27.01.10
WMC Rhythms
During the busy crowds of a Thursday lunchtime in Cardiff
Bay last week, CMW were at the Wales Millennium Centre holding an open workshop,
giving theatre goers and the general public a chance to join in some high noon
music making activity!
Amongst the throngs of matinee goers the group took up
African drums, percussion instruments and began to make rhythmic music,
encircling the main space of the WMC foyer.
Some passers by stopped and looked on with curiosity while
others felt compelled to join in the music making and grabbed a cow bell or a
drum.
Tutor Neil lead the sessions with call and response
activities, starting off with basic rhythms while participants built their
confidence, before giving everyone the chance to ‘go solo’ and showcase a new
rhythm of their own.
A really diverse group of people joined in the sessions with
everyone from school children to older people taking part all at once. CMW
Project Officer Chris Dawson said
‘‘There was an audience sitting and waiting for a
performance to begin, but it soon became those same people who took up the
instruments and joined in, becoming the performers themselves. This
demonstrates just how accessible and enjoyable an activity this is. We had a
big audience and there was a real buzz to the atmosphere’’
