Drum Circles

Hippies love drum circles and playing bongos and African drums in public spaces. These drum circles can erupt virtually anywhere that hippies congregate, and can last upwards of five or six hours, depending on the attendees’ supply of pot. In other areas of the country (i.e. outside of the Northwest) such confabs are often discouraged because the “music” is considered noise pollution, having been linked to the deaths of various wildlife, such as birds and squirrels and such which, apparently, leap from trees to the concrete below in an effort to escape the monotonous percussion. In the Northwest, however, hippies don’t care about those critters, and the drumming just keeps on going…