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Address:
430 S. Waterloo Street,
Thunder Bay, ON P7E 6E4
Phone: 807-622-1841
Sean Jesseau - owner
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Directions to 430 Waterloo Street South
Beside the Da Vinci Centre on the same side of Waterloo. Our large parking lot (Free parking!) joins with the Davinci parking lot. We are the end unit of a very long low building. Our main entrance door faces the parking lot and the side of the Da Vinci. Look for a 20 foot banner and large wheelchair access ramp. This was formerly the RCMP offices and more recently the Northern Native Tourism Assoc. offices.
Sean's Bio
Since starting to play drums at P.A.C.I highschool in Thunder Bay many years ago. Sean has gone on to study personally with several of the most respected names in World Music. Sean's first band "The Famous Regrets" were a big hit at Crocks n Rolls "back in the day". Sean was a founding member, percussionist and manager for Flamenco Caravan for 6 years taking the band from local and regional festivals to opening shows for Paul Shaffer, America and Jeff Healey as well as recording. In recent years Sean has diligently tracked down and studied with some of the biggest names in World Music.
Kwasi Dunyo - Sean brought Kwasi (a Ghannaiin Master drummer and Professor at Univ. of Toronto) to Thunder Bay 6 times organizing intensive 4 day study sessions for local musicians.
Mamady Keita - Grand Master Djembe Player and founder of 17 international schools. Sean has twice done week long intensive training sessions with the most respected djembe master in the world. www.mamadykeita.com
Bruno Genero - Considered by many to be the top non-African Djembe Master in the world. Sean spent 6 hours a day with Bruno in classes back in 2000.
Famoudou Konate - Grand Master of the Djembe. Sean completed Famoudou's week long training session at York University in 2007. Famoudou is one of Mamady's own teachers.
Glen Velez - Grammy winner Glen Velez is rivered the leading figure in modern frame drumming. This includes drums from the Middle East, North Africa, South India and the Celtic bodhran as well as overtone singing. Glen's week-long training ran 6 plus hours a day and included many techniques from around the world as well as singing. www.glenvelez.com
Arthur Hull - Considered the godfather of the North American Drum Circle movement, Sean graduated with distinction from Arthur's week- long training for Drum Circle Facilitators. Sean was chosen by Arthur as the first-up facilitator at the Oahu Inter-Island DrumCircle in Hawaii. (350 drummers!) If you've seen Sean's circles at Canada Day or the Dragon Boats then you've seen the results of this training in action. It's about turning people (even bystanders) into musicians-instantly! www.drumcircle.com
Sean has twice performed (Arabic Music) with Arabesque Dance Company principals Yasmina Ramzy and Suleiman Warwar (Toronto) and African Music with Group Soume (Toronto). Sean also hosted an introductory workshop on South Indian Drumming with Master Trichy Sankaran (York Univ.)
Sean performs every year at Echoes of the World Drum Festival in Sault Ste. Marie. Past performances have included solo drumming at the Bondar Pavillion.
A personal career highlight was performing with Grammy winners Howard Levy (harmonica) and Glen Veley, as well as with vocal phenom Lori Cotler in 2006
Sean also has experience with Western music having taken training at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto based on composer Carl Orff's methods for teaching children.
Sean is a patient, passionate and dedicated teacher. His main instruments are hand drums, finger drums and percussion. Mainly; the djembe, dunun, conga, frame drums, cajon, dunbek and drum set. These classes will also include marimbas and metalophones (mallets). The teachers named here have all had a large impact on the music Sean plays and on how he teaches.
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