So last August we went to Singapore and had drumming sessions with the wonderful athletes from the Singapore Youth Olympic Games. The 8 days drumming sessions took place at the Youth Olympics Village. Not that we're flattering ourselves but the event was a huge success and we had blast! Just check these videos and see for yourself. Leave us comments, love/hate? You decide.
Led by David Fotheringham, the YOG community and Champions got together and rocked their beat!
"The end of our LAST community drumming session with Alex Popov et al - captured for posterity..! Amazing that Alex Popov is exactly twice the height of Zul but Zul's smile is 4 times bigger than anyone elses!! Well done to all the Asia Ability Youth Olympic Games crew - FANTASTIC atmosphere!" - David Powell, Asia Ability Managing Director.
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"On 31st December 2009, 50 radio 91.3 fans joined the Asia Ability team as they shook the Asian Civilizations Museum with the powerful rhythms of BEATSWORK samba. Part of radio 91.3's COUNTDOWN PARTY 2010, the event drew all ages and races for a brief but dynamic experience of diversity in harmony. Not only seen and heard by the gathered crowds on Singapore's riverside, the session was also broadcast live on the radio! An awesome way to kick-off the New Year with a BANG!!"
ASIA ABILITY'S BEATSWORK; INTERACTIVE DRUMMING AT SINGAPORE FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX 2009
Asia Ability rocked the Singapore Formula One night race last week with two Beatswork performances for the F1 crowds. It was a "public" event in that the 80 participants were rounded up right there and then from the thousands of F1 fans. We had a team of 15 Sambistas and "grabbers" as the Asia Ability crowd gatherers became quickly known. We were in good company as the performers lined up that weekend in Singapore included the Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, ZZ Top, Back Street Boys and Chakka Khan not bad support bands for our BEATSWORK!!Â
It was a huge hit with the crowd, created good press publicity in Singapore and a fun weekend for the Asia Ability team (with the added benefit of performer passes to the F1 race!!).
On May 1st 2009, Asia Ability took a group of 20 individuals from all walks of life, including DJs from Radio 91.3, and transformed them from musical zeros to heroes in 2 hours. With LITTLE or NO musical experience before this day, they performed for Singapore's President Nathan at the Istana Open House.
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On 7th June 2009, graduates of the AsiaWorks leadership program celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the first training in Singapore with a rousing BEATSWORK samba performance led by Asia Ability.
Recently Asia Ability introduced the leadership team from two Hilton hotels in Sarawak, Hilton Batang Ai Longhouse Resort and Hilton Kuching Hotel, to the unique teambuilding experience of learning samba rhythm and playing Beatswork together.
The Hilton Beatswork samba band played their finale performance in a totally unique venue - for the first time ever Beatswork was played in a Borneo longhouse!!
BEATSWORK AT THE 2014 SINGAPORE F1 GRAND PRIX: PISTON HEATS AND SAMBA BEATS!
In our rucksacks were – drums, drumsticks, towels for sweat and earplugs. Earplugs? What in the world would a group of highly capable, creative corporate teambuilding specialists need earplugs for? To protect our ears from the roar and scream of Formula 1 cars turbine engines tearing down the streets of Singapore of course!Â
That sweltering afternoon in the heart of this adrenaline thumping pit, 16 of Asia Ability’s finest Samba Maestros, Sambistas and Drummers alighted from the celebrity bus at the Esplanade and were quickly ushered through the growing crowd and into a heavily guarded side door where the artiste green room awaited us. This time we were invited by the Grand Prix body as roving artistes, to perform and engage the droves of ticket holders to join in the fun of our ever famous Beatswork programme, where we undertook to put a drum in the hands of every participant and transform them into the Singapore Grand Prix 2014 Samba Band, becoming the very heartbeat of the heated race on the tarmac! But Asia Ability was no stranger to the pole position as this was our third successive year as guest artistes and are now already a household name on the paddocks.
This huge, weekend-long event was slowly brewing into a mob as we listened to the hair-raising banshee screeches of the state of the art formula 1 cars taking off from the grid, warming their rubbers for the qualifying stage, as all 16 of us geared up and filed our way from the green room to the backstage area of the esplanade park stage. We were not the only stars to take the stage for this event as we were sharing performance space with the likes of the African Frititi Drummers, the Voca People and Ziggey Marley!
After 30 minutes of learning the beats and the breaks with the revolutionary Beatswork method, the samba band began playing their finale and shaking and swaying with the beat. The Toms and Surdos came in leading the beat and all the other instruments came in together, thumping as one, the rhythm resonating and echoing through the track and the entire city. Everyone was in focus and reveled when each individual instrument performed their solos, beaters swinging up in the air, a heavy din of hoots and whistles and at the very end of the 20 minute performance, they rumbled and grumbled and boomed on a final, singular heavy note, ending with everyone feeling high and inspired as a racer charging into battle, showing everyone what one can do when they work together as a pit crew does on the charged F1 pit-stops!
Not only did we do this once, but TWICE in the span of the weekend, again right before the Final race on Sunday and there was nothing we loved more than the look of surprise in our bands’ faces, uncovering their own hidden musical talents. 16 of us, elated and content with yet another successful programme were treated like rockstars as we had built such a strong bond with the participants that as we treated ourselves to the performances of Robbie Williams in the drenching rain, Ziggey Marley’s legendary reggae with a hot tropical sunset and Jennifer Lopez at the front of a steamy night time mosh-pit, we thought to ourselves that for a moment, we knew how it felt like to be rock stars…
And oh yeah, I forgot – Lewis Hamilton won the race.Â