Music Worldwide UK

Gary Newland provides a range of education and event management projects through Music Worldwide, a UK based multi-cultural music consultancy he started in 2002. He performs regularly with Gambian Kora player Sefo Kanuteh as well as other international musicians. 

Gary has been a lifelong drummer since learning to play the kit drums at the age of thirteen.  Gary was introduced to the West African Djembe drum in 1992 and soon started running weekly workshops in Colchester, Ipswich and Norwich. By the mid nineties he had built up a considerable following, released two teaching CD’s and in 1996, founded the well known East Anglia world music event  Drum Camp, a three day world music workshop based festival, now in its 22nd year.

A year later he co-founded The Karamba Experience, a music and dance holiday company which took students on two week courses to learn drumming and dance. These courses operated in countries such as Senegal, Cuba and India.

In 2000 he teamed up with Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD Festival through a new collaborative partnership WOMAD-Karamba World Music and Dance Holidays. Since then, he has been working continuously with the WOMAD festival team, providing touring artists and workshop leaders to the festival programme from Africa, Middle East, Latin America and Indian Sub-Continent. Since 2008 he has managed two of the venues at their annual Charlton Park festival - The World Rhythms and All Singing All Dancing Stages