💛🍂 Autumn Events

We are hosting four free song & tune learning workshops over Zoom, with amazing musicians from across the globe, together with our sister-project Ethno England. Starting Saturday 24 October! See you there?

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And we are delighted to start up our Digital Song Sharing Sessions again, happening every fortnight starting Sunday 1st of November, 7 - 9 pm. Keep your eyes on our Events page for updates and details on how to join!

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Flotsam Sessions: Song Sharing

We are delighted to welcome you all to a digital song sharing session, 11 October 4 - 7 pm!

Join us for a Sunday afternoon of music from all corners of the world, heart and mind. We invite you to share something you feel close to, be it a sea shanty, a folk song, your own composition, a poem, story or even a dance… or simply just come and enjoy the music and community! Flotsam Sessions is an open space to share, express, connect and collaborate through music, and is open and welcome to all.

The session takes place over zoom, using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85466193289

We'll start at 4pm with a bit of introduction and chat, followed by song sharing until 7pm.

If you wish to share something, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/dKwz7CrZT4SuP4SbA

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Goodbye beautiful summer months and welcome to a new fresh September 🍂

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

Flotsam Sessions: Musical Digital Journeys

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

https://www.facebook.com/groups/DigitalMusicalJourneys/

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Flotsam Sessions Vol 1 - Streaming Event

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

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Flotsam Sessions Vol. 16 - STREAMING EVENT!

*** 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

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A World in London - Resonance FM

Did you miss that time when we were live on Resonance FM, A World in London, with the legendary DJ Ritu? You can still listen to the show 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!

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Listen: https://m.mixcloud.com/…/a-world-in-london-19th-february-2…/