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UEL graduate bangs the drum at world’s greatest music festival

Thursday 17 June 2010

Fee Heberle

UEL anthropology graduate Fee Heberle is all set to play this year’s Glastonbury Festival as one of five members of the London School of Samba to take to the stage with North London hopefuls, Bombay Bicycle Club.

She will be playing the Surdo, a large single drum, with the band, on the esteemed John Peel stage on the Friday evening of the festival.

Fee said: “I am extremely excited about being on stage at Glastonbury; everyone who plays it says that there’s something special about the festival that sets it apart from all others”.

Not that Fee is a stranger to colourful and enthusiastic audiences, having performed at the Thames Festival, the Notting Hill Carnival and even at the Rio Carnival in Brazil, last year, with Mocidade Independente de Padre Miguel, one of the top samba groups in the world.

Fee said: “If it wasn’t for the University of East London, I would never even have known about Samba. One of my course modules was ‘the Anthropology of Carnival’, which inspired me to join the UEL samba group; we played at Stonehenge as part of the module, and now here I am playing Glasto and travelling the world as a samba musician. We’re off to Germany to headline the Coburg International Samba Festival in July, too!”

Fee will be in good company at Glastonbury, another former UEL student, Tinchy Stryder, who hit the top of the singles charts last year with his track Number One, is billed to perform on the Pyramid stage on the Saturday.

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