Global Music Academy

What a week it's been 🪘🕺🎶🚸🌊🔊🎤

After months of fruitful planning, we've delivered one of our most extensive projects to date. Together with we put on 'Culturefest' - a global music showcase across schools in Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre.

The exciting initiative introduced pupils to global cultures through music, offering a mix of school assemblies, interactive workshops and a celebratory concert for pupils and their families.

With thousands of pupils reached, we couldn't be happier with the outcome and will be sharing more of the magic (and our stellar facilitators) in the days to come.

As always, it's such delight to work with !

We teamed up again this year to do a number of days across schools in Tower Hamlets, thanks to our new collaboration with Tower Hamlets Arts & Music Education Services.

Over 4 days we worked with over 1400+ pupils in assemblies and classrooms, as Sohini gave them a beginners course in Bengali songs, singers, scales and theory.

And we're just getting started! Well be back this autumn with a full Arabic music takeover with some of Syria's finest.

Manchester - Arabic Music Workshop
Maqams, Rhythm and Melody
Feb 17th
FREE

For this special workshop, we welcome the award-winning qanun player Khalil Khoury and percussionist Ruven Ruppik. Currently touring with renowned singer Nai Barghouti, they will make a special stop at .academy as part of their Manchester concert at RNCM.

Khalil and Ruven will guide participants through a variety of lessons, from maqams to rhythmic cycles, improvisation and melodies. This workshop is for all ages and levels (although a basic understanding of music is encouraged) - and will serve to teach and strengthen your understanding of the cornerstones of Arabic music - and how you can use it in your craft.

There will also be an opportunity for Q&A, as well as a guest lesson by Nai Barghouti.

Doors - 18:30
Workshop - 19:00-20:30
Price - Free, but registration is required via www.sahba.co.uk

Moments of magic with !

Brent schools takeover showcasing the roots of West African music traditions, Appalachian folk and East African riffs.

Alongside a live performance, pupils learned about the kora, the endless functions of a calabash, the history of the banjo, and how infectious Ethiopian grooves truly can be.

A big thanks to and .

Vishnu Vijayan is a music educator, percussionist, researcher and curriculum designer. He holds two masters degrees in music, one from University of London and the other from Azim Premji University in Bengaluru (Bangalore). His teaching expertise is in rhythm workshops for Tabla and Konnakol (the vocal vocal representation of percussive rhythms), as well as Hindustani classical music. 

Vishnu’s teaching approach revolves around music appreciation, thematic, and child centric education, and he was a music instructor with the Shankar Mahadevan Academy. Recording for many independent artists in India and London, he’s part of the UK-based fusion bands ‘Sound Anthropology’ and ‘MTV’ and has performed with artists like Shreekumar Vakkiyil, Mathangi Jagdish, Kartik Raman.

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Throw back to this time last year when and shared melodies from West Africa on kora and guitar with pupils in Warrington

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