Drumbeat-Heartbeat

Do you want to share our common dream for London 2012?I envisage a percussion festival of such massive proportions, outstanding high quality and a unprecendented musical vibrancy that the programmers of artistic events for the London Olympics should be calling us and saying,

” Will you perform for the audiences at the Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies in 2012?”

At that stage I would like to talk with you and all other partners, collaborators and working groups that are being set up as of NOW and respond,” Yes, we will perform for your audiences, but it is for the world and not just London!” 

They will be setting us free! Our discipline, hard work and creative diversity will have produced a series of monumental dance sequences and musical repertoires that will have given us the power through shared ownership of work that is starting now.

If you share this dream then you will also know that good percussion and dance events are created by ambitious visionaries with a single common aim - how to enthral the audiences, leave them so spectacularly moved that they are exceptionally enriched by our musical and dance creations, that our drums will be playing the language of the heartbeat, the first and the original percussion known to us all.

Just as any successful performance starts with slow, modest and uncharted musical renderings, this festival will also commence with people who are coming together to share a common aim but have no predetermined mental road maps. Our musical journeys will be our shared enjoyment until we discover our inner talents and potential for excellence through Heartbeat. We will then create and bind a new experience. Our energy and investment will be constrained, if not defined, by just two forces - trust and respect for our creative backgrounds. If you are still reading this then consider yourself a recruit, a partner, a mentor and listener who will make others ‘listen’ with delight when we play our music in 2012.

Heartbeat is being developed as a local festival for Barking and Newham before it can run and be counted as an international festival of percussion for the Olympics! This web-log is one of the many means for communicating this dream.