Category: News
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The Old School Rooms, Clapton
Yesterday brought to a close the last session of our month-long, weekly stint at The Old School Rooms in Hackney. We had a great time, met amazing little percussionists and have been overwhelmed with the feedback and support for the workshops! Unfortunately, we didn’t take many photos but here’s a few we did manage to…
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Saturday Classes in Hackney
We’re pleased to announce that Bang Bang Drum School will be running weekend workshops in Hackney for the first time! We’ve teamed up with the lovely people at the Round Chapel’s Old School Rooms (2 Powerscroft Road, E5 0PU) and will be hosting sessions on Saturdays this February and early March. We’ll be hosting a…
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Classes in Nov/Dec
Bang Bang Drum School is back with a brand new course of baby and toddler workshops! Join us at Crumbles Castle in Islington on Friday 18 NovFriday 25 NovFriday 2 DecFriday 9 Dec You can book the whole course or individual sessions on Happity. We have two classes aimed at babies aged 6 months –…
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Open House Festival
We really enjoyed our first day at Beyond Beck Road! So many highlights: an interactive kinetic sound sculpture by Giulio Ammendola; Diddy Varley’s lampshade installation; the raised meadow by Luke Deering; and Eve Shillingford and Ross Aitken’s psychedelic lawn furniture. We’ll be running a series of free workshops all day tomorrow (Sun 11 Sep, 11am-4pm).…
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Beyond Beck Road
Join us on Sunday 11 September for Beyond Beck Road. Working in partnership with Open House Festival, the residents and artists of Beck Road will turn the street into a temporary autonomous zone. We will be running a drum workshop under the bridge (11am – 4pm), introducing children of all ages to a wide variety…
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Supernormal – you were fantastic!
We’ve come back on a high, having seen and experienced so much. We caught up with old friends and made many new ones. We had a great time facilitating the bucket drumming and sound walk workshops. Both the kids and adults were really engaged! We had an extra helper this time, too. Our three-year old…
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Supernormal 2022
We are really excited to announce that Bang Bang will be hosting two workshops at this year’s Supernormal Festival. Supernormal holds a really special place in our hearts as we’ve visited many previous editions either as patrons or performers. We’ll be running a bucket drumming workshop on Saturday afternoon, followed by a sound walk through…
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Valentina Magaletti
“The main thing that separates you from playing the drums or not is having access to a drum kit.” – Valentina Magaletti. Ilia Rogatchevski, facilitator and co-founder of Bang Bang Drum School, wrote a feature piece for the Wire magazine about one of our favourite drummers: Valentina Magaletti! You can read the article here and listen…
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Music Tech Workshop
Today we conducted a workshop introducing music technology at Crumbles Castle for kids aged 6-12! The children played various sounding objects (steel bottle, plastic sheet, cymbal etc.) with drumsticks and beaters. The objects were amplified using contact mics and processed with guitar pedals to make percussive compositions. These experimental works were recorded using a four…
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New Drums in Our Collection
Thank you to all our little drummers who attended the first session of this season’s Bang Bang classes. We have a few new drums in our collection: the kids drummed on a Djembe from Senegal and played on a Pandeiro from Brazil! Pictured is one of our young drummers playing a Plan Toys kit. It’s…
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