A recent Royal Society for Blind Children (RSBC) percussion workshop at their Life Without Limits centre in London launched a new collaboration between RSBC, Percussion Play and The Amber Trust to make outdoor musical instruments even more accessible to young blind and partially sighted people.

The percussion workshop was lead by Amber Music Trust Practitioner Gennie Joy who guided children and their families in playing Percussion Play’s Babel Drums, Cyclone, Cavatina, Tubular Bells and much more.   

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey caught up with Jody Ashfield, Percussion Play’s Chief Executive and Sue Sharp Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Blind Children to find out more about how the collaboration between the three organisations came about and how the recent percussion workshop in London went too. 

The interview starts and ends with George a young visually impaired boy playing one of the Percussion Play’s instruments at the RSBC workshop. 

To find out more about the Royal Society for Blind children, the percussion workshop and more about the collaboration between RSBC, Percussion Play and the Amber Trust do visit the RSBC website - https://www.rsbc.org.uk 

And for more about percussion Play do visit their website - https://www.percussionplay.com/

Image shows a small child wearing glasses playing brightly coloured tubular bells with a red beater (image provided by The Royal Society for Blind Children)