**Come and have fun and learn to Drum!**
With Drum Master Mamadou Oury Diallo
Traditional West African rhythms that uplift your mood and help you de-stress whilst having fun!
Traditional African music creates an atmosphere of warmth, joy and connection between people. London African Drummings aim is to promote a sense of community spirit, wellbeing and positive healing through the...
[read more] **Come and have fun and learn to Drum!**
With Drum Master Mamadou Oury Diallo
Traditional West African rhythms that uplift your mood and help you de-stress whilst having fun!
Traditional African music creates an atmosphere of warmth, joy and connection between people. London African Drummings aim is to promote a sense of community spirit, wellbeing and positive healing through the transformational process of group rhythm.
The benefits of djembe drumming in a group setting are widely recognised and documented.
During this amazing, ground shaking and energetic African Drumming taster session you will explore and understand:
- The Cultural background to West African Drumming
- Different beats and techniques in drumming
- How to creat music as a group to create a togetherness
- How drumming encourages creativity and self expression and promotes self- confidence and a feeling of well-being and relaxation.
This Taster Session is capped at 30 people..!! So it will be first come first served!!
PRIZE:
You could WIN 2 tickets to Drum Master Oury's Saturday Beginners Drumming class, inclusive of djembe drum hire and 2.5 hours of jamming and drumming group tuition, worth £40!
**Start Time**
7pm for 7:30pm Start... Your taster session will last for around an hour.
**We will be collecting £7 on the door**
**Where**
Wellbeing in The City
Arena House
66-68 Pentonville Road,
N1 9HS
**Nearest Tube**
Angel tube station – 5mins walk.
**Afterwards**
Afterwards we will be heading to a nearby pub for food/drinks, discussion, connection & fun!!
Please feel free to share this invitation with anyone who you think would like to join us!
We looking forward to seeing you there,
With Warmth & Rythm!
Your Wellbeing In the City Team
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**About Drum Master Mamadou Oury Diallo**
As a young boy Master Oury Diallo has fond memories of laying down under a tree with his Father, enjoying playing music using an improvised Malian instrument fashioned from an old milk can, where he made a hole down the side and placed a wooden neck / rod from an old bicycle break set in it to make sounds. He shortly afterward realised he could make a flute for his Dad by making holes in the wooden rod and blowing down it.
Oury started to take an interest in drumming when he travelled from Mali to Guinea in West Africa with his Father. He would often watch Ballets African Nationale on the TV, then he went to Kindia for some years where he developed an appreciation and enjoyment of the many musical celebrations where everyone was drumming to "celebrate everything…wedding ceremonies, naming ceremonies, parties"; the music was "part of a generation".
For a long time children had to attend practise but hated it as it was treated as a chore of culture and not a pleasure. Oury would practise Djembe in secret, and some time later people realised it was communicating a message of peace and happiness to people’s daily living; it became a form of therapy. "Music is magic".
