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Calidoscopio Carnival Drummers

Calidoscopio Dancers - New Class starts soon!

A new carnival dance class starts on 20th March. Calidoscopio Carnival Dancers welcomes all dancers who want learn carnival dance moves, including samba reggae, funk, Afoxe and samba. You'll have fun, shake your stuff, and regular attenders can look forward to taking part in Derby Carnival, July 17th 2010. The venue for the class is Darley Dance, St. James Chambers (just off Derby Market Place). It's a hidden treasure of a ballroom tucked away in Derby City Centre. Classes will be on Saturdays from 12.30 to 2.00pm.

Confirmed dates are: March 20th, April 10th 17th and 24th, May 8th 15th and 22nd.

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Calidoscopio

  • Derby's carnival drumming group.
  • Open to anyone who wants to have a go at drumming.
  • No previous drumming experience necessary. Experienced drummers also welcome.
  • Informal relaxed atmosphere
  • Instruments are provided
  • Brazilian and fusion grooves
  • Opportunities to perform at local events and carnivals

Where do we meet?

Our venue is the Lonny Wilsoncroft Community Hall on Stepping Lane (just off Ashbourne Road).

When do we meet?

The group meets on Saturdays from 10am to 12.15pm. Anyone can come to the Saturday morning sessions. We will learn new grooves, polish and develop grooves that we already know, develop our technical ability on the instruments and develop our rhythmic skills.

Performance

In 2009 Calidoscopio performed at these events:

  • April: Derby 10K Run
  • June: Derby Goes Pink Fundraiser
  • July: Derby Goes Pink parade
  • July: Melbourne Carnival
  • July: Derby Carnival
  • August: Derby County Football Club
  • September: Derby Eco-Fest, Markeaton Park
  • December: Christmas Playground, Derby Market Place. With brass section and Cordao de Ouro Capoeira

If you would like to find out about booking us for your event, please contact us beth(at)kaleidoscope-music.org.uk. We also offer drumming workshops to schools, youth and community groups and corporate events. Please contact Beth on 01332 345 508 to find out more about what we can offer you.

Instruments

All instruments are provided by Kaleidoscope Community Music. We play these instruments: surdo, caixa, agogo, tamborim, repinique, timbalada, chekere, rocar and ganza.

Special Workshops

We regularly hold special workshops with expert teachers and teachers from other local Samba bands. We learn rhythms that we can practice at our regular sessions, as well improving technique and hearing more about the background to the music.

Our next workshop will take place on May 8th 2010 and our teacher will be Barak Shmool from F-IRE collective, London. Barak will help us with our technique, and show us how samba percussion is used to accompany a samba song.

Barak Schmool is the founder of the F-IRE Collective. Barak is responsible for the drumming group, Rhythms of the City (samba bateria) which arose from years of education work at City University, Trinity Laban, Goldsmiths College, Royal Academy of Music and numerous community projects.Barak has also been a long-time member of Django Bates' big band Delightful Precipice as well as playing with Bosco De Oliveira, Nana Tsiboe, Robert Mitchell and Hilaire Penda (sax/perc). His own bands; Timeline (Afro-rhythmic jazz), Meta Meta (Cuban Bata fusion) and Synergy (14-piece Big Band) present music often integrated with dance. He has a deep understanding of how people learn percussion as well as championing the integration of Bateria style percussion with song, dance and melodic music.

What Does it Cost?

Saturday morning sessions cost £5 full and £3 concession.
Whole Day workshops cost £15 full and £10 concession.
Half day workshops cost £7.50 full and £5 concession

We are hoping that some members of the regular group will work towards becoming group leaders. You will need to be a more experienced drummer to be considered for this. Please call Beth 01332 345 508 if you'd like to find out about being one of our trainee leaders.

We need to charge for each session because we have costs to cover, including venue hire, instrument storage, repair and replacement of instruments, fees for people who lead the drumming, publicity to make the group as inclusive as possible, and in the future costume for playing at carnival. If you want further information, please contact Beth de Lange.

There are a few bursaries available for people who can't afford to pay the fee regularly, who want to be a regular member of the gorup. If you think you qualify for this, you should attend at least two sessions as a paying member, and then if you decide you really want to commit to regular attendance, you should contact to Beth de Lange (see contact us page).

Who can join in?

The group is open to all. Children under 11 must be accompanied by an adult.

We look forward to drumming with you!

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Contact Us

Contact Jane to find out more
phone: 07813 553 102
email: drumming@kaleidoscope-music.org.uk

Video

We played at Belper Singing Day on February 27th 2010. Here are some clips of our show:

Here is some footage of Calidoscopio at Derby Carnival July 2009


And at Derby Eco-Fest September 2009:

Grooves

We play;

  • Samba Reggae
  • Samba Funk
  • Ijexa
  • Funky Timbabalada (taught to us by Nottingham School of Samba)
  • Maculele
  • 6/8 Fusion Groove groove "Warriors" (by Ravin Jayasuriya of One Voice Music)
  • and we are now learning to play a Batucada.

Photo Gallery

Have a look at our Flickr photos album here.

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