Yoga at the Dojo,
Aikido Kokikai Southwest,
Tempe, AZ 2019
Video by Charrols w/89Films Productions

Facilitating The Way Forward is the Way Back, with Malidoma Somé, Michael Meade
Georgia, USA, 1996

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Playing bala for Aminah Fall, with the International Afrikan American Ballet,
Brooklyn, NY 1979

In the Children's Room
San Diego Storytelling Festival
Encinitas, CA 2015

Strengthening the Afro-Core World Passport, San Diego YMCA, 2014.
Video by Panthong Any Manychanh, 2014.

Tuning up at the Rhythm Room, Phoenix, AZ 2017.
Photo by Masato Kubota.

A bit of the Ballad of Railroad Bill....
Video by David Gumpel, 2018.

Facilitation Crew for Drumming in the Light, Christine Stevens' Winter Solstice Ceremony,
Encinitas, CA, 2016

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Pigeon and the Owl, a Choctaw Tale
Whispers in the Wind, Mission Trails Visitors Center
San Diego, CA 2014.

Folks ask, "Why no hand drums in the U.S.?"
The Story of Stono proves that the Spirit of Rhythm cannot be stopped...
Video by David Gumpel, 2018.

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Playing Lamba/Jalidong...
Senbi Wilson on Songba; Esther Ratner on banjo
Earth Mother Mind Jam, Flagstaff, AZ, 2000.
Photo by Vanessa Wilson.

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"Jalidong", the song of the Mande Bard, by Sankofa Strings, 2006

"Give Me the Candy"...a story of the Great Migration, the Great War, and my daddy and his parents.
AZ Republic Storytelling Session, 2011.

Living on Hancock Street, in "Bed-Stuy, Do or Die..."
c. 1985.

Such a blessing to accompany the great Ruthie Foster on "Small Town Blues"
The Compound Grill,
Scottsdale, AZ, 2010

The Hand of Love is the Most High, from the Drummer's Path CD,
Museum of the City of New York, 1994.
It was snowing outside that December, but we were hot!
Photo by Mansa K. Mussa.

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Back in 1982 in NYC, the group above, Cloud Dance, recorded the groundbreaking New Age Jazz-Funk album, Dance Free!
Below is track Four of The Seven: Gone!
Ashish: thank you so very, very much!

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The Repeat Offenders jam Aretha's Respect, at the Rhythm Room in Phoenix,  2018.
​Video by Michael Lunday.

Goofing off is a healing practice!
Mentors of the Social Justice Division, Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society,
sing "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" for the retreat attendees.
Garrison Institute, NY 2005.

Sankofa Strings, pre-Carolina Chocolate Drops
@
Cotton Ginning Days, Gastonia, NC, 2005.

The Drops play Rickett's Hornpipe,
Jug Band Jubilee, 2006
Louisville, KY

The story and song of the Monkey and the Buzzard: Straighten Up and Fly Right!
Tertulia Pre-College Academy, Phoenix, AZ 2007

The Grand Canyon, Arizona
September, 1995

The Giant's Causeway, Northern Ireland, UK 1998.
Photo by Gary Shaw.

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With Liz Warren, Director of the Storytelling Institute, South Mountain Community College, Phoenix, AZ
Celtic Harvest Festival, Sedona, AZ, 2001.
Photo by Mark Goldstein.

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Making Music with Sparky Rucker, ..., Guy Davis
Annual Fourth of July Community Lunch, Westminster, MD  2012.
Photo by Pam Zappardino.

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A bit of "cousining": big brother Ernest J. Wilson, III, cousin Alexis Wilson, yours truly.
Philly, 1992

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The Wilsons, outside Lo-Lo's Chicken and Waffles, Scottsdale, AZ, 2017

Sea lions: they feel like wet horses; they smell like fishy, wet dogs.
Vanessa and I in Nuevo Villarta, Nayarit, Mexico, 2014

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The "Wizzy Wilsons" @ Disneyland, 2004.

The Copasetics:
Charles "Cookie" Cooke, Leslie "Bubba" Gaines, Charles "Honi" Coles, James "Buster" Brown
with
The International Afrikan American Ballet:
Súle Greg Wilson, Gregory Ince, Clyde Wilder, John Blandford, Ozzie Simmonds
City College, NY 1980.
Photo by Vanessa Wilson.

Having a fun moment with students in their P.E. uniforms!
Antrim, Northern Ireland, 1998.

So many more exciting adventures to come!