Off camera Augustin leads with bell in hand, as a drummer and three women share songs as the kids fill in with vigor. A different kind of playing goes on here all the time. Here, they get to play drums and bounce on benches with smaller percussion, or waving a piece of cloth as if at a parade, around benches with the family.
The family concession serves as the home base for meetings, drum rehearsals, construction, or repair. Thus the family unit lives in an amazing space. Exposed and involved in all activities, their wonderful concession is surrounded by a small coconut grove.
It is just far enough from the side road, accessed only by a small footpath, with a spacious inner courtyard, and drums regally displayed under a large rain-shade canopy. Here three women, two men and 6 kids sing songs to share a midday break in a place quite familiar to them, their home.