Link to Mumbai Mirror

All you bosses out there, frustrated because you aren't getting your colleagues to work as a team? Ever wanted to drum the concept of teamwork into their heads? Do just that, with the South African team builders, Drum Café. Using djembes, they get teams to bond as they make music together. 

    Drum Café was also part of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, but this was just a performance. Unfortunately, Tore, who is heading Drum Café in India, missed out on it because he was still setting up in India. He says, "We came down to India just three months ago. So we still aren't as busy as we are supposed to be." 

    So how do African drums help team building? "When you have a hundred people hitting the drums at the same time, you have a sense of achievement once you make music. We also break the people up into groups. Each group plays a different sound and they all come together in the end," explains Tore. 

    This is exactly what they have been doing at workshops at Bootleggers Pub in Colaba every week. Drum Café provides drums and other percussion instruments to participants. The workshop is followed by a livewire performance where people can dance and let their hair down. 

    They also conducted a workshop at Umang. The happiness on the faces of the kids as they crazily hit the djembes in unison was a sight to watch.