"DRUM!" Coming to Pitt-Bradford

Nova Scotia’s spectacular musical, “DRUM!,” is coming to the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford this month.

The show will take place at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 27, in the Bromeley Family Theater. Tickets are $10 to $12 for all students and $20 to $24 for adults.

“DRUM!” is a musical production with 20 musicians, dancers, drummers and singers from four of the principal North American cultures — Native American, Acadian, Black and Celtic — brought together in a single heart-pumping performance directed by Timothy French along with musical director Doris Mason.

“DRUM!” was developed in 1999, when it was conceived as a 45-minute main-stage show at Tall Ships 2000 in Nova Scotia. The performance was so popular that it went on tour to a series of international conferences and was broadcast on the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

In 2004, the show was turned into a full-length production running for 10 nights in its own specially designed theater on the waterfront in Halifax. Tourists and locals alike embraced the show, and the next year it had a five-week run. The show began touring the U.S. later that year.

Audiences can expect exciting costumes, Aboriginal powwow chanting, Highland dancing, Acadian fiddling and spirituals to communicate the message of “DRUM!”: “We can hold on to who we are and still share a song, a stage, a country, a world.”

“We wanted to bring DRUM! to Pitt-Bradford because of the multi-cultural stage experience that the audience will encounter,” said Patty Colosimo, coordinator of arts programming at Pitt-Bradford, “it is a show that includes an exciting blend of music, dance, poetry, video, rhythm, and song… a truly rare musical event fused with a history lesson.”

For tickets, call the Bromeley Theater Box Office at (814)362-5113.

For disability-related needs, contact the Office of Disability Resources at (814)362-7609 or clh71@pitt.edu.

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