Martin Schaerer provides high quality percussion workshops and classes in schools, youth clubs, at events and festivals and teaches kids and adults of all ages various styles of hand drumming. He also provides live music for health care settings e.g. Hospitals, day care centres and people with disabilities. Martin trained with teachers like Tomas Ramos “El Panga” Ortiz, Dud Tucci, Stefan Rigert among others and has performed with various groups and in different musical genres over the past 20 years both in Ireland and abroad. He began teaching and facilitating workshops himself in 2000. In 2012 Martin successfully completed Music Networks Professional Development Training Programme. Artistic adviser and lead facilitator of the training programme is composer and leading music facilitator Elaine Agnew. Martin’s classes are interactive, highly educational and a lot of fun.