“He gets up in the morning and he starts to drum, and he drums all day, and that’s just it,” Teddy’s mum Claire told BBC News NI.<\/p>\n
The toddler from Portadown, County Armagh, got his first drum on his first birthday.<\/p>\n
“He’d be sitting in his high chair with his spoons in his hand and he was always drumming, always banging,” Claire said.<\/p>\n
Claire credits Teddy’s father’s family and Rectory Community Action Group for nurturing Teddy’s love for drumming through group sessions with local bands.<\/p>\n
“We would attend quite a few band parades throughout the year and it’s just something that he really, really loves,” she said.<\/p>\n
“He’s in awe every time he sees them going past, and he loves the Lambeg drum as well, it’s not just the side drum, he’s obsessed with drums in general.”<\/p>\n
After sharing videos of the young drummer on social media, Claire says the reaction has been overwhelmingly positive.<\/p>\n
“They are just completely baffled by how someone so small can play the way he does,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“He gets up in the morning and he starts to drum, and he drums all day, and that’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-255259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114832716819646194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}