LP is proud to announce that longtime artist/clinician Jim Greiner has earned kudos in the September 2004 issue of Drum! magazine. In the annual Drummies Readers’ Poll, singling out the best of the best, the LP/Greiner production Community Drumming for Health and Happiness took top honors in the category Percussion DVD/Video of the Year.

The video examines various ways to get involved in communal drumming activities, and, thus, enhance health, happiness, and fitness. One of the strengths of this motivational DVD is that it succeeds in teaching drumming techniques without preaching, underscoring the fact that, at its root, drumming can be fun! Such is obviously the case among the participants of the whopping fifty person drum circle presented in the video. Drum! readers obviously appreciated the mix of education and recreation depicted in Community Drumming for Health and Happiness—enough to place it above all other videos in the same category.

The DVD, as Jim Greiner puts it, “is an excellent adjunct to our Recreational and Community Drumming Program, and the award comes at a great time: I’ve been busy doing drum circles and Facilitation

Drum! magazine’s Andy Doerschuk comments, “I met Jim Greiner in Santa Cruz—the hotbed of the drum circle movement—in the late eighties. He was perfectly poised to spearhead that movement. Then as now, his standpoint has been to honor the goals of that movement—as opposed to becoming a star. He deserves this award!”

LP takes pride in supporting endorser Jim Greiner in his mission to raise awareness of the beneficial effects of playing percussion. Like Greiner, LP is concerned with fostering communal drum activities aimed at all demographic groups, young and old alike.