We were asked to provide a drumming workshop for 100 first year Bristol university students for the their field trip at Glastonbury. Our venue was the wonderful Glastonbury Town Hall which worked really well for this. The students split into three groups, one to look at Glastonbury Tor, another viewing the town […]
2019
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Bristol Encontro 2019 featured 11 local percussion groups performing back to back on one night. Orin Asé Olá Samba Afon Sistema* Drum Machine** Ilu Axé** The African Sambistas Carnaval Transatlântico Barracwda Bloco B* Batala Bristol Jamma De Samba** DJ Ru Robinson * – members of our group performed with this […]
We played a short set on the dance stage at Bristol Pride. This year the event was held on The Downs in Bristol. Pride day was only part of a much longer programme of events. We arrived to find a festival site with multiple stages. It looked a bit empty […]
If you’re interested in joining us or just want to try something new then we have Bristol drum and dance workshops coming up in October. No experience is required, just come and get involved. If you enjoy it then you are welcome to join us for the weekly classes. Ultimately, […]
St Paul’s Carnival is an annual multi-cultural event held in the St Paul’s area of Bristol (Wikipedia, official website). The Saturday procession included the following percussion bands: Afon Sistema, Batala Bristol, Ilu Axe, Bristol Samba, Jamma De Samba (Bath) and ourselves. We were interspersed with sound system trucks, dance groups […]
We were asked to provide some birthday party drumming outside the SS Great Britain in Bristol docks on a Thursday morning. We love events like this and we had the bonus of a sunny morning. A worried looking official approached us just before we started drumming to ask if we […]
Here’s our summer samba performances. We’re quiet as always. Sun 5th May: Bristol 10K run Sun 19th May: South Glos Food and Drink Festival Sat 1st June: Sambafest Heerlen Sat 7th June: Peasedown party in the park and The Shakespeare Totterdown Sat 15th June: Sidcot Festival Sat 22nd June: private […]
New members are welcome to join us every week. From October we’re doing more to help brand new members. We are holding a samba drumming workshop specifically for potential new members on Wednesday 3rd October 2019 and following it with a 10 week course to teach the fundamentals. There is […]
Street party samba Bristol! On Saturday 8th June 2019 we played at two events. In the early afternoon we performed at Peasedown Party In The Park. It was time to set the controls for loud, having three surdo (bass drum) players playing three drums each plus several extra surdo players. […]
We hatched a plan to play at Sambafest Heerlen. This is an annual event in the Netherland. Our band size went up, down until we almost abandoned the idea and then back up. The result was a very bijoux band of 6. We’ve played with a band this size before […]