ROAR Drumline - Adelaide

13/03/2026

WANNA DRUM AT SOMETHING MONSTROUS!?

This Sunday at Port Adelaide is the annual Dancing Monsters Community Parade! Sunday March 15th in Port Adelaide, from 6ish for rehearsal, then 7.30pm to 9.30pmish for various event things, parade, and dj set boogie.

BACKGROUND:
The annual parade celebrates and pays homage to the Yertabulti Port River. This year is especially potent as we remember the impact of the algal bloom.

Throughout cultures and histories, monsters have been many things- including wards, omens, warnings, and protectors. What might contemporary monsters look like? What powers do they and we have inside us, to remember and protect the river? This year's theme is stingrays, so you will see more of those, but all kinds of monsters are welcome.

Dancing Monsters do it best when they have lots of drums and percussion (and whatever thing that makes sound really) to accompany.

TIMES/LOCATIONS:

Grace will be leading a silly workshop from 6 beforehand at the starting location/Port Adelaide Visitors Information Centre.

Parade kicks off at 7.30 in the lane there, after various festivities and official things including Welcome to Country, choir performance, potentially operatic crabs, and more.

Parade goes to the river via a boogie at the lighthouse;
then finishes with drumming and then DJ set at Vitalstatistix's awesome Working Women's hall.

DRUM PARTS:
Parts will be posted online later tonight or tomorrow, but will also be taught at 6. They will be simple.

INSTRUMENTS:
Grace can bring drums or percussion in for you if you let us know via comment or message, and will pack some spares as well just in case. Weird sounds (eg dog toys, wobbly things) also welcome and monstrous.

It's gonna be fun, silly, raucous, important, profound, all at once.

More info and run times at the event links:
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=dancing%20monsters%20community%20parade

https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/dancing-monsters-community-parade-af2026

Bored of being human? Come and be something else in a wild parade! This annual parade is open to all community, and expresses creative connection with the non-human world: places, animals, trees, or just something random from your imagination! No need to overthink it - just mask your fa...

18/10/2025

*Adelaide Pride March* *updated times*

Pride is here, baby! We are *registered* and now I just need you...drummers! Allies are of course very welcome!

Please let me know asap if you can come and also if you will want to borrow something from that ROAR collection or bring your own percussion (I can make anything fit).

We will have a pre-rehearsal on the day teaching all the stuff, then a short break for meals etc, then head over for pre-gather/marshalling, then play!

KEY DETAILS:
Date: Saturday 1st November

Key times:

Rehearsal from 2.30pm-4pm.

Break from 4pm - 5pm for meals/getting ready.

5pm - Meet back at Scots to walk drums to Rymill park marshalling location.

Arrive around 5.30pm for the 5-6pm marshalling window: Once drums are in location and we know our gathering spot, people can jam/have another short break as long as close by.

6pm parade starts- my guesstimate finish would be 6.40pm. Then party/jam our way back to Scots! **let me know if you potentially have a van we can send the drums back in instead** Then disperse, hit up an afterparty, etc.

I haven't been given our exact parade position yet, will update when I know.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are keen to play in the parade but cannot make the rehearsal beforehand or have to leave straight after parade, please still let me know and we can probably make it work... with hand percussion, or you might already know the grooves, etc. Being at rehearsal strongly preferable to support newcomers but I don't want anyone to miss out.

Rehearsal location: Scots Church Adelaide, corner of Pulteney st and North Terrace

Parking: Limited- please contact me if you have accessibility requirements or are lugging giant drums as there are about 4 forecourt carparks (I'm on one) and I can talk to the church about using a few more or organise a drum pre-collect with my car from you potentially.

Consider: Bringing your own earplugs, sunscreen, water, light snacks (not peanuts plz)

Possessions: We can lock these at Scots during pride and you can collect them afterwards when the drums are returned.
What we will play: I haven't decided yet! We may well do our classic Voodoo and Funk, with breaks of Knock on the Door, Everybody Dance Now and Kalashnikov Break 1...somewhat depending on newcomers. If I decide on something different I'll post it soon so you have time to listen and practice.

Wear: Whatever makes you feel fabulous and proud. Rainbow/fun colours of course are encouraged. Pink and silver are international ROAR colours, these also welcome.

I think that's everything. Let's get this show on the road! - Grace

-Photo credit unknown, but whatta shot!

15/02/2025

INVITATION TO MONSTERING/DRUMMING FOR FRINGE
Would you like to come and make percussive noise for the Annual Dancing Monsters Parade in the Adelaide Fringe, on Sunday 23rd March? Well, you can! I'm (Grace) coordinating the drums and the invite is extended to community to swell our ranks.

Click here to learn about the Dancing Monsters event:
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/dancing-monsters-community-parade-af2025 It's always a raucous time, a celebration of the Port River and of creative community and monstery otherness.

If you want to play for this, below is the rehearsal event to come along to beforehand on Sunday 16th March.

Comment below if possible if you plan to come and/or would like to borrow percussion so I can supply appropriately.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1276441906978612/?rdid=GXepRkmX3ULOxFb0&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F12JyT9Biw83%2F

Bored of being human? Come and try being something else in a parade! This annual parade is open to all community, and express creative connection with the non-human world: places, animals, trees, or just someone random from your imagination!  No need to overthink it - just mask your face and...

28/10/2024

Adelaide Pride March is this Saturday! We pre-gather at 2pm at Rymill Park, and play at 3pm. Our group location is ‘Blue Group 3’.

If you would like to dress comfortably fabulous and come and play some percussion as part of ROAR, comment below about whether you’d like to borrow an instrument and I’ll connect you with instruments and music before Saturday.

Proud community vibes!