Multi Award Winning Female Saxophonist, Birmingham, UK, Jazz, Gospel, Reggae, Blues, Soul and Originals. 'Music for the soul'
On Wednesday 22 April 2026, I will be teaching a FREE webinar via Zoom about legal know-hows for gigging musicians. It is open to everybody who has access to the internet and wants to learn! Sign-up now.
The BBC Charter is a document granted by the King that provides the legal right for the BBC to exist and operate. It dictates how the BBC acts and what its objectives are. As you may already suspect, the BBC is one of the biggest employers of musicians in the UK. This means that it is vital for everybody in the British music industry to help shape the charter’s renewal by providing perspective and information.
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.
Good, fact-based and veritable information is empowering, and I strongly encourage you to find reliable sources to improve your decision-making and mental health in 2026.
To ensure our wellbeing and the longevity of our careers, it is vital that we learn how to manage stress. There are several strategies that we can apply. Wishing to improve and complement my own methods, this year I took a stress management course taught by the Real Society of Musicians and put on by BAPAM.
At first glance, the need for medicine aimed to creatives in the areas of music, dance, acting and live entertainment may not be clear. We are humans like everybody else, so what could we need that others don’t? What happens is that the demands of our job make us suceptible to ailments that aren’t as common in other industries.
‘Time For My Music’, my community-focused online programme that helps emerging female musicians reach their music goals and dreams, is open for new members from today until Sunday 13th July!
Today is International Workers’ Day! Let’s celebrate the achievements of workers across the globe to defend our rights and ensure better labour conditions for everybody. The origin of this holiday can be traced back to union movements, so let me tell you about the Musicians’ Union.
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.
