Across the summer our #Networkpartners & #colleagues are offering an incredible range of #musical activities for the whole family: holiday courses, workshops, performances and more - see our activity calendar for more information & check back for updates! >shorturl.at/R1478

An historic Last Night of the Proms - thrilled some Belize percussion, courtesy of the great Pen Cayetano made it into my JERUSALEM. Now onto the next piece.

Great to hear @SamSpenceEMS Sharon Jagdev Powell Dr Steven Berryman & Philip Flood speak about racial diversity in the music education workforce today at the #MusicMark20 Music Made conference. Still lots to do but some great reflections and suggestions.

Thank you to the many schools that are working hard to keep pupils playing & singing with safety & mitigation measures. It is both possible & allowed. If your school has paused music, do look at the guidance from Department for Education & The UK Association for Music Education: Music Mark. #candomusic gov.uk/government/pub…

Congratulations to the inspirational Deschannel Gordon, HackneyMusicService alumni and former Mossbourne Community student on winning BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year 2020. Hugely proud of his success. Hackney Council The UK Association for Music Education: Music Mark Arts Council England Youth Music 🎵🎶🎹

Our #Year6 Morningside Steel Pans Band performed fantastically in the HackneyMusicService Virtual Festival. We can't wait to see the finished production. #SteelPans #Music #Festival

Did you catch the recent BBC documentary about #Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti? Delve deeper into his back-catalogue at Hackney Libraries! bit.ly/3mdppoE HackneyMusicService @villunderlondon Ing. Armin Jäkel💼📗🗾 Vortex Jazz Club

Hackney's Windrush celebrations continue tonight with FriendsofWD. Enjoy the writing and creative talents of Hackney’s younger and older residents who have a connection to Windrush. 👉🏿Click into the virtual event from 6pm. bit.ly/3d8u4Gi

If music be the good of love…we eat it for breakfast @DaubeneyHackney! Year 6 boys starting their Thursday in a musical fashion 💛

#Year6 have been treated this afternoon to a concert from the Apollo Music Projects orchestra. It was a fantastic experience that the children really enjoyed. Thank you all so much for all your hard work.

With reasonable control measures, singing can take place safely in schools. For a reminder about the existing guidance around singing in schools, please visit our Music Unlocked page for a guide to assessing the risks & making music safely. #CanDoMusic

First week of the Hackney Schools Music & Dance Digital Festival completed! Lots of lovely footage shared by schools for us to sort through! Following on from the #makaton in the EYFS event, today was #BSL Signing / Singing. More on #Monday 😊🎤🎵 #inclusion #inclusivepractice

Ofsted warns schools over unbroken KS3 music teaching | TES ow.ly/Peve30s0nZw

We join many of our colleagues across the Music Education Sector in asking everyone to help find this talented young musician #FindHarvey

For the second day of Christmas we share with you Day 1 of the Voces Online Festival 2021 – music, poetry and discussion to enjoy as you relax over the holiday period. youtu.be/iXtpTIvUVwU

London’s first Caribbean bookshop, The New Beacons Bookshop in Finsbury Park, is closing down. 25% of all books, please come down and support. It is such an affirming space, my heart breaks.

Wellbeing, understanding trauma, and seeing each other as equal: Our curator Brenda Rattray speaks with Music Teacher about our upcoming 'Inclusive Practice In Action' conference on 7 April + what you can expect! Best read with a morning coffee...☕ musicteachermagazine.co.uk/features/artic…

We have lots of fab schls looking for music teachers next year, ranging from P/T to F/T posts, mostly primary but a bit of secondary too. Any curriculum music specialists interested in coming to work in Hackney get in touch! Email [email protected] #musicteacher #hackney

We are using #RMES2022 for this (thanks Steve Jackman)

We only went and commissioned a piece of Turner Prize winning art! Huge congrats to Veronica Ryan whose winning work includes the Hackney Windrush Commission.Thanks to Petra Roberts who led this and Mayor of Hackney and Carole Williams (also on Blue Sky) for backing it. theguardian.com/culture/2022/d…