The Magi Drum Line and Minot State University Music Division will co-sponsor a percussion workshop for area music students Friday on the campus of MSU.

The event is open to percussion students grades seven through 12 and their teachers, and will be held in conjunction with MSU's annual Northwest International Festival of Music.

The workshop will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a drum circle in the atrium of the Gordon B. Olson Library. The drum circle is open to all workshop participants as well as interested campus and community people.

Clinicians for the workshop are percussion instructor Avis Veikley and Jason Kihle, assistant professor of percussion and assistant director of bands at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. They will be assisted by the MSU Percussion Ensemble and the Magi Drum Line, an extracurricular organization of middle-school and high-school students from the Minot area.

Morning and afternoon workshop sessions will cover hand drumming and ethnic rhythms, trap set, keyboard percussion instruments and drum-line-style marching percussion. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will join students from the Northwest Festival to attend a concert by MSU Music Division ensembles at 3:30 p.m. in Ann Nicole Nelson Hall.

Percussion students need not audition nor be selected for the Northwest Festival to attend the percussion workshop. A $10 per student participation fee will be charged for students who are not taking part in the festival.

For more information contact Veikley at 858-3264.