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Talent Unlocked at HMP Leicester
This year’s highlight has been our involvement in HMP Leicester’s “Talent Unlocked” arts festival. This highly ambitious project involved 2 months of weekly ‘pop up’ performances and a two week festival ‘proper’. Drum and Brass arranged for 9 artists to perform at...
HMP Music Workshops Leicester
From September 2017 Amy and Julie of Drum and Brass will provide weekly performance arts sessions for inmates at HMP Leicester. This is part of a national recognition of the value of the arts in rehabilitation. It follows our successful pilot at HMP Glen Parva.
Southfields Concert Brass Training Band
Southfields Concert Brass Band is working with Leicestershire Schools Music Hub and Drum and Brass CIC to develop talented young brass players in the city. Rehearse Thursdays, 7.30 to 8.15 pm St Hughes Church, Sturdee Rd, Eyres Monsell LE2 9BU Coaching and grade...
EMC2 Festival DMU, The Venue
Julie Maxwell joined leading experimental performers and composers at DMU for the first Experimental Music Catalogue festival. Featuring original, new and established works from the Experimental Music Catalogue this was an opportunity to take a fresh look at modern...
Stabat Mater The City of Leicester Singers
1st April 2017, 7:30pm, St James the Greater, London RoadKarl Jenkins - Stabat Mater Featuring Hari Trivedi on tabla Karl Jenkins’ work lends itself to artistic adventure and this performance effectively showcased the choir, the organ, the tabla and the contralto...
Regular music-making sessions:
Woodgate Orchestra – every Friday 7 pm – 8 pm at Woodgate Resources Centre A music group for players of all levels, ages and instruments. Supportive and fun, £2 per week. More details? Mail us via our Get involved page Tots, tunes and tall tales at Gorse Hill – from...
Drum & Brass visit Glen Parva Centre
Drum and Brass visited Glen Parva centre for young offenders just before Christmas to talk about running music workshops there. Glen Parva has a long-running music program run by the chaplaincy and I saw great work being done by the team of volunteers and inmates...
Happy New Year from Drum & Brass Leicester!
2016 is a massive year for Drum and Brass. It marks the end of months of planning and preparations with our lovely partners, some of whom we thank here (in no particular order) Bret Battey at DMU, Leicestershire Schools Music Hub, LCC, Woodgate Resources Centre, St...