Advanced Rhythms with Ben Lawrence

Community Music Wales is Wales’s leading music charity. We are a community arts organisation with 25 years experience of delivering high quality arts activity, touching the lives of over 50,000 people since its inception.Our fundamental aim is to contribute to the empowerment of disadvantaged groups and individuals through enabling them to participate in creativity and learning, initially and primarily through music making. We develop participatory music workshops, mentoring schemes and community music training across Wales. We work strategically to identify need, delivering projects to give people the opportunity to write, play, record or perform their own music, using trained and experienced community arts practitioners.

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Ben Lawrence a ‘cellist from nine, studying music at Dartington College of Arts. He trained as a Community Musician setting up Community Music Wales. He played and toured with the folk group ‘Aberjaber’ and percussion ensemble ‘Drum Orchestra’. He is a renowned teacher running music workshops across the country for over twenty five  years. In 1992 Ben studied for a year in West Africa, returning annually to Ghana, learning from some of Ghana’s leading performers and teachers. He is also the director of Ghana Goods, importing, and selling musical instruments.
 
The session
I will run a day workshop teaching the basic skills required to play African (Ghanaian), drums, percussion and xylophone/Balafone. I will teach traditional rhythms and improvisational skills. Working at the level of the group and look at how we can adapt what we learn to use in varying community settings.

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