Posted in Uncategorized Posted on February 1, 2012 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
The Drumroots team were lucky enough to be invited to the primary school part of,
Oasis Academy, Limeside, Oldham. There to work with the children of years 1 and 2, to bring an exciting finale to their ‘Africa Topic’, and to culminate there studies in a memorable experience. This friendly and welcoming school is just one of a large network of outstanding schools countrywide who, as well as delivering first-class and innovative education, also build 'Hubs' in the areas in which it works; providing integrated and diverse services to benefit the whole person and the whole community.
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Posted in Music & Video, Tanante Performance Group, Uncategorized Posted on February 1, 2012 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
As part of an expansion, opening 17 new global routes in 2011, including Cape Town, Buenos Aires and Xiamen, the Manchester Airport branch of
KLM-Air France-Delta, hosted an event and trade show, held in the prestigious heights of
Cloud 23 bar of the
Manchester Hilton Hotel building to which they invited Drumroots to deliver rather special performance...
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Posted in Tanante Performance Group Posted on January 12, 2012 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
Drumroots are proud to announce that we are to be part of this year’s; The Times presents: Destinations, The Holiday & Travel Show. Being held in Manchester for the first time, The Times have invited our West African drumming performance group, Tanante with friend and guest artist djembe player Iya Sako to appear as part of the events entertainment on the World Entertainment Stage.
The Show will be held at Events City, Manchester from Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd of January 2012; Tanante and Iya will be performing every day for the duration. Performance times for Tanante are below, but further details, plus all the other acts due to perform at the show can be found on the World Entertainment Stage page.
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Posted in African Dance Workshops, African Drumming Workshops, Tanante Performance Group, Uncategorized Posted on January 10, 2012 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
After a well deserved Christmas break the drumroots team are back with Manchester's longest running West
African drumming class. These mixed ability workshops are suitable for total beginners right through to advanced djembe players. The year will start with a run of workshops focusing on Malinke rhythms from the North East of Guinea specifically Kouroussa and Sanbaralla, home of Famoudou Konate one of the worlds most renowned djembe masters. For 2012 we will see more classes focused on the dun duns and with even more support from the members of the performance group Tanante.
African dance classes with Sens Sagna are back too. Learn choreography, solo dance and traditional Senegalese songs in this fun and friendly environment. Again with support from Tanante. A great way to learn African culture and keep fit!
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Posted in African Drumming Workshops, Music & Video, Tanante Performance Group Posted on December 16, 2011 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
This coming February the UK will see a return visit from a very special West African djembe fola, none other than Mamady Keita! It’s been a long time since he’s been on these shores and it’s a very special opportunity to learn djembe and dundun from Mamady, who is now widely regarded as one of the greatest teachers of traditional djembe music in the world. Organised by the good people down south at Djembeschool, this full weekend event will be hosted in Bristol, February 2012. Held at DMAC (Dance, Music, Arts Collective), the weekend will consist of daytime 2.5 hour workshop sessions on Saturday and Sunday pitched at intermediate and advanced levels. On the Saturday night there will be a full performance programme with a line up including Tolo Ko Tolo, Hamana, Swedish dancer Sara Galan and our very own Tanante with Iya Sako.
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Posted in Tanante Performance Group Posted on December 1, 2011 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
So often at weddings you find the norm with background music throughout the day and later, at a wedding party it will descend into cheesy discos or cover bands. However why not make an impact with something a little different….something to really get people up on their feet. Tanante, our African drumming performance group love to play gigs to an audience that loves it We have performed at many weddings and we have never failed to captivate an audience. We can be the best addition to your wedding celebrations, bringing a very special day to a powerful and energetic climax, with all your guests dancing together to the same beat and untied with in each other’s energy and the power of the rhythms.
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Posted in African Drumming Workshops Posted on December 1, 2011 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
After the success of our initial ‘taster’ sessions for the Ansel Group; a clinic for men with personality disorders who may have additional complex needs and have challenged other service provisions, and the carers and people who run the clinic could see how much the patients benefited from playing drums together, we were invited back to the Nottingham clinic to deliver a further series of drumming sessions.
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Posted in African Drumming Workshops, Uncategorized Posted on November 25, 2011 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
With the varied nature of the work that we do, we see a range of people in the community in different group sizes, ages and walks of life, and in many different settings and environments. The majority of the time when we go to venues, schools and businesses there will be a qualified and designated first aider on hand, however, we are often the first people on hand when teaching in the classroom, performing in a club or running a workshop in a field at a community festival. Knowing the basics of first aid can genuinely make the difference between serious injury or even life and death with some training in how to follow the basic steps and measures. This is why Drumroots feel it is important to have a first aider in our team and now has a HSE approved certified first aider as well as first aid kit with us on our jobs.
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Posted in Music & Video, Tanante Performance Group, Uncategorized Posted on November 23, 2011 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
It’s nearly a month since Drumroots Live, held at Manchester’s fine venue: The Platt Chapel. This charity event held was to raise money and give all proceeds to Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) for their work in helping bring aid to people affected in the current East-African crisis. For those who didn’t know or missed this event, a short recap:
As you no doubt know there has been and is a huge amount of difficulty and problems in East Africa. These problems are not only the cause of on-going conflict and mismanagement, but the addition of one of the worst droughts in the countries history. Though the relatively recent rains may have eased the drought at least, the problems continue and the on-going, compassionate work of groups and organisations bringing much needed aid to the affected areas are essential.
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Posted in African Drumming Workshops, Uncategorized Posted on November 11, 2011 by John Tullo | Leave a comment »
The Royal Northern College of Music provides musical training for its students not just in classical music and with students selected main instrument, but will bring in the additional alternative musical styles and providers to give the students an opportunity to learn music from very different traditions and learn in a very different way than they may be used to. Having run several courses for the RNCM students in the past, we were in very familiar territory but on this occasion this workshop was just a one off, with an hour to give those attending an introduction to West African drumming.
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