The girls sit down to drum.
- This was where we left them. Still drumming, still dancing…
Well, here I was at the “home from home” that is Trench Town Reading Centre – just over the road from the Trench Town Cultural Yard, where Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and others spent their formative years.
And the drums reverberated from walls to ceiling and back again in the Centre’s community classroom. A sharp crack, a deep roar, a rumbling. The tight midday air tingled. Thunder rumbled further uptown.
We could hear the children’s voices faintly underneath. They were sitting on the floor.
Drumming session at Trench Town Reading Centre – over fifty children participated.
Drummers at Trench Town Reading Centre
Later they stood. Later they drummed. Later they sang. Later they danced…
The power of the African drum.
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Thank you Emma, wonderfully put
& Kingston Drummers…’happiness is a warm drum’ (Emma)…
Kingston Drummers have always been brilliant. They used to play at the Embassy’s Black History Month concerts every year. Oh yeah, I think that’s an original quote from me! Just about to post a few photos from today on the Facebook page…
And those drums do talk as they say back home..
Oh yes, they talk, and they say different things to different people. You should have seen some of the faces of the children – they were listening so intently.