AIS Middle School Samba Band Performance
AIS Middle School Samba Band |
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• June 2021
The symbolism of a mask can be interpreted in many different ways, but for some it means keeping things hidden, inaccessible, and isolated. This translates to the recent experience of the AIS Middle School Samba Band, as an isolated existence caused by lockdown resulted in the inaccessibility to communal music-making. And yet now - as the band comes together in more favourable circumstances - these limitations are removed and the collaborative force of drumming can be heard pulsing through the AIS campus once more. In the words of renowned percussionist, Dame Evelyn Glennie, ensembles such as the MS Samba Band “make a difference to children’s lives. They show the power of the drum, and how this can be the glue that holds one person to another”.