Corporate Entertainment and Team Building Programs Performed Around The World

The Drum Cafe’s interactive, hands-on programs are designed for general session entertainment, team building and experiential learning, relating music and rhythm, metaphorically to the dynamics of working together in an organization.

Drum Cafe brings power, passion and energy to any and every event.

The Drum Cafe concept, the oldest form of team building, is a unique hands-on application of African drums and percussion that is not only suited for team building, but for powerful general session kick offs, closings or awards banquets.

Interactive drumming is a unique, hands-on approach (literally) to team building, 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. The transformation that occurs between recognizing 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, Drum Cafe is able to transcend 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 rhythm.

In any interactive drumming or 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.

Drum Cafe 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.

Programs

The Drum Cafe offers drums and facilitation for groups between 5 and 5,000, and remains a favorite for small, intimate functions as well as massive events on a national and international level.

Interactive drumming works successfully for all types of people and all types of groups, as small as 5 people to as large as 5,000

You don’t need to be a music lover to appreciate the Drum Cafe. You do need to be prepared to have some fun!

We have united, uplifted and inspired our share of large, Fortune 500 companies, celebrities, politicians and most of all, the small to mid size organizations that make up the bulk of corporate America today.

The Drum Cafe’s clients include:

3M Worldwide, ABSA Bank, Adcock Ingram, Alexander Forbes, Allen & Buckeridge, Allergan, American Express, Anglo American, AON, AT&T, Aventis Pharmaceutical, Avis, Bang & Olfsen, Bank of America, Barclays, Bayer, Beacon, BMW, BOC, Boeringe, Bosch, British American Tobacco, Caltex, Canadian Tourism Commission, Canon Australia, Care International, Castrol, Citizens Bank, CNN, Coca Cola, Colgate Palmolive, Columbia Tri Star Films Australia, CommonWealth Bank, Creation Technologies, Crittendens, Cultural Diversity Awards, Daewoo, DDB – Paris, Deloitte & Touche, Delta Hotels, Deutsche Bank, Didata, EMI Records, Envoy, Erickson, Ernst Young / Cap Gemini, Eskom, First National Bank, Flight Centre, Fraser Alexander, Gallo Gold, Gemini Consulting,General Motors, Genop, Georgia Pacific, Global Technologies, Guinness, Henry Davis York Lawyers, Hewlett Packard, Homecomings Financial, Honeywell, Hope International, Housewares International, HRMA, Hunt Lascaris, Hyatt, IBM, Inside Edge, Insurance Line, Interchange, Interior Savings, International Multiple, Investec Bank, Ivanhoe Cambridge, JPMorgan Chase, JPR Architects, Justine Avon, Kaiser Permanente, Kelloggs, Kodak, KPMG, Laptop Technologies, Lend Lease Property Management, London Drugs, Markhams, McDonalds, Merril Lynch, Microsoft, M-Net, MultiChoice, Nandos, NedCor, Nestle, Netactive, Nike, Nissan, Novo Nordisk, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Ogilvy Africa, Old Mutual, Optus, Platform Computing, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Primedia, Rand Merchant Bank, Red Bull, Rennies Travel, SAACI, Samsung, Sanlam, Schwartzkopf, SecureWorks, Shell, Siemens, Sierra Systems, Siltek, Singapore Airlines, Skye Group, Smith & Nephew, SmithKline Beecham, Sols Legal, Sony Music, South African Airways, South African Breweries, Starbucks, Ster Kinekor, Symantec Australia, Telstra, The Cochrane Collection, TNT, Total, Toyota Motor Corporation Australia, True Alliance, Unilever, Universal Music, VW, Wella, World Presidents Organization and Yamanouchi Pharmaceuticals etc…

The Drum Café has performed for:

Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Nelson Mandela
Tony Blair
John Howard
Thabo Mbeki etc

Drum Cafe sessions are so much fun that clients keep booking them again and again the world over.

Conoco Phillips

September 2007 Aberdeen, Scotland
September 2007 - Singapoer
August 2007 - 60 people -St Louise Missouri
July 2007 - 50 people - Houston Texas
JUne 2007 - 60 people Calgary, Alberta.
June 2007 - 50 people - Tulsa Oklahoma
June 2007 - Bartlesville -
May 2007 Beijing, China
May 2007 - Perth Australia
April 2007 - 60 people Stavanger
April 2007 - 60 people - Long Beach - California
March 2007 - 50 people New York
Feburary 2007 - 60 people - Houston Texas
Feburary 2007 - Jakarta - India
January 2007 - 50 people - Houston Texas

Microsoft

Microsoft Global Summit - Prague - Sept 2007
MSN Finance Department - 65 People - June 2007 Seattle WA
Microsoft Customer Service Global Summit - 350 people - June 2007 -Seattle, WA- Debra Garcia
MSN Internet Security - May 2007 - Seattle
MSN Conference- 500 people - Feb 2007- Palm Desert
Brad Jelfs - Business Productivity Group – Microsoft: "We were invigorated by the experience, the hour flew by and we wished it would have gone on longer."
July 2004, MSN MGB 2004 Conference, Atlanta, 700 people
Paula Heath – Microsoft: “Thanks to the whole gang for doing such a great job - everyone had a blast at the event, largely due to the Drum Café. You guys were the stars of the day!”
June 2004, interactive drumming for Microsoft Tech-ed, Amsterdam. 6000 people
Microsoft Tech Ed., 6 000 people: “We wanted to incorporate an activity that would create a feeling of community. The sound of everyone drumming together was phenomenal, and the atmosphere in the hall was electric. This was a powerful way to open the event.”
June 2003, team-build for 10 people

Deloitte & Touche

Deloitte Management Services LP - August 2007 - 150 people Niagra Canada
Deloitte Management Services LP - July 2007 - 220 people Toronto Canada
April 2007 - 150 people Seattle WA
June 2005, drumming for a mixed group (from clerks to managers and partners) on a fun night out to follow-up work-related issues
May 2005, management strategy session focusing on transformation, 70 people
November 2004, team-build and stress relief for forensic and dispute services before end of year
July 2004, D & T Service Excellence Awards Dinner. Drumming to celebrate the achievements of people getting awards
September 2003, boomwhacking for 110 people
June 2003, team-building and entertainment for a promotion, 95 people
Deloitte and Touche: “Excellent!”
February 2003, boomwhacking for team-building and entertainment, 150 people
Deloitte and Touche: “One of the best sessions ever.”

BP

BP - Off site retreat for 50 people - Semiahmoo Resort - WA
BP - Global Exploration Conference - 500 People, Vancouver BC
October 2005, team-building for 90 people, Sun City
BP: “The highlight of the weekend’
BP: "The Drum Cafe was perfect!! Woke us all up and got us invigorated for the day ahead. It was amazing how a "team" can work together without any verbal communication! Thanks to everyone; I'll certainly recommend you in the future!"
July 2005, team-building during a training session and leadership event, 36 people
February 2005, VP International, Senior Level Meeting, Orlando, Florida, 170 people
March 2005, BP Fuels Safety, 30 people
January 2005, senior level leadership course, senior managers from Egypt, Pakistan, Angola, Dubai and South Africa attending course, fun session
November 2004, run their change management program, BP execs, mostly men, and few foreign reps, objective was to build team spirit and bond
September 2004, team-building for a training day on a leadership program, 30 people
July 2004, team-building for 43 people
BP: “Wonderful – client loved it.”
April 2004, team-build for 70 people
March 2004, team-building for 26 people
February 2004, team-build for BP Aviation, 60 people
November 2003, team-building for senior level staff, 40 people.
September 2003, team-building for 40 people
August 2003, team-building for 35 people
June 2003, team-build and entertainment for senior management
BP: “Superb event.”
June 2003 – team-build for a promotion BP: “Absolutely phenomenal.”
February 2003, drumming for 200 men from all over Africa (from MDs to the drivers), build team spirit and end on high note

KPMG

November 2005, year-end function, 180 people
December 2004, interactive drumming for 22 people at a year-end function!
March 2004, team-building for KPMG Airline management and staff
February 2004- 2006, National Induction Program, 500 people
November 2003, team-building for the financial department, 120 people
November 2003, drumming on an inspirational weekend as a way of saying thank you for a successful merger.
October 2003, drumming with the directors of KPMG
KPMG: “Absolutely great!”
2002, team-build for all levels, 25 people
June 2002, drumming for team-building and fun for 1st year article clerks, 40 people
November 2001, year-end function for Information Risk management department, 120 people

BMW

December 2005, year-end, 90 people
BMW: "We can't wait for the next drumming session."
BMW: “Without a doubt a wonderful way to bring people together."
March 2005, team-build for 40 people
2004, Interactive clapping at BMW’s Family Day, Gold Reef City, 12 000 people
November 2004, team-build for delegates from around the world
May 2004, implementation of quality management program, 65 people.
April 2004, international delegates and top management of BMW, end off conference on high note, 55 people
January 2004, Quality management program launch, successful small prize-giving, fun and thank you session, 120 people
October 2003, start of BMW’s quality management assurance program, team-build and break barriers, 120 people
BMW: “Marvelous!”
August 2003, drumming to impress CEO of BMW with African experience, Drum Café trained 50 staff members to play simple rhythm, drum rolls, and drum with CEO before he departed.
BMW: “Absolutely brilliant.”
March 2003, celebrate new premises, build spirit and have fun, 65 people
March 2003, drumming for senior managers from BMW worldwide, team-build, 65 people
March 2003, drumming to launch quality management initiative, from MDs to mechanics, 55 people,
BMW: “Beautiful”
November 2002, closing session for the day’s conferencing for senior managers of BMW worldwide, stress relief and team-build, 60 people
BMW: “Brilliant!”
September 2002, entertainment for 150 people, Sandton Square, 150 people
March 2002, drumming at an international conference, 66 people