For Playgroups, Childcare, Kindergartens and Preschools

DRUMMING AND MUSICAL EXPLORATION, STORIES, CULTURE AND INSTRUMENTS FROM ALL OVER AFRICA, DANCING AND SINGING.
Drumming together is a powerful method of building children’s confidence and self-esteem because it is so much fun beating a drum, even the most disconnected child finds it hard to resist beating on a drum with friends.
We bring all the African Drums and Percussion instruments along with stories, songs, movement, dance, fun learning activities and games! EVERY child will play on their own African Djembe drum and percussion instrument and learn about the Culture, the Tribes, specific Rhythms from each Country within the African continent, the Traditional Dress, and how African instruments are made, all as much as possible within our animated storytime and demonstrations. There is lots of singing, dancing, laughing and hands on playing all the drums and unique African percussion instruments as we take them on a West African musical drumming adventure.
HERE COME THE DRUMS Kinder captures and retains children’s undivided attention, ignites their imagination and allows them to express their enthusiastic energy in the most positive way. We mix in fun music activities whilst sharing educational and multicultural concepts throughout whilst allowing freedom to explore naturally.
•All the sounds on all the drums and percussion instruments
•Body Percussion and easy African Dance moves
•Drum Circle – Music Ensemble playing
•Basic rhythms
•Counting in
•Rumbles and Drum rolls
•Conductor – be the leader helping the group to make original music together
•Call and response with easy rhythmic patterns and songs
•A range of African percussion instruments and Djembe drums
•Lots of FUN, enjoyable NOISE, MUSIC and much more.
In a drum circle style setting, our professional musician actively creates a welcoming environment inviting everyone to join in by introducing easy-to-play rhythms for everyone to play together as a whole, thus evoking a sense of belonging and feeling connected. There are drum roll rumbles, heart-beat grooves, drum head skin ‘swish and scratches’, Elephant stomps, Lion roars and much more. We sing too! The African drumming experience is not the same without some beautiful African songs and chants that are easy-to-sing or call out to each other.
One of the techniques we employ is Call and Response whereby a child plays a simple rhythm, then all their drum circle friends repeat the rhythm back to them. A very powerful tool that actively encourages all musical ideas from the children empowering them, building confidence and giving them success at the same time. It also builds listening skills and respect for everyone, making the drumming experience valid and complete as a group. We also use this technique for the singing
• Listening, Concentration and Memorisation
• Counting and Rhythmic Patterns
• Bonding, Confidence, Self Esteem and Encouraging others• Social and emotional learning
• Coordination and Physical Memory
• Fine and Gross Motor Skills
• Absorbing other Cultures
• Enjoyment and fun with music
• Absorb multicultural rhymes, songs, musical games and dances.
• Learn how to play instruments.
• Learn to express themselves freely, engaging imaginative play and storytelling to create musical ideas
• Finding their own natural body rhythms. swaying and rocking their body to a beat Clapping, tapping, and finding the steady pulse
• Learn simple Rhythms, how long a percussive sound will last, how several percussive sounds linked together make musical Patterns.
• Absorb and understand Pitch – high and low sounds.
• Absorb and understand Dynamics – loud and soft.
• Absorb and understand Tempo – fast and slow.
Our Early Years incursion programs are age appropriate engaging both babies and toddlers with age suitable gathering drums and percussion instruments whilst they observe, learn and participate along with Kindergarten and preschool age children as they sing, dance, drum and imaginatively play throughout our musical adventures
If a ‘Whole Centre’ incursion is not ideal for your centre, we happily work with our second format of 2 sessions.
Babies and Toddlers freely exploring all instruments in the natural play setting, then Toddlers, Kindergarten and Preschool age children for their own separate incursion time.
Our Whole Centre Incursions run for 45-60 minutes.
If we are running 2 sessions, Babies and Toddlers will have their own earlier session of 20-25 minutes. We then set up again ready for Kindergarten and Preschool age.
Our Drumming practitioners are tertiary trained professional musicians
who perform and conduct workshops regularly engaging with audiences of all ages from all walks of life and experiences.bringing with them collaborative creative skills with expertise drawn from music platforms of composition, songwriting, performance, sound recording and educational facilitation.
With over 20 years of program development and experience, our workshops are delivered with a fun and natural style approach paying particular attention to building skills using traditional, contemporary and original music.
Our workshops have been developed into inspirational music programs, incorporating interactive musical games, body percussion, drum circles, improvisation techniques and exploration of a brought spectrum of untuned and tuned instruments.
“The drumming workshop was fantastic! Everybody LOVED it!” Toni B
“The incursion was such a pleasure to have here, a very skilled musician and able to educate and entertain all the age groups we have here, a fantastic, fun day for my centre. The babies and toddlers were totally engaged” Sarah H
“The kids LOVED the African Drumming! Your facilitator was a fantastic educator and the children really enjoyed the “hands-on” aspect. They all joined in and we had smiles everywhere” Faith M
“The artists from Ananiah Studios were very professional and very talented, flexible in meeting our needs, and all our participants adored them. What a great day!” Carla Z