Sahara Dance

Our Faculty

Brad Sidwell

Sidqi (Brad Sidwell) has more than 25 years experience playing darabuka with experience in Balkan, & Middle Eastern drumming technique, and special interest in Turkish and Macedonian Romany rhythms.

Brad Sidwell

Brad has taught at east coast venues such as Rakkasah East, the Folktours Mideast-Turkish camp, the EEFC Balkan Camp, the Buffalo on the Danube Balkan camp, and at the west coast Middle East camp in Mendocino, CA. Brad has made field recordings of drummers in the US, Eastern Europe, and Turkey. He founded WMFC, a non-profit group that produces the Balktoberfest and Herdeljezi (Romany “Gypsy”) Festivals in the DC area, which has donated thousands to a charity in Macedonia. Currently he is director of percussion at Sahara Dance in Washington, D.C.