Drum Your Ashe Off

Drum Your Ashe Off Against Cancer was a cancer fund raiser held at the old Lansing School.  With a name like that, we just had to go.  The old Lansing School was easy to find as the town of Lansing has only one major road going through it.  Out on the lawn were tents and displays.

The Old Lansing School

There was a tent selling drums and another offering massages and Reiki.  

The folks at the event were not what I was used to seeing in Ashe County.  These people reminded me of the hippies of the 1970's.  We were there for only a few minutes before the drumming began.  Drummers were swaying and pounding on their instruments.  Girls began to belly dance.  One man played the flute.  The oddest sight was an older man wearing overalls tossing hoola-hoops.

We left before the finale, which was a live Celtic, primal folk concert.