If the consumer frenzy of Black Friday gives you the ick, supporting a cause you care about on Giving Tuesday is an easy way to reset the balance!
This year Giving Tuesday is on 29 November and we need to raise £4,000 by the end of the day.
We’re thrilled to announce that renowned musician, bandleader, composer and broadcaster Jools Holland has become our newest patron.
On 11th May 2017 we celebrated our five year anniversary with a very special gig at Bush Hall raising funds for the next generation of artists. Our almost entirely female led line-up included MADAM, the RACHAEL COHEN QUARTET, and KOKOROKO. With a special guest performance from NITIN SAWHNEY. There were some truly exceptional performances, a raffle, an…
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Marina Mansilla Hermann is a young social entrepreneur specialising in the fields of youth leadership, environment and education. She is the founder of TierraVida (www.fundaciontierravida.org), a youth-empowerment non-profit based in Argentina with the mission to activate young people as environmental leaders in their communities. She currently manages Ashoka’s Changemaker Education and Changemaker Schools network across…
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Time flies! What we’ve been up to these past four years…. This time last week we spent a wonderful evening celebrating Abram Wilson’s life and four years of the Abram Wilson Foundation. In a LondonJazz review of the concert (which you can find in full HERE), Naoise Murphy wrote “the young musicians on stage have…
Photo credit: Rah Pethibridge The Abram Wilson Foundation is proud to announce Kansas Smitty’s as one of our founding Associate Artists. Officially launched in 2013 by eight hungry jazz-possessed twenty-somethings today Kansas Smitty’s consists of the Kansas Smitty’s House Band, an ever increasing community of young jazz musicians, and the world’s best imaginary jazz bar…
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On Sunday 22nd November band leader for Kansas Smitty’s, Giacomo Smith and I caught up with Jim Spring at Wandsworth Radio to tell him a bit more about the Abram Wilson Foundation and Kansas Smitty’s as part of their late night jazz show, The Chiminea. For the last couple of years the Abram Wilson Foundation…
Last night we continued our monthly jazz residency at The Hospital Club in Covent Garden with the wonderfully talented, Smitty’s Big Four (little brother to the foot stomping Kansas Smitty’s House Band). Led by Giacomo Smith on clarinet the band delighted a packed room with their usual mash up of jazz genres from New York…
“Horsfall’s vocals are reminiscent of that cult dance band revivalist Max Raabe and, like the charismatic Berliner, he knows exactly how to bring the past to life.” – The Sunday Times (Album of the Week, 2014) “A concise, lyrical player and an especially fine singer: Swinging, impassioned, but never overstated.” – JazzLives, USA The Abram…
On Wednesday 10th June we partnered up with our lovely friends at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden and presented our third anniversary gig in memory of Abram and the legacy he left behind. Every year we try and do something in the spirit of Abram and what better way to do that than to…
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