Singer, drummer, facilitator, and trainer specialising in the power of music to connect, communicate, and transform. She believes that everyone can make music, and her work spans artistic, community, health and wellbeing settings, from mental health groups to corporate training, prisons, schools, and dementia care.
Jane has trained in circle singing with Bobby McFerrin and in improvisation with Grammy-winning cellist David Darling. Drawing on these influences, she leads Vocal Flow, a popular course for improvising singers in Glasgow, and regularly facilitates circle singing, drumming and vocal improvisation events across Scotland and around the world. Her workshops invite participants to step into flow, trust their voices, and discover the joy of creating music spontaneously with others.
In 2011 she was awarded a PhD in musical interaction, highlighting the effects and mechanisms of group music-making on human wellbeing. Since then, she has shared her expertise with musicians, music therapists, educators, trainers, arts practitioners, occupational therapists, and healthcare staff from Bathgate to Bangalore.
At the heart of Jane’s work is a deep commitment to accessibility, creativity, and community—whether she’s guiding singers into effortless harmony, exploring rhythm as a tool for communication, or helping people rediscover the music that’s always been inside them.
Co- Founder and Director of Tinto Music and Arts CIC
Paul began his work as the driving force behind Rhythmbridge, an educational company which provided rhythm based workshops to schools from 1999-2021, bringing Culturally Specific Rhythms and Artists into these environments. During his time in education Paul developed the highly successful and internationally acclaimed Expressive Rhythm Stories Training.
Paul was blessed to study a variety of drums with many teachers from around the globe, including Lamine Bodian ( Bougarabou, Senegal), Ni Tagoe, Ben Lawrence ( Kpanlogo, Ghana), Iya Sako, Nansady Keita ( Djembe, Guinea), Mohammed Ibna Sin ( Bendir, Darbuka, Morocco), Duddu Tucci, Claudio Kron ( Samba Ensembles, Brazil) and began to teach Rhythms of the World classes in 1996.
He was one of the first people in the UK to train with Arthur Hull of Village Music Circles in Hawaii in 2001/2 and has developed his facilitation skills in a wide variety of setting in the years since. He was Program Director for UK Playshop and lead Trainer alongside Dr Jane Bentley until April 2024 when he parted company with VMC to follow his own rhythmical path.
As a consultant with Wiston Lodge Paul helped to develop a creative arts program and an outdoor Musical Trail as part of the BBC Children in Need Funded ‘Path of the Little People.’
Alongside his rhythmical work Paul writes and takes photographs. You will find his collections of words and pictures at https://pauljohndear.substack.com/
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