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📣 Volunteer shoutout! 📣
Our brilliant music volunteer, Maria Meyers, represented rb&hArts last week at the HLCC staff forum.
Maria spoke about our partnership with Live Music Now and discussed the impact of music on patient wellbeing in hospitals. 🎵
Here is a small clip of Maria's conversation with Luke Blair and a video made by Joe O'Hagen from our Communications team.
Thank you @mariameyersmusic for helping to champion our work, to Luke for facilitating such an important conversation, and to Joe for this fabulous compilation video 📽️
#artsandhealth #musicinhosptial #creativehealth
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Music is an important part of our health and well being, it has the power to bring us together and bring joy to its listeners.
Check out this video of the amazing performance by Kostas Glynos @konstantinosglynos
Find out more about our music and art programmes by visiting our website The arts in our hospitals | Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity (rbhcharity.org)
In our April Crafternoon "Matisse Birds" at Brompton Hospital we cut out and decorated many joyful birds! Patients, visitors and staff members - all cotributed and hopefully the chirpy birds will help the spring to arrive sooner!
Thank you @TNLCommunityFund for making this possible!
Royal Brompton Canteen Open Call for Artists 2024
rb&hArts is delighted to offer a commission to an artist to create a series of artworks for the canteen at Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea, London.
The canteen at Royal Brompton Hospital stands out amongst NHS hospitals for the quality of its food. Through this new commission we would like the aesthetic standard of the canteen to mirror the wonderful standard of the food that is served.
This commission is an exciting opportunity to re-brand and refresh the canteen, a busy space used by staff, patients and their families. We are looking for site specific, integrated designs throughout the space.
rb&hArts is committed to co-creation, and we would like an artist to work directly with canteen users (staff, patients and visitors) through a creative process that will influence the conception of the final work of art.
All artworks should be appropriate for a hospital setting and cannot contain nudity or offensive images.
For the full brief and more information please click https://buff.ly/49mqB0M
or email [email protected] with the subject line: request for pdf of canteen full brief.
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Bringing a fresh twist to Baroque music, Apollo's Cabinet, a duo of international competition winners Harry Buckoke (playing the Viola da Gamba) and Tom Pickering (playing the Recorder and Flute), captivated RBH wards this week with their rendition of Paul's Steeple!🎻 🎶
One patient said 'I was really depressed at 1pm today and, having listened to Tom and Harry, I now feel great. I videoed their playing and if I feel sad again I will listen to their music to brighten my spirits. It has made day!
Thank you to @tom_pickering_ @harry_buckoke for playing for us this week, and to @livemusicnow for your support! #Musicinhospital #Artsandhealth #Creativehealth
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We had the fab James Bramley and his Theorbo at RBH yesterday. His calming music uplifted spirits and provided comfort to patients during their stay - 'I have an operation tomorrow and I've been worrying all morning. The music has transformed the way I feel' 🎵 Thank you to James and Live Music Now for your support #artsinhealth #hospitalmusic
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@rudyjaykora also sings! Having studied the 22-string harp that is the Kora and Music at SOAS university and specialised in West African music he is a multitalented performer.
Rudy performs traditional repertoire dating back many centuries as well as his own compositions which are inspired by the master Kora players of Senegal, Gambia and Mali. One patient said "You get sucked into the music, your playing is amazing!"
@livemusicnowuk
#musicforwellbeing #africanmusic #kora #ontheward #rbh
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We had a great day at Harefield Hospital with a professional harpist Mark Levin playing his own arrangements of beloved tunes.
Patients and visitors were visibly moved by the healing and relaxing sound of the harp! It brought lots of smiles and eased the atmosphere. We visited the Anzac reception, HDU unit, as well as transplant wards!
Thanks for the beautiful arrangements of famous songs from the repertoire by The Cure, The Beatles, Abba...and many more!
@mark_harp,
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Cooking up a musical feast! Though Rudy trained as a professional chef specialising in Middle Eastern and East Asian cuisine we are grateful he now focuses his time on playing the West African 22 string Kora for us on the wards at Royal Brompton Hospital 🎵
One patient said "The music was beautiful no one has serenaded me in 100 years". We look forward to hearing more from him next week.
@livemusicnow
@rudyjaykora
#musicinhospital #creativehealth #kora #strings
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Vocal Beats Academy Vol.1 EP now available on all streaming platforms 🙌
With thanks to @roundhouse.works @youthmusic_charity @royalmarsden @royalmarsdennhs @tya__royalmarsden @rbhcharity
Design and illustration by @stac_ca and @memotone
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Get to know Apollo and his track 'Doorstep', evoking memories of carefree, endless summer days in the metropolis. Sampling his own voice and citing producer Aries as an influence, Apollo highlights his homegrown production skills with ease and natural flair 🙌
See our amazing young musicians in action Fri 24th Nov at @roundhouseLDN
Design & Illustration by @stac_ca & @memotone
With thanks to @roundhouse.works @youthmusic_charity @royalmarsden @royalmarsdennhs @tya__royalmarsden @rbhcharity
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Introducing singer-songwriter Marie Beall and her original new track 'Crying On The Bus' featured on EP Vocal Beats Academy Vol. 1 available to stream on all platforms!
Accompanying herself on the piano she tells a painfully familiar story of day-to-day life struggling to make ends meet, feeling like you are asking for too much and taking refuge in your favourite song while you cry on the night bus home - come on, we've all been there 😅
Design & Illustration by @stac_ca @memotone
With thanks to @roundhouse.works @youthmusic_charity @royalmarsden @royalmarsdennhs @tya__royalmarsden @rbhcharity
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Stream Vocal Beats Academy Vol. 1 EP NOW! 🙌 a stunning piece of work co-created by our Vocal Beats Academy artists at @roundhouseLDN creative studios.
Here's a sneak peak of opening track 'The Music of Life', an incredibly grounding and raw collaboration of spoken word and music production by Lauren Angrish and Apollo.
Join us Fri 24th Nov at Roundhouse https://buff.ly/49yEE50
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Sweet Serenades! 🎶 Singing for Breathing have been practicing some happy tunes to welcome this weekend's runners to the finish line at the 40th Annual @rbhcharity Harefield Hospital Fun Run! Will you be donning your running shoes tomorrow?! 🏃♀️
#singingforlunghealth #singingforbreathing #harefieldhospital #hospitalarts
Happy New Year everyone!! We hope you had a lovely, relaxing time over the festive period 🌟
We kicked things off this week with a lovely session from Rosie Bergonzi on the hand pan bringing chilled, soothing sounds to adult patient wards. Thanks to Live Music Now and Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity 😊🎶
Have you ever seen an instrument like this?! 😮
Yesterday we were delighted to welcome the wonderful James Bramley to Royal Brompton who performed to patients (out of shot) on the theorbo and lute 🎶 thanks to a new partnership with Live Music Now
Patients loved listening to the relaxing tones and asking questions about these beautiful historical instruments - “made me forget I’m unwell”
We’re looking forward to seeing James again in two weeks time along with other fantastic musicians from Live Music Now!
During the Covid-19 lockdown we had a long period where we were unable to deliver music on the wards. We had to find a whole new way of delivering our music online. Though it was challenging it opened up a whole new community of young people creating music together. Even though we’re on the wards again we are continuing with our online offer as the results have been amazing!
Here is a clip of some of our participants singing a song that they wrote and arranged in our songwriting and music technology course in 2021. We think they sound wonderful!
We can’t wait to see the results of our up and coming music course FRESH TAKES for 16-25 year olds, which starts TONIGHT!
It will be led by our amazing Vocal Beats artists @stac @heathermcclelland @mczani and film maker @elam Forrester
The course will run over zoom between 1st June - 20th July. Collaboratively we will create a fresh take on a classic song using singing, beatboxing, music production and filmmaking - no experience needed.
Email us at [email protected] to find out more
With thanks to our generous funders; @youthmusic_charity , @thebromptonfountain, @royalmarsden,The Radcliffe Trust and @rbhcharity
#vocalbeats #artsinhealth #musicinhospitals #musiciansinresidence #trailblaizers #heathermcclelland #stac #freshtakes #mczani #beatboxcollective #singing#Elamforrester#Theroyalmarsden#musicinhealthcare #nhs #coversongs #rb&harts #royalbromptonhospital #filmmaking
We are very proud to have champion beatboxer @mc_zani as one of our Vocalbeats artists. Here’s a clip of him doing some of his incredible beatboxing.We can’t wait for him
to lead our up and coming music course FRESH TAKES for 16-25 year olds. He will lead it alongside musicians @stac_ca & @heathermcclellandmusic and film maker Elam Forrester.
The course will run over zoom between 1st June - 20th July. Collaboratively we will create a fresh take on a classic song using singing, beatboxing, music production and filmmaking - no experience needed.
Email us at [email protected] to find out more
With thanks to our generous funders; @youthmusic_charity , @thebromptonfountain, @royalmarsden,The Radcliffe Trust and Royal Brompton & @rbhcharity
#vocalbeats #artsinhealth #musicinhospitals #musiciansinresidence #trailblaizers #heathermcclelland #stac #freshtakes #mczani #beatboxcollective #singing #Elamforrester#Theroyalmarsden#musicinhealthcare #nhs #coversongs #rb&harts #royalbromptonhospital #filmmaking
Emily Gardiner, the artist's first reaction
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