Who can I bring?
Bring yourself! Oh, and bring anyone you or your little one loves to be with: siblings, grandparents, cousins, friends. This is a community event.
Do I have to have kids to come along?
No you don’t. The focus is on providing a place where everyone is welcome, the sessions are designed to be inclusive for babies, children and grown ups of all ages! We also have disabled access.
Cost:
£10 per family of up to four people; £14 for larger families; £5 for a grown up by themselves. This is a not-for profit event. Money is spent on rent of the building, any profits made go back into buying/ maintaining equipment for the group.
Who runs the circle?
Ruth Cohen-Rose is a drum circle facilitator who has trained with Arthur Hull, widely acknowledged as the father of the modern drum circle. She is also a mum, musician and music leader who runs Mish Mash Music baby and toddler music groups and lives in St Albans.
So why are you doing this?
I am a trained drum circle facilitator and do rhythm events with children and teens in schools and youth groups. I’ve seen how great it is at bringing communities together and giving people a place to share in the fun of music, so it’s great to be able to do that in my own community.
What happens at a drum circle?
People get together to play. The room is full of drums, shakers and other fantastic percussion. The facilitator gently helps you to make your own funky and fantastic rhythms, through games, exercises and songs. You make the music, she helps! As the session progresses, you notice the group falling into sync… and that you are all part of the music and no one is leading you. You are just making the music together. There are no mistakes as we are making the music up as we go along!