We provide a range of activities for all ages using the wonderful drumming, dance and songs of West Africa, playing traditional rhythms with authentic instruments:
Performances and workshops for any occasion
Inpsire, delight and energise your guests or your audience with a performance of drum, song and dance from West Africa, highly visual and uplifting entertainment for all ages.
Engage your team or event participants with a drumming or dance workshop. Fantastic for breaking down barriers and engendering team work to a achieve an immediately fulfilling goal. See everyone leave smiling with a shared experience.
Weekly African Drumming Classes Have fun making music, take part in wonderful rhythms from your very first class and build confidence each week. Classes are Tuesday evenings 8-10pm run my Jo May, at the Douglas McMinn Centre, East St, Chesham, HP5 1DG For more information call Jo on 07973 721260 or email me: jean@chilterndrumming.co.uk
Weekly African Dancercise Classes
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Here is a selection of some of our past activities:
On 23rd January 2011 we provided a drumming and dance workshop for a children's party in London with 45 guests ranging from 8 to 13 years old. All the children had great fun dancing, trying the different instruments, playing set patterns, improvising and soloing!
On 21st October 2010, Chiltern Drumming provided the entertainment at a fundraising event at the Chinnor Village centre. Providing a packed programme of drum song and dance performance and a singing workshop, we were absolutely delighted with the audience's response and enjoyed a really wonderful evening.
On 23rd January 2010 Chiltern Drumming performed rhythms and dancing at the Eden Centre in High Wycombe to open the re-launch event for the Bucks County Council Family Information service. This was to promote our African Dancercise fitness classes and dance workshops.
On 16th December 2009 Jean Quaife was the guest teacher at the Wycombe Swan adult dance workshop. "Thank you for a fun and inspiring workshop" Maria, Community Dance Officer, Wycombe Swan. Jean was invited back to provide another workshop in the Autumn 2010.
We had great fun in the summer 2009 doing an African Dance workshop with live Drumming at the Feast of St Peter. "Chiltern Drumming provided a fun, interactive workshop for all ages on Feast Day. It was great to see children and adults all trying African Dancing together - and also great fun to do!" Sandra Clarke Feast Day organising commitee.
We also performed at the Chalfont St Peter Infant School Summer fete 2009 with Drumming and Dancing.
Customer feedback:
Iain McLeod, Aylesbury: "That was outstanding, it made my night" following a 70th Birthday party where we performed story-telling, a couple of rhythms with dancing. Then we ran a workshop with everyone performing at the end including drumming, other percussion and dancing.
Jean Quaife also performs with Foli Drum and Dance based in Chesham.
She is a former member and the founder of drum song and dance band Africa Junction and has previously performed on numerous occasions with Vitae drummers.