One more comment... and thanks, Dani: (Isn't it fun when you are the subject of a joke and you enjoy it more than anyone else?)

At out church, we've started a new tradition of a very energetic praise song during the collection. I don't know whether the source is African, but now that I am thinking about it, I'll ask. It just sounds very much like the church music we heard in Ghana. The song is simple and repetitive and very energetic, and at one point the lead sings "Clap your hands with me" and then everyone keeps repeating the line, clapping their hands on every beat.

At our next workshop, maybe I'll try to get everyone to clap with a different rhythm. Me, a guy who has trouble chewing gum while he's walking. That sounds REALLLLL intersting to me.. take a simple black gospel song and get one group to clap on the beat, then add another group clappin off beat, and keep adding layers... another group clapping on all four beats and another clapping twice on the first and third beat, and another clapping twice and the second and fourth beat.

Alright, let's try it right now...

Hears the song...

Jerry