After serving and entertaining crowds at the Georgia Renaissance Festival, some workers and performers from the faire gather to decompress during a drum and flow jam. Several individuals I drum with in the core group of the Dragon Con Drum Circle also drum for this flow jam and invited me to support it along with them.

Four years ago, I stepped away from djembe to develop myself as a multi-percussionist. Eventually, I built a one-man drum circle kit. I created the standing version in May 2025, and the first version of the wearable mobile kit in October 2025. After gaining muscle memory with the custom mobile kit over six months, I borrowed hand drums from friends at circles through the month of May to get reacquainted with hand drumming. During this session, I brought my own djembe out of retirement and switched between it and my custom kit. The first ten minutes of this episode is a duet between myself on djembe and a friend on doumbek.

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