Ben's song

Lovely song, Ben.

Ben

Hello, my name is Ben.

I have recently started working with Heart Beats so Leah can go and have another beautiful baby. I work in a special school and play a whole heap of instruments including banjo, guitar, accordian and autoharp. The 2 sessions I have been involved with so far have been amazing fun and I am looking forward to making loads more fantastic music with the Heart Beats gang. I'm bringing my autoharp too this week so we will have 2 autoharps for the price of 1.

Autoharp

Ta Da! new autoharp now in tune and sounding very Americana!

Here's lovely June Carter with hers.
Thanks to the Somerset Community Foundation for making this purchase possible. We're looking forward to using it in our session this week.

http://www.hobgoblin.com/local/GR6304_p_Ashbury-21-Bar-Deluxe-Autoharp-Page.htm

Thanks Hobgoblin - we are excited and waiting for our new autoharp.

Jamming

And here's a jamming moment - the background sounds are people arriving, chatting, and setting up the room. But there's not a moment to spare for the Heart Beats music makers ...

Improvisation

Improvisation : a beautiful focused Heart Beats moment

steel pan

Liking the look of this pentatonic steel pan .... mmmm....
shall we get one?

We feel good

Here's some of the Heart Beats crew, feeling good. Like they knew they would. Yeah!

This one speaks for itself! See you on Thursday everyone.

We can now confirm our Heart Beats CPD day is happening on Monday, September 17th at Wells Museum, Somerset. This day is called 'Lifemusic - creating community through music' and will be led by Dr Rod Paton.

Rod will show us that we can communicate through music because:

Everyone is musical

There are no wrong notes in music

Every sound has a meaning

Making music is an act of trust.

 

This will be a day of music, fun and exploration, with friendly people in an inspiring setting.

We have a limited number of places available at £30 for the day. People who may benefit from this day could include music leaders, educators who use music in their work, music therapists, and people who work in creative settings with young people and adults with learning differences.

Please email info@heartbeats.org.uk for more information.