About Glenn

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

Glenn Huxtable began his drumming journey in 2003 when he made his first African styled hand drum as a woodworking project. He had no prior experience of drumming.

Deciding he should at least learn how to play the drums he was making, Glenn joined the newly founded Hills Community Drumming Circle, in Darlington, Western Australia, where he now lives. Glenn now runs the weekly Hills Community Drumming Circle and adminsters the HillsDrumming  Facebook page.

In the following years, Glenn attended numerous workshops in African cultural drumming, eventually leading in early 2008 to a journey to Ghana, in West Africa, for a month long workshop in African Drumming and Dance.

 

In 2009 Glenn attended his first of many Village Music Circles Facilitator’s Playshops, where he was introduced to facilitated, fully inclusive and in-the-moment rhythm making that was not based on learning set rhythms, where there are no wrong beats, and where all player are actively engaged, regardless of their drumming skills or experience. Glenn was hooked.

Glenn began facilitating drumming circles for schools, aged care, special needs and community events, while continuing to work full time in Information Technology Systems Administration.

In 2016 Glenn studied the HealthRHYTHMS evidence-based group empowerment drumming protocol with Music Therapist, and co-author, Christine Stevens, MSW, MT, at the 3rd Asian Rhythm Facilitator’s Conference in Malaysia.

In 2018, on a break from the IT industry, Glenn founded Sustaining Rhythms to share his love of group empowerment drumming for building community, health and wellness.

Glenn has also competed Facilitator trainings in the very successful DRUMBEAT and Rhythm2Recovery programs for using drums in psycho-social learning programs.

Glenn also plays, teaches, and has made a Ukulele, has forgotten most of what he once knew about playing Mandolin, and has made and occasionally noodles around on  the  Irish Tin Whistle, and other more esoteric instruments.

Glenn is passionate about the health and social benefits of group music making, and all inclusive jamming, where no player is left behind  regardless of experience, expertise or ability. Making music is too important to be left to musicians.