Music tuition for 70 disadvantaged London children

... that our Artistic Director, Sahana Gero, has recently received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2017 for her continuing and valuable services to music education and her tireless work with the wonderful students of the World Heart Beat Music Academy.

We are also delighted that, for the first time, we have recently received National Portfolio Status for 2018-2022 awarded by the Arts Council England - one of only three arts companies based in London to receive this prestigious award.  This will help to give us increased security over the next four years to be able to develop and continue to reach out to the young musicians in our community.

And to strengthen the old adage that good things come in threes, the exciting and entertaining Brazilian Flashmob recorded back in January at Southside Shopping Centre in Wandsworth has recently gone viral on Facebook with nearly 2 million views.  Performing a beautiful song by Brazilian musician, Andre Filho, written in 1935 for the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, many of the students who took part in the Flashmob are supported by your donations and were receiving free Brazilian workshops as part of this project. We are really proud that as a result of our students love for Brazilian music, they were able to spread joy to so many people around the world.

As you know, the World Heart Beat Music Academy gives children and young people the opportunity to participate in music and explore how music from different cultures can be brought together.  So this summer we are holding a Tango Music Summer School led by Blas Rivera, the top exponent of Argentinian Tango music, with guest bandoneonist Otto Hanriot. The bandoneon (Argentinian accordion) is the instrument at the heart of Buenos Aires tango.  Suitable for all instrumentalists and vocalists the course costs £70 for 3 days of workshops on 28/29/30 July culminating in a concert at the World Heart Beat Academy on 30 July and London's notable jazz venue, the 606 Club, on 1 August.  With the funding we receive from GlobalGiving, we are pleased to say that we will be able to offer bursaries for students who otherwise would not be able to attend.

Thank you all so much once again for your generosity and support allowing us to continue the valuable and exciting work we do here at the World Heart Beat Music Academy.