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Reminder about this show on Tuesday 3 dec - fab quintet playing the music of Mingus + a short solo tbn set from Raphael Clarkson 🇿🇦 as a bonus support slot!

Next Monday 9/12 3pm Brunswick Sq Bristol ! BDP | Bristol Drugs Project creative communities winter show. I’m leading the Bristol Recovery Orchestra in some South African jazz by Abdullah Ibrahim & Louis Maholo plus PeakFiddler ‘s beautiful ‘Winter Solstice’ ❄️🌟 Bristol24/7

🎄✨ In the spirit of gifting — here’s a SA-UK jazz album I worked on. Equal Spirits 🇿🇦 + 🇬🇧’ “Wise & Waiting” ft Raphael Clarkson 🇿🇦, NOSIHE, amaeshi ikechi, yonelamnana, Siphiwe Shiburi, myself as NoZaka (on poetry) & 25+ other musicians: music.apple.com/za/album/wise-… Cover art by The Mahdi🌻

Easily top 5 favourite Jazz drops of the year for me 🥹♥️

Next show! 7th Jan Tony Orrell & Raphael Clarkson 🇿🇦 , ‘The Last Minute Meter Readers’, improv, jazz, loops, video projections… tix: hdfst.uk/e120926 Bristol24/7

Our Jan-July 2025 season… some absolute bangers in store for you ! All tickets will be available on Headfirst at least a month before the gig date. See you at The Bristol Fringe, Clifton for contemporary jazz & improvised music, South West and beyond 🎉🎉

⭐SPOTLIGHT⭐ Last year, we worked with LMSlincsmusic tutors from across the county as part of #TogetherThroughMusicLiveCPD! Music Leader Raph Clarkson led a creative exploration of resources in preparation for a series of projects taking place in SEND settings this year👏

Next show: Tues 4th Feb Tomorrow’s New Quartet, Rod Oughton - drums Ben van Gelder - sax Flo Moore - bass Deschanel Gordon - keys Tickets: hdfst.uk/e121629 It’s going to be good ! At the Bristol Fringe pub, Clifton

next show! hdfst.uk/e123674 Tues 4 March Inspired by the unhinged end of French 🎸 Jacques Montagne’s playing this group attempt 2join th dots btwn jazz manouche, electric Django Reinhardt& more recent experimental improv. Ross Hughes Raphael Clarkson 🇿🇦 Alex Merritt

new project LEDLEY out on 4th April impossible Ark records with Chris Williams !!! Avail now to preorder on Bandcamp Gigs 6th April, The Post Bar, Tottenham 8th April, The Cube, Bristol Vid by Freeze Productions Logo/artwork Karolin Nusa

Next show ! 1st April, Sam Norris quartet performing music from debut album ‘small things evolved slowly’ hdfst.uk/e126338 At The Bristol Fringe - see you there !!! Raphael Clarkson 🇿🇦 Alex Merritt

Thanks to Tony Dudley-Evans for this write up of LEDLEY! Out 4th April! London show 6th April Bristol show 8th April tdepromotions.wordpress.com

LEDLEY : Bristol album launch , 8th April 2025. Supported by Riaan Vosloo & Tony Orrell - who created the remix visuals below of LEDLEY’s tune ‘One Knee’. Tony calls it ‘gods and kings’. For more of this , come along on the 8th to the cube Microplex: hdfst.uk/e124392

A pleasure talking to the Today Programme BBC Radio 4 Today about our ESRC School Meals Service 🍽 research and the upcoming exhibition at Food Museum! #schoolmeals Jeanette Orrey MBE Education@Sheffield History of Education #histed Social Sciences | The University of Sheffield bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

LEDLEY album out 4th April! ledley.bandcamp.com/album/ledley Live in London Sunday 6th April Post Bar Tottenham: thepostbar.co.uk/event-details/… Live in Bristol Tues 8th April The Cube: headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the-c…

Chris Williams interviewed in the Morning Star today , about LEDLEY!! morningstaronline.co.uk/article/s/spur…

Next show! Awesome experimental musician Luigi Marino playing tuned cymbals + Zarb joined by Raphael Clarkson 🇿🇦 & Harriet Riley . 6th May, tix hdfst.uk/e128745 . It’ll blow and melt your mind !!!!

Next show ! ELLIOT GALVIN SOLO , 3rd June : hdfst.uk/e130533 Raphael Clarkson 🇿🇦 Alex Merritt Bristol24/7

Officially the coldest line in football history 🥶