Student & Professional Ensembles
Raices Gitanas Flamenco Ensemble
Vanesa Roimicher—dance Thomas Kimball—guitar and vocals Hector Salcedo—bass Don Skoog—percussion CMP offers Flamenco dance and music presentations to schools, libraries, colleges, and universities. For over twenty years Raices Gitanas has been educating and entertaining students in the Chicago Public Schools through the International Music Foundation. They have given many presentations in schools and libraries, as...
Middle Eastern Dance and Drum Ensembles
CMP offers educational dance and drumming presentations to schools, libraries, colleges, and universities. We explore the connections between dance and music while discussing the people and traditions of the Middle East. Each of our dancers brings unique talents and different experiences to the presentations. Whether we present the world of Arabic belly dance and percussion...
Percussion lessons and Student Ensembles
Don Skoog (me) is an independent musician, teacher, and writer who lives in Oak Park, Illinois. He gigs on drumset, Latin percussion, marimba, and Flamenco cajón, the Irish bodhrán, and Arabic percussion. His teachers include James Dutton, Vida Chenoweth, Gordon Stout, Karl Husa, Roberto Vizcaino, José Eladio, Rich Gajate Garcia, and Alejandro Carvajal. He has...