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2025

CORE Studio Sessions - (Feb/March) We're providing open-ended, have a go music sessions for West Corwall teenagers from Jan to March at the Orchard's new CORE building.

St.Ives Community Foodshare - We began the year in style by playing at the new year communal meal at St.Johns in the Fields church on 11h January.

Feast Day - We led the processional band on behalf of St.Ives Town Council, before performing a few tunes at St.Ia Church, the Western Hotel and St.Ives Library.

2024

Christmas fundraising - We played a bunch of our tunes at St.Ia church on 9th Dec, raising £160 for the brilliant St.Ives Community Foodshare group and £79 playing outside  the One and All Aid shop in Penzance to support our friends who run this amazing charity. We also played for the lighting of the Christmas lights in Treneere, Penzance.

St.Ives September Festival - We hosted several events this year -  Sea Junk Jam, Full Moon Drumming, Songs from the Core and Songs of St.Ia,  plus our join-in global music sessions at the Kettle and Wink

July-August - Come and Drum at Whole Again Communities, Treneere Estate, Penzance. We hosted five join-in music sessions for all-comers as part of WACs All Fired Up cooking skills programme for young people (Supported by Penzance Town Council)

July  12th-14th- Tropical Pressure - Movements Area - we joined our friends Jodie Tellam and One and All Aid to present join-in songs, jams and discussions on how we can heal a deeply divided world

May - July. -  We've just finished working with two St.Just schools for the summer term, delivering  music taster sessions to support the integration of resettled children  (supported by Creative Kernow)

June 22nd -  St.Ives Community Orchard Solstice Festival - We hosted a young people's music stage, organised and run by the participants themselves

June 1st - Bude Climate Festival - We  hosted all-day community drumming and anything-goes jamming sessions at this inaugural event on the theme of reducing plastics and other landfill - while reusing stuff found at  the Bude Two Minute Beach Clean to add to the orchestra!

May 27th - Penzance Community Day - We provided drop-in jamming sessions and the like for all ages  in Morrab Gardens, next to our friends from One and All Aid.

Monday May 13th - We performed a set of original, Celtic and latin tunes at the St.Ives Town Council's annual awards function at the Tate, St.Ives

Sunday April 21st - We performed our songs "Rosebud", "Wild Experiment" and "All hands on deck" at the Swim in Support of the Sea event, at Gwithian beach 

Friday 19th April - The CORE - St.Ives Community Orchard. We performed at the opening event for this fantastic new community learning hub

  Sat 13th April - PEACE- HOPE - PARTY at the Yacht in Penzance - we played a set at this community event which raised over £5000 for Medical Aid Palestine

2023

Community drumming in Penzance - We held a series of join-in music sessions at the Street Food Project in Penzance (see short film below). We're hoping to resume these in the near future

Rhythms Alive at Cornwall College - A recent project involving music workshops with a group of teenaged asylum seekers. We're looking to continue this involvement in 2024

Community performances 2023:

We performed at the Edward Hain Centre, St.Ives as part of an event celebrating its successful creation

Also in 2023 - we hosted events at Badgers Food Forest Open Day and the St.Ives September Festival (St.Ives Arts Club) with our Songs of Community