Assist assist Brixton Chamber Orchestra in providing communities residing in Lambeth’s housing estates the chance to come back collectively to take pleasure in an uplifting musical expertise

Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s Summer season Estates Tour 2023

Certainly one of Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s central tenets is a perception that that orchestral music ought to be on the centre of society, reaching folks in their very own group, and that everybody, no matter circumstance, ought to have entry. 

To this finish, since December 2018, the orchestra has given common Estates Excursions round Lambeth, bringing a 30-piece orchestra to carry out different programmes free throughout estates in Lambeth with each a Christmas tour and a Summer season Estates tour. 

This yr’s Summer season Estates Tour takes place over two weekends – 19 – 28 July, with 11 property exhibits and a workshop and efficiency at Jubilee Main College, with 2000+ anticipated to attend! The venture gives communities residing in Lambeth’s housing estates the chance to come back collectively to take pleasure in an uplifting musical expertise free to all locally. We deliver shared group areas to life with dwell music and gives common publicity to dwell performances in many various genres with a wide range of devices. Most of the audiences have by no means been to an orchestral live performance earlier than.

Summer season Tour performances happen outside, in grassy gardens or within the amphitheatre-like central areas on estates surrounded by balconied tower blocks. The place potential, performances are built-in into residents’ present occasions, with the entire group coming collectively in celebration. 

Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s Summer season Estates Tour 2023

The occasions are all free and the orchestra depends on exterior funding to assist cowl the prices. Sadly for this Summer season Tour the orchestra didn’t obtain the anticipated funding from one of many organisations that has supported these excursions for the final 4 years, so regardless of finest forward-planning and funding technique, the tour is susceptible to cancellation.

The orchestra has created a Go Fund Me web page to assist cowl a number of the prices, please do assist.