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We hope everyone had a great summer, it’s been wonderful and strange all at once. Here are some pictures from ours, park sessions, tree climbing, a magic music picnic by the sea and evening jams by the Thames.
Excited to start planning the autumn, with more music, collaborations, workshops, jams, gigs and dreams. 💙 Announcements coming soon!
“Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” - Leonard Bernstein
JOIN US THIS SATURDAY TO CELEBRATE WORLD REFUGEE DAY! 💜
We are hosting a musical fundraiser together with Refugee Solidarity SE,
from 12 - 3 pm (UK time) in ZOOM.
The afternoon is including some amazing music performances;
a Nigerian Song Workshop with the incredible Michael Ekeghasi,
and an open mic session - share anything from a song to a story, a rhythm or a poem…
Check the Facebook event for more info and updates:
Refugee Week Music Fundraiser
🎉 FLOTSAM FESTIVAL: MUSICAL JOURNEYS 🎉
Join us for a celebration of music from all over the world, with a musical extravaganza of 10 hours, Nack to back! We're bringing you LIVE streamed performances, on the Flotsam Sessions page, all day long, so get your dancing shoes ready and join the festival! 💃🏽🍹
(Virtual) Stage Times (UK Time - GMT+1)
14:00 - Introduction to the day
14.30 - Patrick Pheasant (Australia)
15:00 - Sukoon Bablani (India)
15:30 - Ana María Bautista (Colombia)
16:00 - Stuart Ironside - Music (UK)
16:30 - Mizgina Rengin (Germany)
17:00 - Kerttu Sormunen (London/Finland)
17:30 - Vilma & Sami (Finland/France)
18:00 - Manolis Bountalakis (Greece)
18:30 - Michael Ekeghasi (Nigeria)
19:00 - Yi Jia / The Sages - 竹林七贤 (China)
19:30 - Sophie Darling (UK)
20:00 - Worldwide Welshman (Wales)
20:30 - Moa Papillon (Sweden)
Flotsam Sessions Streaming Events are running every second week during lockdown, with a song workshop and song sharing, open and free to all musicians and music lovers who want to come together and connect through music.
Highlights from Flotsam Sessions Vol. 1 - Streaming Event, 1st April 2020.
How to participate in a session? Join this group on Facebook,
or send us an email -> Flotsamsessions@gmail.com
Super excited for Flotsam Sessions Vol. 1 - Streaming Event tomorrow, 1st April! After exploring possibilities in the digital world, we have landed in ZOOM where the session will take place. We invite everyone to join us for an evening of music sharing from your bedrooms! 🎶
We’re starting at 7.30 pm (UK time - GMT +1) with a song workshop -- those who join will learn an Occitan folk song, then we'll continue with song sharing, which will be streamed live (directly from zoom) into Flotsam Sessions: Digital Musical Journeys group.
If you want to participate, join this group and you'll find all the info you need 😊or email us, so we can send you the invite to the Zoom meeting —> Flotsamsessions@gmail.com
See you tomorrow 💙 from the Flotsam Team
*** Flotsam Sessions Vol.16 is happening as a digital event 🎉
Join us for an evening of music from all corners of the world, heart and mind - starting with a song learning workshop, followed by song sharing and jam. FS is an open space to share, express, connect and collaborate through music, and is open and welcome to all! 🎶🌍
7.30 pm - Online Live Song Workshop (TBA)
8.30 pm - Online Song Sharing (let us know in advance if you would like to share a song and we will ad you to the schedule)
You can access the stream on Flotsam Sessions: Digital Musical Journeys group - make sure to join the group beforehand HERE
Described by Ritu: The United Nations of Song, Flotsam Sessions on A World in London,
One of London’s most inspirational groups were live on AWIL this week. The Flotsam Sessions grew out of the pan European workshop initiative called Ethno World which has connected young musicians for over three decades. Flotsam are tailor made for our capital of culture and diversity and run jam sessions on the first Wednesday of each month at Club Makossa in Dalston, as well as gigs and workshops.
Dynamic founders Moa and Maya follow the philosophy that everyone can sing and everyone can make music if the passion for it is there. They invite musical representatives from different parts of the globe to teach Flotsamers a song or two and by rote/ear. In our live session at AWIL we heard perfect yet widely contrasting renditions of songs from Chile, Bulgaria, Sweden, and England but there’s a wider repertoire waiting to be translated onto disc.
Flotsam are not just supremely melodic and connecting, they're also passionate advocates of music tuition in schools and fans of skill-sharing. Radical cellist & balalaika queen Maya McCourt comes from Irish/South African mixed heritage and praises the Manchester Music Service in her hometown for gifting her with an introduction to traditional music in the form of her early years in the Kalinka balalaika ensemble.
Flotsam itself is a floating ship of cultural mix and in our studio we had guitarist Liam from Wales, Sami from France/Tunisia on percussion, clarinettist Ana-María from Colombia who grew up in Spain, Rodrigo from Chile playing cajón, and Moa from Sweden on guitar and mandolin. They ALL sing, and rather brilliantly! Catch the full Flotsam Sessions line up at Effra Social Club in Brixton on April 2nd and join their next workshop - because everyone CAN - at Club Makossa on March 4th!
19/2/20 – AWIL 241.
Listen: https://m.mixcloud.com/…/a-world-in-london-19th-february-2…/
We are delighted to be playing at the next Hand-picked night, at the Effra Social in Brixton, London, Thursday 2nd April. Get your ticket here!
Flotsam playing in Ghent! Liam, Michael, Moa & Kerttu
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