Contacting Drumming Is Fun

Ways to make contact

Phone: 01234 743119 (home)
Email: enquiries@drummingisfun.co.uk

I'm often busy teaching during school hours and some evenings, so please leave a message along with your daytime+evening phone numbers and/or email address. My mobile phone is for emergencies only, and usually switched off while teaching/driving. It's best to organise bookings when I'm sat at my desk, with all the right information at my fingertips, not while running around in between teaching.

I'm based near Clophill in Bedfordshire (midway between Bedford and Luton), England, and can travel throughout Herts, Beds and Bucks (further afield if necessary).

If you're wanting to join one of my drumclasses, please say which group, where you live, have you played before, your level, and do you own a drum?

Workshop Enquiries: swift quote request

To save you time and avoid answerphone tennis, please include the following information in your workshop enquiry email/answerphone message so we can get back to you with an accurate quote of costs:

  1. Address and postcode of venue if known, otherwise potential town
  2. Type of event, e.g.:
  3. For regular weekly classes: Any impossible time or day of the week, and your preferred (half-)term.
    OR: For single day events: Your preferred date and time if known, otherwise potential day of the week and whether morning, afternoon, all-day or evening
  4. If for children, please indicate age range, since <11 year-olds need smaller drums
  5. Maximum number of people in each session, the duration of each session, and how many. (We'll bring enough drums for everyone to have a go.)
  6. Special requirements? e.g.:
    • introductory talk about West African culture
    • demo performance beforehand in assembly
    • a series of workshops building up to a performance
    • integrated African dance+drumming workshops - playing traditional rhythms to accompany the dance moves
    • rolling short taster drumming sessions (at a fete, for instance)
    • all-day carousels of rotating activities for up to four parallel classes

On the day, we will need:

  1. Parking space(s) close to the room/venue.
  2. Large space where we won't disturb people nearby with loud drumming.
  3. Circle of chairs (<11 year-olds need small Primary School chairs or low benches).
  4. If outdoors, we need a marquee or similar rain cover - drums must not get wet. A tiny 3m x 3m gazebo is no good, as there's not enough room and diagonal rain gets in the sides.


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