We hope that you are all remaining safe and well and enjoying the beautiful Bank Holiday weather.
We’re here to keep you up to speed with all the news from Coda Music Trust and music content for you to enjoy.
SURVEY
Thank you to everyone who completed our reopening survey in last week’s update. We will be taking a look at the results with interest and they will help inform our plans regarding both online tuition and timescales for a future phased reopening.
We are discussing lots of ideas with tutors and group leaders for delivering tuition and ensembles online and we will be in touch as and when the details are confirmed.
CODA FACEBOOK LIVE EVENTS
Thank you to everybody who joined us for our absolutely fabulous Livestream gig from The Coasters (Hayley & Paul) on Friday.
It was so lovely to see our friends again and enjoy their soulful sounds – and it raised an incredible £280 for Coda!
We have now raised over £2000 from our Live Stream events – thanks to your generosity!
If you missed Paul & Hayley’s live stream, you can now see it on Coda’s YouTube channel click here where you can now also see all of our previous Facebook Live gigs from Stephen, Jonny, Owain, Guy and James as well as The Gramophone Hour hosted by Stuart.
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This Friday 29th May, we are excited to welcome our friends Megan & Ruth of Scuttleshake, who will be performing for us.
Megan and Ruth are one half of the south west based band Scuttleshake, who will be performing a Facebook live gig for Coda.
In their own words, Scuttleshake are “four women, singing, harmonising, picking and playing the fool… performing covers of Americana and folk songs from both the UK and around the world.”
The usual festival season has been cancelled but that’s not stopping them from performing. Although the full band can’t make it, Ruth and Megan will do their best to fill the gap.
“We hope everyone will enjoy a lively performance about, life, death, travel, love, fun, breakups, getting back together and the occasional banjo joke!”
To see a little message from Megan & Ruth click here
Join us online on Friday 29th May at 7pm
on facebook.com/CodaMusicTrust/
and support us through the ‘donate’ button on our Facebook Live stream.
Looking ahead to next week, on Friday 5th June, our Livestream gig will be with our fabulous piano tutor Vivienne Kirk.
PLAY-ALONGS & PERFORMANCES
As ever, Stuart Jebbitt has been busy this week – he has recorded a new self-Isolation play-along for Guitar and Ukulele, as well as a performance of ‘Crazy Love’ for your entertainment!
Guitar & Ukulele Strum-along Episode Nine: Hold Back The Night click here
And you can enjoy Stuart’s performance of ‘Crazy Love’ from his conservatory click here
Stuart also made an appearance in the Lymington Times for his ‘Gramophone Hour’, which you can still watch on Coda’s YouTube channel click here
HOW HAS LOCKDOWN AFFECTED YOU?
Kieran Procter is one of our wonderful volunteers at Coda, having worked with our Beautiful Sounds sessions for adults with Learning Disabilities for several years.
He has been using isolation to get creative and asked people to send him images of how lockdown has affected them.
Using those messages, he has put together this brilliant music video. Well done Kieran!
Click here to watch Kieran’s cover of Christina Perri’s ‘Jar Of Hearts’
CELTIC HARP WITH STEPHANIE
Our exceptionally talented tutor Stephanie Liney has been performing a selection of soothing music on Celtic Harp, inspired by the British Coastlines, on Livestream.
This is as part of her “Songs Of The Seals” Livestream Series for ‘One City One Light’ and you can see the whole series on YouTube. Click here to enjoy Stephanie’s ‘Coastal Inspirations’ and to see the whole series click here.
LOCKDOWN LESSONS FROM THE STARS
Lockdown is granting us all unprecedented access to some of the world’s biggest stars, as many of them take to social media to teach us their secrets.
So if you’ve ever wanted to learn guitar from Johnny Marr or Bass from John Taylor, now’s the time!
JOHNNY MARR
As part of a recent Youtube series by Fender, The Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr (one of the most acclaimed and brilliant guitarists in rock music), has given a lesson on how to play The Smiths classic song The Headmaster Ritual.
To see the tutorial click here
JOHN TAYLOR’S STONE LOVE BASS ODYSSEY
John Taylor, one of pop’s funkiest bassmen has also taken to Social Media for his his ‘Stone Love Bass Odyssey’ lockdown series, where he breaks down Duran Duran’s biggest hits.
John’s clearly loving these tutorials and so are we. To check out the episode on the song Planet Earth click here and for Girls On Film click here … and you can find even more on the Duran Duran Youtube channel click here.
SHLOMO’S HOMESKOOL BEATBOX ADVENTURES
Record-breaking beatboxer SK Shlomo is hosting weekly mass beatbox lessons to empower kids and raise money for NHS Charities Together.
In this global experiment in music and technology, kids and their grownups are learning mind-blowing beatboxing skills, finding their true voice and creating songs of their own.
Over six weeks, this huge community project aims to create a ‘Homeschool Anthem’ during the interactive livestreams.
The lessons go live each Thursday at 2pm on YouTube. This will be week 4 but you can see the 3 lessons so far (which also include guest appearances by K T Tunstall, Jason Mraz and Bill Bailey) on Shlomo’s YouTube channel click here
TELL US YOUR NEWS
We would love to hear from you if you have any content that you might like to share with the Coda community. Please email marina.tucker@coda.org.uk with links.
SUPPORTING CODA MUSIC TRUST
Don’t forget, alongside our Facebook Live Fundraisers and Just Giving (www.justgiving.com/codamusictrust), you can support Coda through Amazon Smile – it won’t cost you a penny and works brilliantly if you are shopping online!
AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices and shopping features as Amazon.co.uk The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, Amazon will donate 0.5% of the net purchase price from your eligible AmazonSmile purchases. Millions of products on AmazonSmile are eligible for donations to charities by Amazon. For more information, visit https://smile.amazon.co.uk/about.
Have a great week, stay safe and we’ll be back next week with more news, play-alongs and events for you to enjoy!
