The King's Drummers

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As part of the arrangements made between English Heritage, King Arthur Pendragon, Wiltshire Police and Stonehenge authority in 2000, a samba bloco known as The King's Drummers were requested to create a visual and audible performance at Stonehenge each Summer Solstice.

The main aim of this was to give the large public crowd something to focus upon, and detract their activities from less acceptable behaviour such as climbing and vandalising the neolithic monument.

King Arthur Pendragon, has been an active campaigner on access rights to many neolithic monuments and environmental protests across the British Isles for over two decades, and was instrumental in the re-opening of Stonehenge on summer solstice.

To recruit the King's drummers, he used his wide network of contacts and enlisted the help of Chris Knight, Doctor of Anthropology at the University of East London, and their samba group, Barking Bateria. The Bateria has played at Stonehenge and Avebury each solstice since, under the pseudonym the King's Drummers.

References: personal experience. I was there. I lived it. Sorry, can't do better than that

See: Loyal Arthurian Warband[1]

Council of British Druid Orders (CoBDO)[2]