Elmgrove Community Group – Drum Circle
21st of October 2009
After the last successful session with Elmgrove Community Group, we decided to impress them once more by bringing with us Thomas Annang from Releasing Rhythms and Davy Bates, freelance musician, for a drumming workshop.
Thomas, who originally comes from Ghana, offered a short introduction on the djembe, the African drum: its materials, symbols and use and then offered a short drumming demonstration. Powerful!... and as our meetings take place in the local school, we could see curious eyes showing up from behind our room`s door! I`m sure that made all the children want to be inside, with us, and get their hands on some of the drums we brought!
So much energy in the room: Thomas and Davy have such a lovely way of getting the instructions across and making things seem easy! Don`t think I`m mistaken by saying that at the end of our time together, we all felt we could be potential drummers! Imagine that for a confidence boost!
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