The Ring of Rhythm

The Ring Of Rhythm - A Percussive Music and Movement, Tribal Experience.

For this totally engaging workshop Andy has your students seated around him. The creative process starts with a simple repetitive beat that is almost immediately added to with another clap or click. Before long ums, ahhs, cries and calls are added into and across this soundscape and students learn and gain confidence as they create their own sound. With Andy's direction and encouragement students are amazed by the group sound they are creating and experience the sheer joy and exhilaration of creating primal music as a tribe.

The benefits and self-satisfaction gained from working together as a group soon become evident to all. From a simple beat, Andy guides your students through the process of layering up the sounds by adding Rhythmic Chants - Body Percussion - Vocalized Sounds and Words to produce their own, truly original Tribal Sound.

Throughout this memorable process Andy Jones' cheeky boyish sense of fun is ever present and there's plenty of fun and laughter to be had.

Andy Jones.

A Children‘s Author with an Electric Guitar and one heck of a Voice, Andy Jones has been Entertaining and Educating students for over 20 years. Whether he is delivering one of his own witty Poems or Raps, or he is inspiring students to create their own Rhyming Raps and to sing them back to him, Andy is a combination of energy and comedy who keeps his preps to year 6 audiences totally engaged from beginning to end of his shows. And there are a number of shows to choose from - What's The Joke, Rap Rhyme and Rocking Poetry and of course this one The Ring of Rhythm.

As a singer/songwriter Andy with his band The Funky Monkeys has recorded with ABC Music, EMI, Festival Records and PolyGram. As an Author he has been published by HarperCollins Publishers and ABC Books.

In a career spanning across many years Andy has continuously written, recorded, published and performed his work to the audience its intended for. In every state capital in Australia and from huge crowds celebrating New Year's Eve on the shore of Sydney Harbour to libraries in far north Queensland, Andy has the appropriate energy to get any audience totally engaged.

Andy has written books for 6 year olds to young teenagers including 'The Adventures of Scooterboy and Skatergirl', 'The Awesome Book of Rap, Rhyme and Putrid Poetry' and his 'Hot Jokes for Cool Kids' series of books alone has sold over one and a half million copies world-wide.