Event Types
Entertainment for all occasions
African Drumming & Dance Group (Essence of Africa)
The Essence of Africa is an African music and dance group who specialise in both contemporary and traditional African Music especially from East Africa.
Whether it’s a Wedding, Party, Festival, Carnivals, Corporate Event or Gala Ball the group deliver a performance suitable for everyone in the audience.
Their music, energetic dancing and colourful costumes will get both young and old dancing and clapping to a fusion of African rhythms, Soca, Khalimba, Lingala, Soukous, Zomba and drumming or storytelling acts. All acts are exclusively delivered in African Languages. They aim to entertain your event in style.
Some of the traditional instruments they use are Adungu (Ugandan harp), Akogo (Thumb piano), Amadinda (Xylophones), Ngoma (drums), Endigidi (tube fiddle) and many more. Most of their songs, dances and drumming derive from Africa, Uganda particularly and the artists identify and produce their themes of performances through showcases showing their ability based on their past and personal experience, even though other techniques are incorporated.
STANDARD LENGTH OF PERFORMANCE
We suggest a performance format as below:
- To do 1 x 30 minutes performance or 2 x 15 minutes sets
- Performance of African Drum and Dance Showcase
- Audience Participation towards the end to show the guests some African Dance moves.
The group would bring along some spare dancing costumes (raphia skirts) to hand out to guests to try out for their fun interaction/participation.
AFRICAN WORKSHOPS
Looking for something a bit different for your team-building day, schools and other events, we can offer any kind of dance class or workshop to entertain you and your colleagues.
- Our most popular workshops are from 1 to 4 hours or in some cases a whole day.
- African Dance Workshops
- African Drumming Workshops
- African Singing
- Story Telling Workshop
- African Musical Workshops