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| Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s Summer Estates Tour 2023 |
One of Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s central tenets is a belief that that orchestral music should be at the centre of society, reaching people in their own community, and that everyone, regardless of circumstance, should have access.
To this end, since December 2018, the orchestra has given regular Estates Tours around Lambeth, bringing a 30-piece orchestra to perform varied programmes free across estates in Lambeth with both a Christmas tour and a Summer Estates tour.
This year’s Summer Estates Tour takes place over two weekends – 19 – 28 July, with 11 estate shows and a workshop and performance at Jubilee Primary School, with 2000+ expected to attend! The project offers communities living in Lambeth’s housing estates the opportunity to come together to enjoy an uplifting musical experience free to all in the community. We bring shared community spaces to life with live music and offers regular exposure to live performances in many different genres with a variety of instruments. Many of the audiences have never been to an orchestral concert before.
Summer Tour performances take place outdoors, in grassy gardens or in the amphitheatre-like central spaces on estates surrounded by balconied tower blocks. Where possible, performances are integrated into residents’ existing events, with the whole community coming together in celebration.
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| Brixton Chamber Orchestra’s Summer Estates Tour 2023 |
The events are all free and the orchestra relies on external funding to help cover the costs. Unfortunately for this Summer Tour the orchestra did not receive the expected funding from one of the organisations that has supported these tours for the last 4 years, so despite best forward-planning and funding strategy, the tour is vulnerable to cancellation.
The orchestra has created a Go Fund Me page to help cover some of the costs, please do support.
