It’s been another fantastic year for the Tinderbox Tuesday Hub. Great shot here of everyone practising ‘Roar’ by Katy Perry ready for our end of term gig on Tuesday 26th. It’s going to be a great night! Get your tickets here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tinderbox-collective-end-of-term-concert-tickets-46764584130.
Great to chat with Michael Cunningham, Curriculum Leader of Expressive Arts at Craigroyston Community High School, about our partnership.
Fantastic to hear from Matt about the Rock Trust workshops and the formation of the Rock Trust band leading to their first gig!
Here’s an interview with the fantastic Ryan from our Intermediate Orchestra course. What a star!
Good to hear from Bryden Stille about the partnership between Tinderbox and Edinburgh Napier University. We’re really looking forward to all the opportunities ahead of us in this partnership in 2018/19.
We’ve been having a lot of fun composing a song for performance at Leith Gala day with young people at the Multi-Cultural family base. Here’s a wee taster!
What a day we had working with S!nk and Fingal Youth Choir!
Liam Baker has made a fantastic video of our collaboration with S!nk at Inverleith House in April.
What a pleasure it was to work with such amazing musicians and videographers!
Niki, Emily and Thomas paid a visit to Perth Theatre to see Kenny and Julia perform the final show of Teenage Trilogy. Niki caught up with them just before the show opened!
How are you feeling before the last show?
Oh, quite sad, because we’re like a family now. We just had a huddle and some people cried.
Ooo have you seen this? [brings over show programme]…look it’s my name and Kenny! My dad’s on here somewhere, there he is.
Is there anything that has stood out to you being part of this project and show so far?
Yes, Chris Devany is amazing, she’s so inspiring and nice to work with.
How have you found working with a professional cast?
Great fun, the professionalism of the whole project has been the best for me.
How much creative input do you feel you’ve had within the show?
Quite a lot adding my own music and seeing them dance to it.
Do you have any advice for other young people that might be interested in taking part in something similar?
Yes, keep practicing the drums and you’ll be as good as Kenny is!
Niki Dunne – Musician & Tinderbox Champions Project Manager
Our new Orchestra Trailer goes live today!
The footage was all taken as part of the rehearsals and performance at Hidden Door Festival 2017. What a gig it was!
Thanks again to everyone at Hidden Door for everything.
Thanks to Trina McKendrick for the great video of the Multicultural Family Base Ceilidh.
We’re looking forward to the next one on 21st May.
We’ve had a lot of fun over the last few weeks visiting High Schools for our orchestra courses. The challenge in these workshops has been to collaboratively compose a piece of music for orchestra in 2 hours. The aim is that the piece will be interesting but also simple enough to be played by beginners. We started with improvising rhythms and used these to develop melodies and then bunged it all together to see what would happen. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and some great musical ideas came out of it.
Here’s Jed interviewing Tessa Martin of Craigroyston High and Maree Anderson at Balerno about the workshops.
Students on our Digital Music course at Craigroyston Community High School continue to nail it this week. We’re now at the point where they are producing their own tracks. Check out this from DJ Brian:
And here’s Craigroyston High School music teacher Rachel Ponte talking about our projects so far:
Another inspiring week at our Tuesday Y&C Hub at North Edinburgh Arts.
It was a surprise to have a very accomplished young piper joining us to jam with the drumming group.
I caught up with one of our regular Hub participants
And the night finished with a brilliant perfomance from our newest rapper – Wee Natural
We had a fantastic time brining in the Chinese New Year (a little early) at the Multicultural Family Base Ceilidh.
Jessica Hui, one of our Tuesday Hub team, shared a traditional Chinese tune that her mother had taught her when she was young. The rest of the band improvised along. Definitely something we’d like to develop further.
Also a fantastic collaboration with Wei Wang and her friend in singing the ‘Chinese New Year Song’. The melody seems familiar!
We have really enjoyed our partnership with the Multicultural Family Base so far. We’re aiming to organise events that help people share their different cultural backgrounds and develop a sense of community and support for those who get involved. We have a series of workshops and events planned for the rest of the year. Watch this space for more info.
Thanks to Mike Kearney for this fantastic video of the Tinderbox Orchestra gearing up for the Hidden Door Fundraiser Party on the 17th of May. We’re on at 7pm so make sure you get there early!