Book a Bangdrum Workshop and embark on a cultural adventure in world music, dance & art.
Bangdrum CIC is a Community Interest Company specialising in bringing schools, educators and communities in touch with the best in World Music and the performing arts.
Here's what we'll do for you
Deliver interactive workshops that hit key areas of the national curriculum. These cross-curricular workshops bring history, geography and the arts alive in ways that children find irresistible and unforgettable.
Help you design your own workshop. We can help you to give your pupils what you know they need in a workshop, specially designed for them.
Help you to help your community. Bangdrum projects appeal to all ages and all cultures. Community projects that draw on drumming, music and dance can revive community spirit, heal rifts and change lives. Our youth projects support young people to develop creativity, confidence and knowledge of world cultures.
Help you build your business. A business is only as strong as its workforce. Bangdrum brings harmony to teams through imaginative and colourful, musical experiences.
Entertain your guests with performances that live in the memory. Planning a wedding reception or party? Our professional artists will make your event shine forever.
Train teachers in the performing arts and new media. We provide continuing professional development and support in all areas our work and support creative delivery with all key stages.
Source high-quality, fair-trade instruments for you to purchase or hire from theBangdrum Music Shop. We can also advise you on specialist percussion instruments to suit your project
You'll like what we do so much ...
Whether your aim is to breathe new life into history, geography and the arts at your school, bring your workforce or community closer together or get to grips with teaching World Music, make Bangdrum your first port of call.
You'll keep coming back!
Our international team of professional performance artists have been delivering first-class workshops in Britain and abroad for more than 15 years. But don't take our word for it. See our list of satisfied customers and hear what our clients say about us.
Schools workshop copy brief:
All our workshops are designed to meet the personal development and curriculum needs of both primary and secondary school pupils. We can tailor each workshop to suit the age and number of participants.
Some examples of our "ready-made" workshops:
THE BANGDRUM EXPERIENCE
Our flagship workshop in which pupils explore the themes of 'race', religion, equality and origins of the human race.....
GLOBAL BEATS
The Global Beats workshop is all about beating out and bopping to the rhythms of the world ...
CAPOEIRA
This intriguing hybrid of acrobatics and self-defence captures the imagination and propels Black History from the curriculum to the classroom ...
PERCUSSION AND DANCE
Choose a workshop that steeps your pupils in the life and cultures of Africa, South America, Cuba and South Asia and the percussion and dance styles they gave rise to ...
CARNIVAL ARTS
Bring Carnival to your school and bring students, teachers and the whole community together!
CIRCUS SKILLS AND BIG-TOP HIRE
Bangdrum Can provide workshops and demonstrations in all areas of circus skills ...
CREATE YOURSELF, CREATE CHANGE
This innovative package will help you to introduce pupils to the concept and practise of social enterprise and guide them in achieving the new Social Enterprise Qualification.
We can also work with you to design your own workshop. We can help you to give your pupils what you know they need in a workshop, specially designed for them.
How to find out more
Give our experienced team a call on 0161 273 7827, Call Leon, our artistic manager, directly on 07771 923 185 or send us an email.
Music for every child - Wider Opportunities
As part of the 'Wider Opportunities' initiative, we're proud to offer weekly, class tuition in West African, Brazilian, South Asian, Cuban, Arabic and Junk percussion, designed especially for your pupils. If it's too difficult to choose, why not let us run separate modules on each different style throughout the school year?
And depending on the styles you opt for, we may be able to offer subsidised or even free instruments for your school to keep.
Bangdrum artists are experts in their chosen area of study. They have learned their art forms from masters in th UK, Brazil, Cuba, West Africa and India, where melody, movement and drumming always go hand in hand. Our tuition programmes honour the traditions we borrow from these cultures, ensuring that we reference and acknowledge the people who have given us these gifts.
Our wider opportunities workshops:
• Raise the status of music in schools
• Improve behaviour, attendance and achievement
• Create ensembles to perform at school concerts
• Enhance elements of the music curriculum
Music Services are offered in Manchester, Liverpool, Trafford, Oldham, Wigan, Bury, Bolton, Salford, Tameside and Throughout the northwest of England.
Contact Leon to book or explore what the Bangdrum Music Services can do for you and your school.