VIDEO: Closing Ceremonies at Drum and Dance Fest

Participants learned traditional West African dance and drumming this weekend at the Murray Grove Retreat and Renewal Center in Lanoka Harbor. 

The women of Marafanyi, a drum, dance, and poetic motion company, taught the Doundoun dance, a Guinean dancing routine with drums, traditionally performed "ballet-style."

Marafanyi ended the fourth annual three-day Drum and Dance festival at Murray Grove.

Maire Fashjian and Amy Schindler of ViRAGO, a Freehold-based musical duo, led the closing ceremony of the event. 

Murray Grove's Drum and Dance Fest featured a number of workshops with teachings by Marafanyi, ViRAGO, Latin Drumming by Tom Brown, West African Drumming by Skip Leib, and belly dancing by Mihrimah.