About palace drum clinic
The Palace Drum Clinic (PDC) was born from the popular UK National Drum Fair (NDF) which ran from 2002-2015. After 14 annual, high profile industry-led Drum Fair events, the NDF decided to continue to offer an education programme for the Midlands drumming community.
As a result, the Palace Drum Clinic was launched in May 2017 at the Palace Theatre, Redditch.
Matthew Green, PDC’s founder, has been a professional percussionist and teacher for 22 years which enables PDC to attract a high calibre of musicians and featured artists. To date PDC has featured some of the UK’s best percussionists including; Pete Lockett, Dougie Wright and Neal Wilkinson.
Since 2017, PDC has run 19 sessions, welcomed 18 guest artists, 6 showcase players, sold over 400 tickets, an average of 20 at each session to all ages, sexes and backgrounds and given away over £1000 of free drumming gear from sponsors such as Liberty Drums and Remo.
Why you’ll love Palace Drum Clinic
Informative, entertaining and inspirational. There is always something to learn and of interest, whether you are a beginner or, like myself, a professional drummer of over 50 years.
Henry Spinetti
Drumming LegendA chance for me to learn, be inspired by others and to ask people who are doing what I want to do as a career important questions for my own musical growth.
Ben Roberts
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Lloyd Ryan
On Lloyd’s return to the Palace Drum Clinic, he will be presenting his new event called ‘Precious Times’.
David Phillips
David Phillips will be talking about the stories behind all the pictures he has taken from his two books “From the Riser’ and ‘A Drummers Perspective’.
Palace Drum Camp 2021
The Palace Drum Camp is a 3 day non-residential drumming event over a weekend in February 2021 held in the home town of John Bonham, Redditch.