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Medicine Drum Making Workshops

One-on-One and Group Drum Making Classes, as well as, Drum Circle Gatherings in Bend and across Oregon.

We offer Medicine Drum Making Workshops throughout the year in different locations around Oregon. We are also available to come to your home or location for a private workshop or gathering for your friends and/or family. If you are a business or Healing Center that has space and are interested in hosting us please contact us.

UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Drumming in Rhythm with the Ebb and Flow of the Seasons

During every solstice and equinox since we host a drum circle to honor our relationship to the seasons.

Upcoming Drumming Circles

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Autumn Equinox Drum Circle in Bend, Oregon

shamanic girl with frame drum on abstract structured space background.

Join us in ushering in the beginning of Autumn! Equinox literally means, “equal night” and around the world, cultures have gathered to honor this as a sacred day. The seasonal changes are a time when changing and shifting happen and we can take a sacred pause to honor what is moving inside us.

Sunday, September 21, 2025 at Pioneer Park
6:30-8pm

Call/Text Melissa with any questions: 541-280-3642

► No registration, Free event!
► Bring your own camp chair or blanket.
► Fun for the whole family!
► Event is cancelled if there is rain.

Deep Winter Solstice Indoor Community Drumming Circle in Bend, Oregon

Women holding and playing their sacred drums outdoors in the wintertime

Night comforts us with her blanket of snow and darkness as we celebrate the longest night of the year looking forward to the days when the light will return. Your winter dreams will birth new joy! Come drum those intentions together in circle!

Drumkeeper, Melissa McGlenn will bring Wild & Free, Bend’s three-foot bison community drum and if you have a drum or rattle, please bring it. Some drums and rattles will be available to borrow.

Sunday, December 21, 2025, location TBD
6:30-8pm

Call/Text Melissa with any questions: 541-280-3642

► No registration, Free event!
► Fun for the whole family!
► Event is cancelled if there is rain.

Spring Equinox Drum Circle in Bend, Oregon

beautiful shamanic girl playing on shaman frame drum in the nature.

Bring your drums and celebrate the Spring Equinox with a special evening of music and meditation, with a special focus on balance. Equinox literally means, “equal night” and around the world, cultures have gathered to honor this as a sacred day. The seasonal changes are a time where changing and shifting happens and we can take a sacred pause to honor what is moving inside us.

Saturday, March 21, 2026, location TBD
6:30-8pm

Call/Text Melissa with any questions: 541-280-3642

► No registration, Free event!
► Fun for the whole family!
► Event is cancelled if there is rain.

Summer Solstice Drumming Circle in Bend, Oregon

This Summer Solstice Drum Circle will be an opportunity to connect with our innate sense of play and the healing and gentle power of rhythm. In an atmosphere of respectful listening and sharing, we’ll connect with our own heartbeats, with our abilities to play in community, and practice responding to the rhythms of the natural world.

Drumkeeper, Melissa McGlenn will bring Wild & Free, Bend’s three-foot bison community drum and if you have a drum or rattle, please bring it. Some drums and rattles will be available to borrow.

Sunday, June 21, 2026, location TBD
6:30-8pm

Call/Text Melissa with any questions: 541-280-3642

► No registration, Free event!
► Bring your own camp chair or blanket
► Fun for the whole family!
► Event is cancelled if there is rain.

Would you like to host a drum circle?

If you’re interested in hosting a drumming circle on your property, please reach out to Melissa to directly and we’ll get it set-up!

If you already are hosting drumming circles and would like to publicize it on this site, in the newsletter and on Meetup, we’d love to support you!

Call/Text Melissa at 541-280-3642

You can have a Sacred Drum made for you or made for a loved one.

LIVING IN A SACRED HEART-CENTERED WAY CREATES A SACRED HEART-CENTERED WORLD!

Custom Made Sacred Elk Drum

$488.00

Custom Made Sacred Bison Drum

$555.00

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About

Melissa McGlenn

Melissa McGlenn is a sacred drum maker and rhythm keeper devoted to facilitating embodied Soul presence supported by your connection with the sacred nature of Gaia. In this day and age, many of us feeling disconnected and ungrounded. Melissa’s passionate about cultivating experiences that help you to stop, listen, and feel your connection to the rhythms of life itself.

Based in beautiful Bend Oregon, Melissa McGlenn works one-on-one with individuals, in groups and for organizations, making personal and community medicine drums and facilitating drumming circles.

“I would be honored to share the healing power of the drum with you. Drum making is sacred art that our ancestors, across the world, have been sharing for generations. Making your own medicine drum is Sacred. It is Healing. It is Powerful.” ~Melissa McGlenn