African Drum Services

Info:  Is intended to provide resources for all things related to West African drumming. We have a wide selection of African drums and percussion to choose from, including some of the best professional quality djembes available anywhere. We also offer nationwide African drumming workshops at all levels and African drumming performance for any occasion. High quality repairs and re-skinning for most types of African drum are carried out by our experienced drum maker.

Cumara Music

Info:  This is the musical home of Lake District composer, Jamie Sims. All of Jamie's music gathers inspiration from the breathtaking beauty of the surrounding landscape of his home. Jamie's work is currently featured in 'Wainwright Country' with Fred Talbot and Eric Robson airing on Discovery Realtime. You can listen to samples of his music, view some of the magical images of his surroundings and read about the stories that inspired the music.

Jamie also composes Royalty Free music for use in your own projects. They can be used as background to your web site, slideshows or video projects. They are especially suitable for holistic or alternative therapists, as background during treatment, or as background to voiceover, coaching or therapy CDs.

Goldcoast Drums

Info:  We are dedicated to selling professionally made authentic djembe drums from West Africa, djembe drum accessories, hand percussion and other great African musical instruments. Goldcoast Drums are djembe drum specialists, with hundreds of djembe drums of all shapes and sizes, African drums, drum bags, drum skins and other African instruments in stock.

My supplier is Anthony Apobbi, a professional drum maker and musician in Accra, Ghana. His family have a steep tradition of making djembe drums and other percussion items and take great pride in their work. He checks out all the instruments before they are sent out and won't send anything to us that does not meet his professional standards. All the djembe drums sold adhere to fair trade principles. Everything sold on this site is made using wood from Managed Forests (for every tree cut at least another is planted).

Kiskadee

Info:  Born in England with very little eyesight, Kiskadee, a British Trinidadian, grew up in an area where she was part of a tiny West Indian minority. Her father was one of the first steel drum makers in Trinidad and her mother came to England from Guyana to study violin at the Royal Academy of Music. Gifted with unusual musical abilities (including perfect pitch), Kiskadee learned piano and started singing at the age of two. After gaining an Honours Degree in French and English and then working for the BBC for several years, Kiskadee entered the music industry full time as a singer / songwriter, pan player, producer and arranger.

Ethical Music is our other “baby”. We bring together talented artists from around the globe who the world would otherwise overlook. Musicians, songwriters, singers, poets, calligraphers, photographers, sculptors -- all feel passionate about their art and see it as their calling in life. There are incredible artists in this world who get overlooked simply because they either don’t have the right look, don’t speak or sing in the right language, have a disability, are too old, who’s art doesn’t fit the marketing criteria of the industry etc. If they are genuinely talented, they deserve to earn a decent living with their art. This is what we are about. In short, we are not a charity. As wonderful as charity is, we believe giving people a chance to earn an honest living is more important to the artists, their dignity and all of us who enjoy their art. That’s Ethical Music.

mafundi crafts

Info:  We are passionately committed to bringing you the finest arts and crafts from around the world, while ensuring fair payment for talented craftspeople and their families through ethical trading. Our diverse range of more than 500 quality products, from our extensive range of percussion instruments and decorative masks and wall hangings to Zulu baskets and great gift ideas, are all hand-made from materials such as African olive wood, thuya root, soapstone, coconut wood, rattan, fused glass and banana fibre. We also have many items available that have been produced from both recycled and sustainable sources.

Mafundi Crafts has been established with the intention of providing an opportunity to purchase high quality, ethically produced arts and crafts from the developing world. We are a family business, based in the city of Bath in the South West of England, and operate predominantely as an e-commerce outlet. We have carefully assembled our range of products from accredited Fair Trade organizations in areas such as Bali, Chile, Kenya, Peru and South Africa.

Orchid Trading

Info:  We are a fair-trade company that has been established for 6 years and has been importing handcrafted musical instruments, arts and crafts from Indonesia with great success. We offer products of a very high quality with competitive prices. These products are very well received by the public, due to the time and effort that we spend in regularly visiting and building relationships with our suppliers in Indonesia. All of our products are hand checked before packing and shipping to the UK. Orchid Trading only sources products from local artists, communities and craftsmen. We take an active interest in the local community and economy of these craftsmen and we strive to understand the issues that affect the craftsmen's lives.

Panther Music

Info:  Our range of percussion instruments include maracas, djembes, kalimbas, didgeridoos, rainsticks, woodwind and much more. Our supplier is a member of the British Fair Trade Association. They visit the instrument producers at least once a year to inspect production conditions and to maintain personal relationships with the craftsmen. They also require that all raw materials are sustainable and legal. No poached or endangered woods are to be used. Our percussion instruments are ideal for recording musicians looking for unique sounds. They provide an excellent learning resource for children, and make the ideal gift for anyone who is musically minded.

The Art of Music

Info:  We specialise in excellent-quality music engraving and type setting, both of music and of text. Since 1992, using the best tools available, we have produced a range of publications that have been acclaimed not only by their commissioning writers but also in the national press. We have typeset thousands of pages (or several kilogrammes weight) using Score and InDesign.

Based in Dunblane, Scotland, The Art of Music was founded by Alistair Warwick in 1992 in order to provide high-quality music and text typesetting. This soon extended to include practical and reflective skills training for musicians, especially those who work in worship and other music of the Church.