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Cori, Deb and Jessie 2 CDs
with
WombBOOM

You can BUY them now or download it from itunes

or just listen for a bit from each CD by just clicking  below

Our First CD
with WombBOOM
Walk Me To The Edge

or our 2nd CD
IF I Told You

JOYFUL RESISTANCE brings their music and their revolutionary rhythms to women's groups and other organizations through performances and workshops - sharing our stories, celebrating our lives, finding ourselves and each other.Weaving improvised voice and spirit moving rhythm with jembes and other percussion instruments, they take their listeners on a sonic journey that is organic, intoxicating and sensual - celebrating the lives and rituals of women here and around the world.

JOYFUL RESISTANCE began as a call to weave music and message together. We wanted to have a voice for our activism that although is often about struggle, and we need a place to have a good rant , is also about joy, about celebrating our victories, and our lives as women, and citizens, as feminists, as grandmothers, mothers, and daughters... read more

These women take you on a journey that is so sweet. The kind of journey that makes you hear the wind through the trees, the kind of journey that makes you know you are part of a village who takes care of each other, who holds each other and who through music, laughs and cries together.Joyful Resistance is both hip swaying, arm raising, west African drumming and soulful, heart wrenching, torch singing ballads. Cori writes haunting melodies such as found in "We Are Looking For The Women" - a song about violence against women and children.Rhythm is what we all know. We walk in rhythm, we breathe in rhythm, we chew in rhythm, we make love in rhythm... Drumming is primal, it is a mother's heartbeat, it is a protester's marching, it is known. Jessie's didgeridoo will make you close your eyes and recal the primal sounds of warrior women…read more

Cori Sandler - Improvizational Vocals, Drummer, Singer/Songwriter. Cori's voice is an intense palette of tones and textures, matched by an equally intense purity of emotion.
- The National Post commissioned Cori to write and perform the accompanying music to a photo montage of the day in the life of a Canadian Woman. Watch this video to hear her vocals.

Deb Parent - Drummer, Activist, Poet, Story-TellerDeb has worked passionately in the anti-violence movement for a quarter century and now integrates music and activism to create possibilites for change, personally and globally.

Jessie Steinberg - Didgeridoo-ist, DrummerJessie makes amazing sounds with her didgeridoo (a cylindrical pipe made from crystal, bamboo or pvc plumbing material). She taps a place deep in our souls, and reminds us all that our power comes from within.

Ellie Avishai - Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Singer/Songwriter.Our newsest member and what a voice! a voice so pure, angels have asked her to join thier choir!!!!!!!

     
This is where it began for 3 of these women as founding members of the Women's percussion ensemble WOMBBOOM.  WombBOOM has since disbanded after recording 2 CD's.

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