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High Peak Samba are performing again!

We are   providing drumming workshops, open to everybody. Practice sessions on the last Thursday of each month, 7-9 pm, Railway, Whaley Bridge, £5 per session.

See our Facebook page for more info!

Now that the hectic summer gig season is over, it's time to work on new pieces and brush up on old tunes and moves.

It's a great time to join if you want to have a go at playing samba.

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Following the publication of the National Plan for Music Education, county music services and other organisations are busy preparing bids to apply to be Music Hubs.

What’s this got to do with Samba I hear you ask?

Well, if you deliver workshops in schools then the answer is LOTS. Let me explain. Hubs will replace music services from September 2012

Here are the core roles of hubs

Welcome to the UK Centre for Carnival Arts (UKCCA) survey, part of a research programme being carried out by 509 Arts for UKCCA. The survey is designed to build a picture of the types of organisations and individual practitioners directly involved in carnival and how they are managed and funded.

Please fill in this short survey if you are:

- an organisation responsible for the production or management of a specific carnival

- a mas band or any kind of carnival music, costume or performance group

- a creative organisation that regularly contributes or participates in one or more carnivals

- a carnival learning or training organisation

- an artist or sole trader creatively involved in carnival

Embaixadores da Alegria - first and only samba school for the disabled and their families, friends and carers