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Shine Steel Band, Dartmouth Academy, Dartmouth, Devon, Uk

shine steel band, dartmouth academy, dartmouth, devon, uk

Dartmouth

Shine Steel Band is Dartmouth's very own Reggae steel band which is open to everyone aged 10 and upwards living in the local community of Dartmouth and the surrounding towns and villages. Shine is an all inclusive band meaning that it is open to people at all levels of musical aptitude and ability. It is a learning and performing experience that enables its members to explore and express their musical inner selves. We provide a unique musical platform that encourages our members to learn to read and play music in a relaxed atmosphere and to perform live in front of public audiences. Joining Shine you will grow in confidence as you perform and work together as a team whilst at the same time having fun. Shine performs at local events including, The Dartmouth Music Festival, Dartmouth Food Festival, Dartmouth Royal Regatta, local community engagements and other private engagements upon special request. Drummer on Stage Playing The Shine Steel Band is located at the Dartmouth Guildhall and offers local people a fantastic opportunity to enjoy a fun and fulfilling musical activity every Tuesday evening from 6.30pm - 9.30pm. During the rehearsal sessions you'll learn how to play and perform music using steel drums and percussion musical instruments. It is challenging, interesting, educational, rewarding and disciplined but most of all, it is fun! Members of Shine need to be motivated, dedicated and to have a desire to learn how to play music up to performance level.

Oak And Smoke Tannery

oak and smoke tannery

Moretonhampstead

Oak and Smoke Tannery is dedicated to Natural Tanning and Traditional Leatherwork. Oak and Smoke Tannery is made up of Jane Robertson and Jessie Watson Brown. We are two individuals with a passion for the wildness in nature and the skills that enable us to live closely to the earth. Through this journey… we discovered tanning! The tanning processes we practise use only natural ingredients – locally harvested tree barks such as Oak and Willow, oils and Smoke. We tan and sell leather, rawhide and unique leather handcrafts. The Heritage Crafts association has categorised tanning as ‘critically endangered’ as a craft because there are so few people practising it and even less teaching it. We intend to demystify the art of tanning by teaching simple methods, with simple tools. This is how we were taught and how we still practise. We learned tanning in Washington State in America and more recently from traditional tanners in Scandinavia.  We love the discovery of learning how different skins and processes work, and seeing the alchemical change that they go through during the tanning process. When we first returned from America lots of people were asking us to teach them tanning so we set up our first hide camp. The first year was small with a group of friends, and it was a booming success. Since then its grown and grown every year and now we run numerous camps every year, as well as guest teaching on other courses and offering individual tuition. All this as well as of course tanning leather ourselves on Dartmoor and in Mid Wales. We would love to see tanning become normal in peoples homes, as it once would have been. Most of the UK's domestic animal skins get exported to other countries or tanned in chemically intensive commercial tanneries, and most wild animal skins are wasted - its heart breaking! We have very high standards when it comes to ethics and the environment [https://www.oakandsmoketannery.co.uk/ethics]. All our skins are by-products of farming and hunting, otherwise discarded.

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