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Community Music Making at The NAMM Show

Community Music Making at The NAMM Show

NAMM Show attendees are invited to participate in drum and ukulele circles for first-time and seasoned music makers alike. Instruments are provided for all. These only-at-The NAMM Show music-making experiences are truly a celebration of community!

“Drumming is not about filling up space with notes. It’s really about making space for other people’s creativity,” Arthur Hull, Drum Circle Facilitator

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Community Spotlight

The NAMM GenNext experience was an incredibly motivating, empowering, and inspiring activity as a young professional in the music industry.

- Alex Alberti, College Music Student, UNC Greensboro

Did you know?

"When we sing or create music, we use all the parts of the brain: left, right, front, and back. All these parts collaborate. That is very unique! Music is complex; that is, it uses so many aspects of a person's being." Hanne Deneire, composer.

Quoted in "Appreciating Music as a Foundational Aspect of Creativity" by Joanne Foster. Feb. 3, 2018

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