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Gong Essentials: A Two-Day Workshop with Mike Tamburo


  • Oldest City Arts & Wellness Lounge 93 1/2 King street St. Augustine, FL (map)

Hosted by Safe & Sound Wellness at the Oldest City Arts & Wellness Lounge

✨ Join world-renowned gong artist Mike Tamburo for a transformative two-day immersion exploring the vast musical and consciousness-shifting potential of the gong. Open to all levels of experience, this workshop invites you into deep listening, creative play, and technical refinement.

📅 Dates & Times

Saturday, November 8 | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Sunday, November 9 | 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Lunch break will be from 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM each day. We encourage you to explore and enjoy one of the many walkable local restaurants in beautiful St. Augustine, or you’re welcome to bring your own lunch to enjoy on our covered balcony.

What to Expect

Through guided exercises, improvisations, compositions, and meditative listening practices, you will:

  • Refine mallet control, articulation, and dynamic expression

  • Explore rhythm, timing, and subdivision

  • Develop muting and dampening techniques

  • Discover new textures and extended techniques

  • Learn approaches to spontaneous composition and conduction

This weekend is both a deep dive and a celebration—an invitation to expand your relationship with sound, vibration, and the gong as an instrument of personal growth, change, and evolution.

What to Bring

  • A notebook and pen for reflections

  • Comfortable clothing

  • Any personal mallets or small percussion instruments (optional – gongs will be provided)

  • Lunch or snacks if you’d like (a refrigerator and microwave will be available for your use)

  • Water bottle

  • Filtered water and herbal tea will be provided.

Investment

  • $375 Early Bird (available until October 18th)

  • $444 Full Price

👉 Reserve Your Spot Today
Space is intentionally limited to create an intimate and focused learning environment.

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