AFRICAN drum and dance group Brekete wowed audiences in Calne schools last week as part of One World Week.

Brekete's visit was funded by £3,333 from the National Lottery's Millennium festival awards and £200 from North Wiltshire District Council.

The group held workshops in all the town's schools last Tuesday with an extra session for members of the public on Saturday afternoon.

On Saturday evening it held a free concert for more than 200 people at John Bentley School, where students from the workshop also took part.

Calne's One World Week events organiser Derek Quinn said: "They were absolutely phenomenal, they really brought Africa to Calne.

"Some of the children had never seen black people before or experienced African culture and this is really what One World Week is all about."

Fellow organiser June Poffrey, said the experience was educational as well as cultural.

"The reaction everywhere was terrific and all the children and staff were totally overwhelmed.

"I watched some of the smaller children watching the men very carefully, weighing up what was different about them and what was the same," she said.

The group of eight performers, the majority of whom were born in Ghana, and are based in London.