Cliff Patton, Stratford, Ontario 2009
History.
Cliff Patton established Primordial Percussion in the year 2001. The first few years of growth were dedicated to manufacturing hand drums for music and gift stores across Southern Ontario. Currently I have scaled my manufacturing business down and focus mainly on refinishing quality drum shells and repairs. 2009 will feature an exciting new line of ashiko and frame drums all made right here in Canada. The rest of my drums are now made in Ghana, West Africa by a small family run business. There are no other middlemen and all our sales directly help small business industry in this ThirdWorld country. I enjoy supporting Gabriel and his family. The quality and service he has offered me is the very best. You can see it in all of my Ghanian djembes. I also have some really great business relations out of Thailand and Indonesia who supply me with small percussion instruments and some of our drum shells.
In 2002 I established a community drumcircle in London, Ontario at the Theosophy Centre building. These sessions became very popular and soon outgrew that location, so a designated drumming room was rented at a Community Building on Dundas St. Along with family and friends I decorated, found chairs and stocked the place full of loaner drums. This drum circle eventually got tagged with the name "Temple Of Rhythm". Many many people attended those special magical sessions, sometimes having as many as 75 in the room at once. Many friendships and rhythms where initiated over the two years that the "Temple Of Rhythm" was opened.
In the year 2003 I started recieving requests for private drum circle events such as parties, nursing homes and schools. Since then I have hosted hundreds of drumcircles at places like staff parties, retreats, teambuilding events, schools, festivals, outdoor events and my speciality, nursing homes and special needs facilities. Drum circles have now become 75% of my business and continues to grow successfully.
In 2003 I started attending festivals across Ontario. At many of these festivals we would set-up a public drumcircle area beside our booth. We always offer many fine percussion and drum products for those wishing to get more involved. At this point we have hundreds of different products available. See my products page for a sample of some of these fine musical instruments and gift ideas.
I have now started a community drum circle in Stratford, Ontario. We currently run the program out of a really funky belly dance studio. Please join us when you can.
Peace and Light
Keep the Beat
Cliff Patton
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Some of the first ashiko drums ever made by Cliff Patton
of Primordial Percussion.
Cliff Patton working on a drum repair for a customer at Primordial Percussion's workshop.
A drum maker in Ghana working on a djembe for Primordial Percussion.
A drum maker in Thailand working on some drum shells for Primordial Percussion.
Cliff Patton at Corporate Teambuilding Event in London, Ontario.
Cliff with some of his wonderful friends and drummers at WDDS, Woodstock Ontario.
Cliff at the Primordial Percussion booth in London, Ontario.
Primordial Percussion booth summer of 2008.
Cliff Patton on the first night of the new Stratford Drumcircle.
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Djembe drums and various percussion equiptment is available for those who do not own their own drum. All types of hand drums and percussion instruments are welcome. It is recommended that all interested hand drummers use the Meet-Up website. This keeps everyone well informed of dates, cancellations and other information. Currently all these drum circle events are held on Saturday nights at Studio Oasis which is located at 291 Lorne Ave. East Stratford, Ontario. Just click above to become a member. Just click on the tab link above to meet your fellow drummers.
