African Drumming is proud to have led the Melbourne Walk against Family Violence through the city – a great turn out for a great cause. On average, at least one woman a week is killed by a partner or former partner in Australia. We all need to unite to help eliminate this heinous crime and […]

  The summer edition of our legendary high voltage drum & dance event is moving outdoors to enjoy the sun while pumping non-stop tribal music guaranteed to make you dance. This student performance event brings all of our classes from around Melbourne together to perform their ensembles’ traditional and contemporary West African rhythms. This Tribalism […]

Drumming takes you places! We were out at Jundah Racecourse (1300km’s west of Brisbane) this weekend for the Channel Country Ladies Day celebrations. Awesome place, awesome people, great times! Big ups to Gabriel Otu for taking the music and dance to the Red Earth!

Rich from the good vibes and happiness that was shared last year, we cannot wait for this new Bali Drum Camp to happen. It is the perfect occasion if you wish to expand your knowledge of West African music at a heavenly location, no matter what your level is ! For more information check out […]

We’ve been supporting the great work of a Ghanaian NGO called Dream Big Ghana for a decade now. Recently they have really stepped up their diversity of projects in the local Volta Region communities. When we first started helping, it was directed to their awesome sanitation / toilet block building project, and now they have expanded into […]

After the success of our inaugural world percussion extravaganza last July, we’re thrilled to bring another weekend of superb workshops & performances.  If you have workshop requests we’d love to hear from you

TRIBALISM – our favourite student performance event is back Dec 16th in Catani Gardens Experience African Drumming’s legendary high voltage drum and dance event. The place will be pumping with non-stop tribal music guaranteed to make you dance. This student performance event brings all of our classes from around Melbourne together to perform their ensembles’ […]

We’ve been busy making drums all week down here in St Kilda …Bruno our drum maker is pumping out the good stuff … check out some of his handy work on our Ghana djembe range which is well stocked – great value light weight, portable African djembes. Find our Ghana djembe range here on our […]

” For me, the djembe addiction took hold in my early twenties. Coming from a classical piano background, djembe was everything piano wasn’t! I still dearly love sitting down and cracking out a Bach prelude but it doesn’t compare to the feeling of playing djembe and being part of a whole community of drummers who […]

  “My drumming tourney harks back 4 years ago when my musical wife gave me a voucher for 6 lessons. Lo and behold she created a monster! Little did she know that my practising would overwhelm her music ever practice. My neighbours even tell me they know when my wife is away when they here me […]

“Since I was young I have always had a love of music, it didn’t matter what type of music it was. At school I always did music class and learned how to play guitar & trumpet ( but not very well !! ) but I always found myself tapping along to the drum beat, whether it […]

“For me the djembe is a powerful entity for humans to channel great energy and to transmit this energy in a joyous and spiritual way. Key aspects of the djembe and its culture for me are; The joy it transmits, The meditative aspect of drumming, The community and union that is created through playing the […]

” Every time a drum sounds, the world pulsates, a child is born , joy erupts, pain is felt….a heart beats’.. I heard this 20 years ago when I began my drumming journey. It resonated with me and meeting Simon and travelling to Ghana with him changed my life. I loved being immersed in the […]

“The first time I saw African drumming was at a workshop at Rainbow Serpent festival ten years ago. I’d never seen anything like it and instantly wanted to learn, thinking wow, wouldn’t it be great to play in a band at festivals, never dreaming that two years later that’s exactly what I’d be doing! Six […]

“My first exposure to traditional African drumming was in 1983 when C.K. Ladzepko was touring around Australia. Since then I have I integrated it into my own community drumming and dance group Wild Moves on the Surf Coast. This photo was taken at Seven Sisters Festival where I have been involved in creating the Opening […]

We are Excited about our Summer Drum Retreat in late Feb. Two wonderful African musicians joining us. Djembefola extraordinaire Mohamed Camara from Guinea and mutli-talented Emmanuel Aryeetey from Ghana. Always a great weekend immersion full of quality tuition and lots of fun jams. We’ll be putting on a concert Sat night too so come on […]