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Can a hollowed out piece of wood covered by a piece of stretched skin seriously make a difference to a corporation’s bottom line performance? Over 100of the world’s Top 500 companies seem to think so.

In fact, after more than 16,000 corporate events in 28 countries, Drum Cafe’s message has never been louder – or clearer. Businesses wishing to strike the right note can get closer to their goals with inspiration, motivation and a well-timed boost of harmony.

Something Drum Cafe provides. In abundance. With offices across Canada and the USA, and a multi-talented group of entertainers, the Drum Cafe in Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal mesmerizes audiences with its unique ability to transform any group into a percussive orchestra.

The Drum Cafe is a unique, hands-on approach (literally) to teambuilding, learning, and motivation that, simply put, draws the parallels between what it takes to make music and how that relates to working together in an organization, community, village, or “tribe” to achieve a unified goal!  

Drum Cafe is a program that is experienced and felt.  A musical background is not required as the transformation that occurs between the music as being 'wrong' and the music as being 'right' is easily understood by everyone despite their musical sensibilities. 

Because music is a universal language, it is able  transcends those barriers, traditional or otherwise, that tend to come between us professionally as well as personally. 

Rhythm is within all of us as a basic universal language that everyone understands, allowing dialogue among us at the most basic creative level.  It is a natural aspect of the human experience.  It is our heartbeat, it’s in our walk, our eating and sleeping patterns; the inhale/exhale of our breathing, the changing of the seasons, as well as the day and the night.

Drumming gives us a chance to express our own individual rhythm. 

In any Drum Cafe rhythm event, like-minded individuals come together and merge their rhythmical experience into one musical expression or “group vision”. The unity of that group and the relationship with itself is manifested by the quality of the sound/music produced, regardless of the group’s individual rhythmic or musical ability.

It is an interactive event - each individual is not a spectator, but a performer who is involved at the same level as his/her colleague, enforcing a cooperative, non-competitive relationship amongst the group.  Organizational charts are vertical or hierarchical, while drumming circles are ‘flat’.

The process of creating music, like business, has to be understood by everyone to succeed. Nothing brings to life the key elements of effective communication and teamwork as does a group of people attempting to create music together. Whether they know each other or not, whether they think they 'have rhythm' or not, the most important elements of communication and teamwork are emphasized and drawn out during our programs. 

When you play together at a Drum Cafe event, you make music, and to make discernible music you have to be sensitive to what those next to you are doing.  In this way drumming helps create a rhythm that bonds and builds a team. When communication 'happens', you know it and it feels right. When it's not happening, that too is apparent. Each member recognizes his/her own importance. It lets them find that their input, no matter how small, can make a marked difference to the success of the whole. In this way, everyone is valued for his or her diversity and uniqueness.  At the same time, when everyone is drumming together in unison, it is clear that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. 

The effect of the drumming, among other things, is a synchronization of energy, unity, and common vision/purpose. When you hear the rhythm of a group drumming and contribute your own beat, you are listening and playing….receptive and creative at the same time.  The Drum Cafe has done nearly 5,000 events in 19 countries over the past 10 years, and today, we bring this powerful method to Corporate America.

We bring the Drum Cafe to you

Offering the ultimate corporate experience, our team of facilitators, master drummers and world musicians will facilitate interactive or performance programs at your venue of choice.

For interactive programs, we bring a drum for every participant - from 5 to 5,000.

Then the magic begins. Led by our drummers, your team will find their rhythm. Hierarchies are broken down and communications barriers are dissolved. Tension dissipates and creativity emerges.

The Drum Cafe provides the tool for corporate empowerment and promotes passion, but above all, it flames our human need to unite. At a Drum Cafe event, there is no corporate hierarchy. Every one receives a drum, and is shown how to strike it. No special skills are required. Every team member is equal.

The sales manager relies on the marketing director, who relies on the human resources manager, to all hit their drums at precisely the right moment - and achieve the common goal. One perfectly synchronized sound! The effect is moving and motivating – and a lot of fun.

We provide each person with a drum, teach them how to play, how to listen to each other, and within 15 minutes your organization will be making music! Whether it is interactive team building, leadership programs, or pure entertainment for a general session kick off that you are after, The Drum Cafe delivers an unforgettable interactive or performance experience. 

At the Drum Cafe, we believe in building teams…one beat at a time...