Welcome to The Circle: Magic Moments From a Drummer's Journey

Welcome to The Circle is an inspiring memoir from one of New England's leading Drum Circle Facilitators. Craig Norton shares his 30 years of experience in community drumming like it was yesterday, with uplifting magic moments and breakthroughs as well as challenges of being a self-employed teaching artist. These pages will bring you into the circle, from pre-school music education, through drumming with all ages and abilities and his experiences in palliative care. His stories will inform and inspire your curiosity about the human need to be in rhythm and how drumming is being used as a therapeutic practice in special education, hospitals, addiction recovery and elder care. He shares lived experiences working in schools that prove drumming is a much-needed practice in every classroom, teaching valuable positive life skills while they play. Craigs stories prove that following your dream of creative self-employment and helping others through rhythm-based protocol can be a joyful and fulfilling career. Craig Norton is a professional Drum Circle Facilitator, Master Teaching Artist, writer, filmmaker, photographer and naturalist. He is nationally credentialed by Young Audiences/Arts For Learning and endorsed by Remo Drums. Craig produced and directed the award-winning documentary "Rhythms of Life" about the wellness of rhythm and drumming.