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Learn West African drumming and dance with master drummer Sibo Bangoura. Weekly classes three nights a week, and the First Class Free.
First Class
Free.
Three halls, three nights, all levels in the same room. Complete beginners alongside people who have played for years, and a drum to hire if you need one.
Sibo Bangoura
Born into a griot family in Guinea, West Africa, where the music is not a hobby you pick up. It is the family trade, handed down from the time you can hold a drum.
Decades of teaching around the world, now based in Sydney. He puts complete beginners and people who have played for ten years in the same circle, and somehow it works for both.
Born into the tradition in Guinea, not a style he took up
Teaching drum and dance, in West Africa and in Australia
First-timers and ten-year players in the same circle
Bring your own, or play one of his
Five ways in.
What people say after.
I'd never touched a drum and spent the first hour certain I'd be the one holding everyone up. By Wednesday I was the one who didn't want to stop.
I booked on my own and worried about that far more than the drumming. By the second dinner I'd forgotten I came alone. Nobody is keeping score.
I'm fifty-eight and I was quietly sure I'd be the oldest there. I was somewhere in the middle. The range of people is honestly the best part of it.
It is more physical than I expected. My arms let me know about it on the Tuesday. Sibo tells you to sit one out and means it, so I did, and then I got back in.
The Thursday night is the thing I keep describing to people and failing to explain properly. Thirty of us, one rhythm, in the dark. I've never done anything like it.
I'd never touched a drum and spent the first hour certain I'd be the one holding everyone up. By Wednesday I was the one who didn't want to stop.
I booked on my own and worried about that far more than the drumming. By the second dinner I'd forgotten I came alone. Nobody is keeping score.
I'm fifty-eight and I was quietly sure I'd be the oldest there. I was somewhere in the middle. The range of people is honestly the best part of it.
It is more physical than I expected. My arms let me know about it on the Tuesday. Sibo tells you to sit one out and means it, so I did, and then I got back in.
The Thursday night is the thing I keep describing to people and failing to explain properly. Thirty of us, one rhythm, in the dark. I've never done anything like it.
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