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#mingusmondays More action shots by @rw_crowley from our primary school theatre show in partnership with MertonMusic. #musiced

Excited to play some new arrangements by Pete Letanka this Friday Wimbledon International Music Festival. We’ll be featuring music by Abdullah Ibrahim along with the usual Mingus fun!

Swing along to flavio li vigni - using some Blues&RootsEnsemble YouTube resources for my morning teaching. #doublebass #musiced

Photo highlights from Rebecca Cresta, Robert Crowley and some audience members of our theatre shows to over 1700 primary school students in November 2023. Sponsored by Arts Council England and facilitated by MertonMusic. #mingus #musiced

Our next performance of this song will be Royal Albert Hall with 1300 students from Merton primary schools. BARE will also be playing with members of MertonMusic - premiering a new suite of music written by Pete Churchill & Adam Saunders . #mingus

Big workshop day, working with students from 4 primary schools and 1 school for students with SEND. Great to have the team back together trying out new songs and hearing all students improvise! #musiced #mingus

Next Saturday (April 13th) Eric Mingus will be featured West Hampstead Arts Club for a Q&A and live performance. Having been fortunate enough to chat with Eric a few times the BARE team are so excited to be able to meet him in person and hear him perform. westhampsteadarts.com/nightery_event…

BARE will be playing its next public concert in Wimbledon on May 24th. The band will be performing some new arrangements, highlighting some of the outreach work from the last year & raising money for future education projects in the South London Area. ticketsource.co.uk/booking/select…

We’re putting together a mailing list to share details of gigs, workshops & new education resources. Sign up here - bluesandrootsensemble.com/mailing-list #mingus #musiced

Belatedly reflecting on a wonderful night Royal Albert Hall with MertonMusic back in March. BARE performed a new Mingus arrangement alongside 1300 singers & then accompanied the massed choir for a stunning new suit of music composed by Pete Churchill & Adam Saunders. #musiced

A few tickets left on the door tonight for any Wimbledon folk who’d like to kick off the bank holiday with some Mingus music! Doors at 6:30 band on at 7:30pm.

Thanks to everyone who came to support band on Friday night - great fun performing new arrangements & sharing information about our outreach work. Our next live concert will be on June 25th Wimbledon High, playing alongside their students and pupils from Rutlish School. #musiced

Looking forward to this concert - always amazing energy when students from the 2 schools come together to play creatively. We have some new arrangements planned, as well as some incredible guest musicians joining us.

Band ready for #SouthwarkSplash today Southbank Centre with @SouthwarkMusic #musiced #BARE

Our new set of resources for schools is now up & free to access on YouTube! youtube.com/playlist?list=… Music by Dorothy Ashby, Abdullah Ibrahim & of course Charles Mingus - taught by the Blues and Roots team. #bluesandroots #musiced

It was great to have Jamie McCreddie& Raphael Clarkson 🇿🇦 join the BARE team last week Colfe's School. We had a special afternoon with students from Eltham Hill School & Harris Greenwich taking part in a massed instrumental workshop & performance.

BARE will be playing @crazycoqs Piccadilly on Sunday November 17th,5pm - hosted by Spicejazzsoho as part of EFG London Jazz Festival. We’ll be presenting new arrangements of Abdullah Ibrahim & Dorothy Ashby, as well as classic Mingus tunes. Tickets: tickets.crazycoqs.com/tickets/series…

We are thrilled to announce Eric Mingus will be joining the team as an Ambassador. A fantastic composer, performer & educator - Eric will be on hand to offer advice to the charity moving forward, including how to properly represent his father’s legacy. #mingus #BARE

A joyous day on Tuesday performing 2 concerts New Wimbledon Theatre to over 1,600 students & staff. Catch our next live performance this Sunday, 5pm Crazy Coqs. Tickets: tickets.crazycoqs.com/tickets/series… Spicejazzsoho