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During the October break Jed, Sam, Niki, and Rob went along to play some tunes for the happy smiling faces at the multicultural family base autumn ceilidh. It was great to [...]

As 15 musicians of the Tinderbox Orchestra arrived quietly one by one to sign in at the reception of Broughton High School. I’m not sure anybody knew of the explosion of [...]

Amazing Harmonies is a community music group for children (generally aged 5-15) in North Edinburgh born out of the adult community singing group of the same name. Twice a [...]

We’ve spent the last few weeks hanging out at Granton Youth Club making some music and teaching instruments. It’s great to see that a lot of the participants are [...]

Over the October break we help two drop in demo sessions with a bunch of the instruments at the Muirhouse Instrument Library. We had lots of young people trying out trumpets, [...]

Thanks to all the players, collaborators, audience members and supporters who helped us to have a sold-out Fringe show! Every show was uniquely exciting due to our amazing [...]

What a privilege it was to play at Solas festival. Thanks to all the festival organisers and to Adlib for the incredible sound. What a lovely way to finish off the term. [...]

“And so we’ve reached the end of Tinderbox Sparks for this year. It’s been a group who have lived up to the name. Full of ideas and creativity. Wild improvisations [...]

“Niki and KC have really enjoyed working with the children at seamab learning general music skills and beginning to focus on an instrument. We handed out all these [...]