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Afro-Eire is a new Irish based collective based on years of teaching and performance experience.
Created by Dublin born percussionist Paul McElhatton out of the need to create an outlet for traditional African drumming and dance in Ireland.
Paul has studied extensively in West Africa, learning music of the Malinke, Sousou, Dioula and Bambara Ethnics. Over this time he studied the Dunun and Djembe drums, the Kamele N'goni harp and the Balafon (African xylophone).
Since 2003 Paul has performed as far a field as Mexico and all over Ireland including several performances in the Dun Laoghaire Festival of World cultures, The Electric picnic and Africa Day.
As a teacher he has been running his own school in Temple bar for two years and has been delivering workshops to schools, community groups and Businesses all over Ireland and abroad.
Afro-Eire aim to provide the highest level of traditional and modern African music and dance in our performances and workshops. Our performers are long time students of music and are adept in many styles.
With several years of ongoing workshops in Dublin we are creating a new level of traditional drumming never before seen in Ireland.
