UK National Drum Fair Europe’s Biggest and Best Custom & Vintage Drum Show The National Drum Fair (NDF) is currently an annual event organised, promoted and managed by drummers for drummers to provide an opportunity for the display, promotion, trading of drums, associated products/items and drumming skills to be available to the drummers and potential drummers of the UK and beyond. It is a non-profit organisation and seeks to be self-funding. The 12th UK National Drum Fair will take place in the last weekend of September on 27th and 28th 2014, at Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre, Alcester Road South, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 6ER. We have a very special programme of events, which includes 60+ stalls of custom and vintage drums, cymbals and accessories with displays from our own Vintage Vault. This year’s show is dedicated to Ringo Starr. It is 50 years since the Beatles played on the Ed Sillivan show and breaking America. Ringo did more for Ludwig Drum Company than people realised. There will be a special exhibit on the vintage vault to celebrate this occasion. A great line up of clinics for this year and again have been supported by Birmingham Conservatoire Jazz Dept. Drummerbuzz will be sponsoring the free workshop in the Annex, with Malcolm Garrett and Pete Cater. Drummerbuzz have been responsible for running worshops, clinics and drum sheds and we are partnering up with them to provide these throughout the year. If you are interested in coming along to one of the clinics/workshops, then Drummerbuzz will be there to take your details and keep you informed of the forthcoming events. Again these are going to be very special, as people will get a chance to play along side great drummers on a practice pad. You just need to bring your own sticks! The Weekend will go as follows: Saturday 10:00 Doors Open 12:00 Billy Weir-Tony Levin Prize Winner with Birmingham Conservatoire tutors Jean Toussaint (Tenor Sax) and Arnie Somogyi (String Bass) 13:00 Tuning Clinic in the Annex with Jeff Davenport from Remo 14:00 Clinic – Robert Brian-UK session drummer played with: Simple Minds, Siouxsie Sioux, Miles Kanes, Peter Gabrial 15:00 Free Workshop in the Annex with Pete Cater 16:00 Raffle Sunday 10:00 Doors Open 12:00 Tuning Clinic in the Annex with Jeff Davenport from Remo 13:00 Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra Directed by John Ruddick MBE 14:30 Free Workshop in the Annex with Malcolm Garrett 15:30 Raffle Again this will be a great year for the raffle, so make sure you buy a ticket from the raffle stall. Hats of to Led Zepplin, the UK’s Top Tribute act, will be performing at the O2 Academy, Birmingham on the 28th September 2014 and when you purchase your entrance ticket to the NDF, you will be given a 2-4-1 ticket code. With some new faces as well as old friends, prizes, workshops and special guests this is going to be a great year, so don’t forget to put one of the drumming highlights of the year in your diary, as it’s an occasion not to be missed! Open to the public both days from 10am until 5pm. Admission £10 Saturday, £8 Sunday or £16 weekend ticket. Pay on the door. For more information please go to ukdrumfair or visit facebook/ukdrumfair
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 15:40:48 +0000
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