aged children have gathered in a circle, many of them starting to play with a djembe, a traditional West African drum. The others are clamoring for hand-held frame ...

Gatti calls out a rhythm and everyone reproduces it. He pulls a cowbell from his bag of percussion "toys" and begins to hit it in a counterpoint tempo. He stops everything, then plays a series of ...

Rhythm, as American dancer and musician Gabriel Roth once said, is the mother tongue. Everyone can experience the magic, fun and stress-releasing benefits of a community drum circle, regardless of age ...