Multi Award Winning Female Saxophonist, Birmingham, UK, Jazz, Gospel, Reggae, Blues, Soul and Originals. 'Music for the soul'
Education, job and funding oportunities
Signups are open for the FREE webinar, ‘15 ways to promote your music online and offline’. No matter if you do music for a living, as a side job or as a hobby, you can benefit from this knowledge to expand your reach, grow a fan base, and share your art with more people.
If you already know where most of the notes are in a saxophone, can perhaps play a few songs, and you want to learn how to make your playing richer, strengthen your improvisation skills, and improve your stage craft, I would love to accompany you in your next step.
If you think you’re too old to start learning how to play a musical instrument, I’m happy to tell you that you are wrong! Not only is it never too late to start, but doing so in your adulthood can actually protect your brain against cognitive decline associated with age, among other things.
The marvellous Louise Dengate, who I had the pleasure to interview for my podcast Success Beyond The Score back on season 2, has put together a three hours long workshop that will give you everything you need in order to get immersed in the world of gospel choirs.
I took a five sessions funding course with Vernon Hogg and Davies Okeowo from Oxford Innovation Advice. They taught me about the different ways I could try to get funding, what is expected from funding applications, grants and sponsorships, how to do a pitch, and what to have in mind while doing business, among other things.
Thanks to a hearing health scheme by Help Musicians, I went to get moulds done for my own custom in-ear monitors earlier this year, all at a very affordable rate. Let me tell you how to apply too!
Applications to the NatWest Accelerator programme are open. There’s also going to be a free discovery event and hub tour on Feb. 20th in Birmingham. Don’t let this chance pass!
A few weeks ago, I received an e-mail by researcher Mahaliah Edwards, who’s looking for musicians with in-depth cultural and social understanding of two or more distinct musical traditions.
Learn about Abel Selaocoe, an internationally acclaimed cello player who’s making a change with his music, and learn about opportunities for other Global Majority musicians to do the same in the UK.
