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Hello and welcome to Sounds of… a podcast created by Drum and Brass, with the support of Arts Council England, in which we explore the impact of art and music on our lives. In today’s episode Drum and Brass director, Davina Vencatasamy speaks to Dr Helen Minors - one of the contributors to the conference taking place in Leicester on Saturday March 26th and organised by Drum + Brass called Doing Mu...

Hello and welcome to Sounds of… a podcast created by Drum and Brass, with the support of Arts Council England, in which we explore the impact of art and music on our lives. Drum and Brass is a Community Interest Company whose mission is “To Do Music Differently”.On March 26th we are holding a day of workshops, discussions and networking at Curve Theatre in Leicester called "Doing Music Differently...

Hello and welcome to Sounds of… a podcast created by Drum and Brass, with the support of the National Lottery, and Leicestershire County Council in which we explore the impact of music on our lives. My name is Kim Burley Jones and I/m one of the directors of Drum and Brass. In today’s episode ‘m talking to John Sinclair. John has a background as a radio presenter and sports commentator and followi...

Hello and welcome to Sounds of… a podcast created by Drum and Brass, with the support of the National Lottery, and Leicestershire County Council in which we explore the impact of music on our lives. In today’s episode, we hear Drum and Brass director, Julie Hoggarth talking to Saffron Hill. Saffron Hill is a poet who has experienced life in care and whose creative force has been triggered at least...

Hello and welcome to Sounds of… a podcast created by Drum and Brass, with the support of the National Lottery, and Leicestershire County Council in which we explore the impact of music on our lives. In today’s episode, we hear Drum and Brass director, Julie Hoggarth talking to Shobana Prasad,Shobana Prasad (sometimes known as Soulful Shobana) is a former intelligence analyst in the British Civil S...

Hello and welcome to Sounds of… a podcast created by Drum and Brass, with the support of Arts Council England, in which we explore the impact of art and music on our lives. In today’s episode Drum and Brass director, Dainon Gorman finds out how Hari Trivedi started Drum and Brass with Julie Hoggarth. As well as being a graphic designer, Hari is a musician who plays the Indian drum called a tabla t...

Hello and welcome to Sounds of… a podcast created by Drum and Brass, with the support of Arts Council England, in which we explore the impact of art and music on our lives. In today’s episode Drum and Brass director, Julie Hoggarth talks to the artist “Ruinbow” about his art and wellbeing. The artist known as "Ruinbow" discovered a passion for art while serving a custodial sentence. On release, he...

Hi and welcome to our latest podcast. Today we would like to introduce our latest project "Prabandh", supported by the National Lottery Fund. It is a research project on the roots of Indian Classical music and lead by Pritam Singh who is a global name in music. This is our second project with Pritam and an absolute honour to have his expertise and guidance. The project team also consists of Hari T...

Hello and welcome to Sounds of. Today we have Kim Burley Jones in conversation with Cheryl Armatrading. Cheryl Armatrading set up the AAA Foundation after the tragic death of her son Antoin Akpom. Antoin was a community youth worker who used sport to aspire to their goals and inspire young people away from crime. Cheryl continues his legacy as the Managing Director of the Antoin Akpom Achievements...

This podcast was recorded in May, shortly before the sad death of Jahmaine Davis - an inspirational person who dedicated his life to his anti-knife crime campaign "Stop the Bloodshed". Jahmaine first worked with us when we performed "Not for Human Consumption" with students at Rawlins Academy and Millgate School. He reduced the students to tears with his stories and to a standing ovation with his...

Hello and welcome to Sounds of… a podcast created by Drum and Brass, with the support of the National Lottery, and Leicestershire County Council in which we explore the impact of music on our lives. My name is Kim burley jones and in today’s episode, I am talking to fellow Drum and Brass director, Julie Hoggarth about her experiences of learning and teaching people to play music. When Julie and I...

Hi all, Welcome to SOUNDS OF...Today we're in conversation with Sheila Allen. Sheila is a cornet player and a music teacher with Flowers Band. She's been appointed by Brass Band England to develop Youth Brass Banding. We hope you enjoy this podcast and look forward to seeing you in the next one!

Hi all, Welcome to our latest podcast of SOUNDS OF... Today we welcome the dynamic personality, Rachel McLoughlin. Rachel works for awards for young musicians, she is a French horn player and is an amazing mentor. We met her through the Brass of the Saff project.

Hi all, welcome to SOUNDS OF. Today our directors Kim Burley Jones and Hari Trivedi are in conversation about the work Hari does and how he has coped in lockdown. Hari is a graphic designer, music teacher who plays the tabla to a classical standard, he is also a music producer where he creates healing soundscapes. You can see his work on the below links:Tabla: www.tablaschool.co.uk Healing soundsc...

Hi all and welcome to Sounds Of. In today's episode, we hear Julie Hoggarth in conversation with Melissa Brown. Melissa is a brass and piano teacher, trombone player, and podcaster. We are really fortunate to have her working with Brass of the Saff. We hope you enjoy this podcast.

Hello all, Welcome to Sounds of. Today we're fortunate to have had an insightful conversation with the highly influential artist Carol Leeming. Carol Leeming is primarily a storyteller, weaving together music, theatre, dance, poetry or digital images still or moving, she creates a liminal space, for interesting things to happen. Carol write plays, and both short and long form poetry. Her choreopoe...

Hi all, welcome to Sounds of Jenny Berry! A great pleasure to have Jenny with us in today's podcast, she is such an inspirational person. Her resilience, willpower and talent in expressing herself through words is something which we are all in awe with. We hope you enjoy this chat with Jenny and do follow her on her social and her website http://www.jennyberry.co.uk/

Hello and welcome to the first podcast for 2021! We all hope that you're keeping safe and healthy physically and mentally. We are privileged to announce the latest podcast in conversation with the sensational talent Marcus Joseph!

Hi all, welcome to our latest podcast, we have Julie Hoggarth in conversation with professional Cellist and teacher Griff Wadkin on the impact of playing on his wellbeing and that of his students. Some really insightful topics covered and we would love to hear your feedback.

Hello all, A warm welcome to you all. Today we hear Julie Hoggarth talking to Amanda Leandro, project manager of Cosmopolitan Arts and nominee for the Leicester Woman of The Year Awards in 2018 on the role of music combating racism. She is a highly influential personality that supports people of all abilities.

Welcome to our latest edition of the Sounds Of podcast! Today we welcome Michelle and Andrew to share their thoughts on music and how it has helped them through their life. A really insightful conversation between one of our directors at Drum and Brass, Hari Trivedi. We hope you enjoy the conversation. Many more to follow.

Drum and Brass introduce their new podcast by talking about the difficulties and challenges of new online working in this pandemic.