Drumming for Elder Care & Parkinson’s with Randy Armstrong • Southern District YMCA Exeter NH • April 23, 2026 @1PM

Drumming For Parkinson’s & Elder Care

Presented by Annie’s Angels Memorial Fund, join us at the Exeter Area YMCA for this exciting new program! Lead by professional musician, Randy Armstrong, participants are sure to enjoy this unique and beneficial program! Drumming offers many health benefits including Regulating Blood Pressure, Improving Sleep Habits, Increase Dopamine and Serotonin levels to help create an overall emotional outlook, Improve Motor Skills, Develop Muscle Tone, Stimulating Brain Functions, Decrease Stress and of course FUN!

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Randy Armstrong. has been hailed by the Boston Globe as “a sure-fingered, guitar virtuoso” and Downbeat Magazine has called his music “a marvelous kaleidoscope of shifting melodies, rhythms and instrumental colors.” He was the Director of the Phillips Exeter Academy African Drumming Ensemble and North Indian Music Program from 1991 to 2020 and has taught courses for the Plymouth State University Integrated Arts Graduate Studies. Randy was selected to be the 2017- 2018 artist in residence for the Portsmouth Symphony Orchestra and was the recipient of the 2017 New Hampshire Governor’s Arts Award for Arts Education. Randy is the co-founder of Do’a World Music Ensemble, Unu Mondo and Beyond Borders has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Alaska, Belize, India, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy and South Africa and West Africa. He has appeared on over 60 albums, theater and film scores and has been the recipient of numerous grants from the National Endowment on the Arts and the New England Foundation for the Arts. In 2023, his new group, Randy Armstrong & World Beat Marimba received NH Magazine’s Best of New Hampshire “Ambassadors of Peace” Award. He has served as an Arts Councilor for the NH State Council on the Arts appointed by two NH Governors and is on the NHSCA Arts In Education and Arts in Health juried rosters. Randy has presented educational programs for tens of thousands of students throughout his career.