“Beat MS” Drum Circle

Sunday, August 10

1^st Drum Circle For Healing

The Paramount Ranch

2901 Cornell Rd., Agoura Hills, California

Special guest artists will join the circle!

Admission is free!

Stephen Perkins, drummer of Jane’s Addiction, will lead the Beat MS Drum Circle Sunday, August 10, at the Paramount Ranch nestled in Agoura Hills, CA. Perkins has asked many of his friends to join and help the healing begin. “MS has hit three family members of mine – yea, three!” Perkins says. “I’m hitting back! For me, playing the drums feels so good, it’s medicine. Let’s bang some drums together and make some noise. Join me at the Beat MS Drum Circle!”

Perkins, feeling very adamant about healing and helping people that suffer from MS, put a lot of thought into this day and has arranged for his endorsing companies to be involved. Remo has generously donated the drums, shakers and maracas, and Promark has sent a case of his signature sticks for Perkins to be able to give away as a gift to the MS people that attend; he will be signing the sticks as well as lending a hand in the healing drumming.

Drum circles are very therapeutic for the person with the disease as well as the family members and caregivers. It is a time to let go and feel the power of the energy that drums give.

“We are very excited that Stephen Perkins is so much a part of our goal to help people with MS now,” explains Nancy B. Sayle, founder of the Rock Against MS Foundation. “He is amazing. We did the March 2014 RAMS concert in Hollywood, and he contacted us and wanted to play this event. We talked at the show, and after learning he has family members with MS, I brought up a drum circle and he said ‘Let’s do it’—so now we are here. This is just the start of many, and as we get the hang of it, I hope it grows. We all need healing.” Advertisement

So come bang some drums and heal from the rhythm—this is a free activity and a gathering for people with MS, family, and supporters of the fight against this disease.

For more information, go to www.facebook.com/rockagainstMSfoundation.

Rock Against MS Foundation Mission:

Rock Against MS Foundation will provide services from a three (3) grant resource system, which will provide daily care, quality of life needs and emergency funding, while assisting people with multiple sclerosis (MS) to live independent and full lives. Additionally, a brick-and-mortar facility we will call the Rock House is in the planning stages and will provide free of charge, multiple programs and opportunities designed to heal the mind, body, and spirit of all those whose lives have been affected by MS.

About multiple sclerosis:

• Every hour in the United States, someone is newly diagnosed with MS, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system.
• MS interrupts the flow of information from the brain to the body and stops people from moving.
• Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. The advancement, severity, and specific symptoms of MS in any one person cannot yet be predicted, but advances in research and treatment are moving us closer to a world free of MS.
• Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with more than twice as many women as men being diagnosed with the disease.

MS affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and 2.1 million worldwide.