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Gafro is a professional drummer percussionist based in the Wirral,North West UK. He regularly teaches percussion at LIPA (Liverpool) and other drumming workshops around the North West. Although he predominantly teaches West African drums, he does also teach Cuban percussion and Brazilian Samba drumming as well as drum kit. He founded the Lark Lane Drummers in 2003, details of which appear on his website gafro.com Gafro is also the founder and leader of Rapataka which played for the Millennium Dome Celebrations for the turn of the century as well as at the Blue Peter Proms 2000, in the Royal Albert Hall to a standing ovation. Other groups and musicians he has been involved with include The Inner Sense Percussion Orchestra, Beat Life and the Shovel Heads with Richard Newman, Emma Welsby and Jody Linscott.