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SECM's lead tutor, Chris Leeds, has recently become a Community Champion.
Chris Leeds
As part of the Scarman Trust 'Can Do' program, he has been awarded funding to run a music project in his local area: Erith in the London Borough of Bexley.

Workshops with young people in Erith (Bexley) start again on Tuesday October 14th - 5.30 - 6.30 pm - at Norvic House, Larner road.

- if you have children who would like to attend,
please contact us for more information -

They follow on from the first series of weekly workshops which took place during June and July, supported by Orbit Housing Association, and culminated in a performance at their 'Fun Day' on July 26th.

Summer Events and Festivals

We had a fantastic day at the Erith Riverside Festival on June 1st - over 100 people took part during the day-long non-stop workshop, we met some great new drummers both adults and children.

Click here to see more pics of the events.

We did a whole day of workshops at the Danson Festival in Bexley and ran workshops for a week of events run by Erith Tri-Forum for Youth. Further afield, we were at St. Mary's 'fun day' at Shoulder of Mutton Green in Welling, and at the newly opened Downham Health and Leisure Centre.

We recently had a great day at the HemiHelp Fun Day event at Englefield House near Reading.

NEXT UP -

  • The adult's group will be also be starting a new series of workshops at Belvedere Community Centre in October (dates to be confirmed). We will be aiming at a performance in December and doing some recording.

If you have been involved before, please contact us and enthuse! If not - join soon and get involved!

Meanwhile there are some tracks and a few pics in the member's area - links below

The first series of workshop sessions 'Drumming from Around the World' took place during February 2008, featuring instruments and styles of playing drums from four traditions - Peruvian, Punjabi, Indonesian and Balkan.
(Click here for more...)

There was a mix of activities including presentations from experts in the various traditions, hands on experience with authentic instruments, visits to groups working in the traditions and creative workshops and recording

To register your interest or for more information please phone Chris on 07866 139 692 or email us.

Member's Area - session extracts and pics

My music Tracks
some tracks are new - trying out new instruments, others feature 'mesh drums' - sort of semi-acoustic drums, or Alsesis D4 drum module played via MIDI pads (see www.drumsability.co.uk)

Sketch1 Udu Cahon Gtr


Sketch2 Udu Cahon Bell

Rif Raf - Mesh Kit

Goldsmith - D4 / TG55

Itskeri - Mesh Kit

Peruvian BandGamelanBalkan BandTaiko Group