Drum Circles

 

 

“Co-operation and collaboration is the basic glue to a drum circle. A drum circle is a collaboratively self-organized musical event created “in the moment” by all the people who participate.

 

When we, as a community, drum together, sharing our excitement in the form of rhythm, it changes our relationships for the positive. As we play together, we give ourselves a rhythmical massage, an emotional release and a potentially therapeutic effect. The experience is different for every person that is in the rhythm circle, and it happens whether we are entraining ourselves into the circle by drumming, or standing outside the circle and listening while tapping our feet and clapping along with the music.

 

To make beautiful music together, with rhythm instruments, all we have to do is bring to the circle whatever rhythmical expertise we have to offer, along with the excitement of sharing it with other people. The quality of the music produced in an event like this is not based on the rhythmical expertise of the players, but on the quality of their relationship with the other people in the circle. The result is those magical musical moments where one powerful voice is created out of the many.

 

In those moments, the players stop worrying about keeping time because time, as they know it, has stopped. In its place is a living breathing entity, expressing timeless joy, passion and release through the power of rhythm. That is the beauty of a drum circle.”

This is a quotation from my Teacher and Mentor Arthur Hull. I met and trained with Arthur in 2001 and have continued to do so every year since. Drum Circle work is the core from which everything I do begins.

 

I am available to facilitate Drum Circles anywhere in the UK.

 

 

Regular Monthly Community Drum Circles are held at:

The Square Chapel Centre For The Arts

10 Square Road,

Halifax,

West Yorkshire

HX1 1QG

Tel: 01422 347948

Next Circle:

Sat March 27th 1100-1300 Facilitated by Steve Hill