Drum Cafe Welcomes 1000 Delegates at Sun City

A TED Talk with Jo-Ann Radus

Jo-Ann Radus has motivated and inspired hundreds of thousands of people globally with her insight and passion for effective communication, diversity and collaboration. Her love of music as a universal language led her to partner with the South Africa-based company Drum Café almost 20 years ago. Using interactive drumming and rhythmic exercises she is able to…

Corporate

TEDx Delft – Creating Synergy Through Sound

Experience the unifying power of the West African Djembe Drum through an amazing facilitation done by Patrick Tromp for TEDxDelft

Fundraisers

Cancer Awareness with Revlon on the Cancervive Tour

REVLON has for a number of years supported the initiative of a group of passionate breast cancer survivors who embraced other “shy” Cancers and whose main aim it is to educate, create awareness that early detection can save lives and spread the message of hope. Fundraisers and educational programs are hosted during the year and…

Charity / Global News

Beating Cancer through Drumming

During their trip to South Africa, Chaiyanu an association that provides hope to children that are diagnosed with cancer, contacted Drum Cafe to provide them with a true African cultural experience. The girls naturally fell into rhythm and spontaneously burst into song, extracting the joy out of each beat with a sense of tremendous inspiration…

Inspiring at Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy

Drum Cafe was invited to perform at Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy and facilitate an interactive drumming experience to inspire unity between students at their annual international conference. Drumming was the perfect choice because rhythm naturally leads to a sense of unity, an experience that we are all connected. This gives us a feeling of extreme…

Launching the “Climate Reality Project” with Al Gore

Former US Vice-President and climate change lobbyist Al Gore has launched the African branch of the Climate Reality Project, which aims to mobilise individuals and organisations to implement climate change mitigation measures and “spread the truth” of climate change to communities on the continent. Addressing over 700 delegates at a three-day Climate Reality Project workshop,…

Drum Cafe, The Leaders of Corporate Invigoration at PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers was in for a delight as Drum Cafe surprised them with an explosive interactive drumming and melodic boomwhacker session. The session was extraordinarily special as this was no normal interactive, the whole group was split into seven groups and everyone had to perform their own piece which they rehearsed separately. Integrating traditional dancing, drumming…

Natalie Spiro on Tedx FidiWomen Explaining Ubuntu

“Umunto Ngumuntu ngabantu” “I am through others.” This is the concept of Ubuntu – how each person is made whole by their interactions with the people around them. It’s an ancient believe that runs deep in all the tribes of Africa, as it binds together the collective life-force of each tribal member. I hadn’t spoken…

Studies Prove that Rhythm helps your Language Skills

“We know that moving to a steady beat is a fundamental skill not only for music performance but one that has been linked to language skills,” said Nina Kraus, of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory at Northwestern University in Illinois. In order to understand the biological basis of rhythmic ability, the team measured the brainwaves of…

Drumming with Greenpeace

Following a global campaign, Drum Cafe with Greenpeace, protested in Johannesburg for the release of the 30 activists being held by the Russian authorities on Saturday. Drum Cafe showed their support by providing everybody with a percussion instrument as well as a unifying drum circle experience. Drumming has always been affiliated with “green” causes and…

TEDx Cibeles with Brett Schlesinger

Have you taken notice of how you feel after doing an interactive music session? Do you notice the difference to how you felt before the session? Are you more focussed, present, relaxed, and energised? It’s this phenomenon that I am going to talk to you about, and what its relevance is to modern life both psychologically and…