Music Map - South East
Each month we list music venues, organisations, shops and events around England that we think you should know about. This month, we’re looking at what’s going on in the South East.
Berkshire
Josaka
www.josaka.com
Their objective is to support live music in Berkshire. Josaka.com is a privately run site that is designed to be informative and easy to use.
Dawkes
www.dawkes.co.uk
Take it away retailer. Specialist Woodwind and Brass suppliers dealing in instruments, repairs, accessories and sheet music.
Berkshire Maestros
www.berkshiremaestros.org.uk
Teach Berkshire’s young people how to make music by providing instrumental and vocal tuition in schools and at music centres throughout the county. Currently teach over 7000 students in Berkshire and teaching staff have specialisms in different types of music, from classical to jazz to rock to world music.
Drumwright
www.drumwright.co.uk
Take it away store selling drum kits, snare drums, cymbals, stands, pedals, heads, sticks, spares, electronic drums. orchestral percussion, Latin and World percussion, cases and accessories.
South Hill Park
www.southhillpark.com
South Hill Park Arts Centre offers a broad programme of live music and performance.
Handel Pianos and Electronic Accordions
www.electronicaccordions.co.uk
Take it away store supplying accoustic and electronic accordions, and accoustic pianos of all types. Also offer repairs, restoration and tuning.
Berkshire Record Outlet
www.berkshirerecordoutlet.com
Sell hard to find classical music, as well as opera, film scores, jazz, blues, and world music.
Hickies
www.hickies.co.uk
Take it away retailer stocking a range of instruments, which are ready to be tried out.
Philip Brown Violins
www.philipbrown-violins.co.uk
Take it away store which stocks a wide range of affordable instruments, including a good choice of bows.
Culture Mix Arts
www.culturemixarts.co.uk
Provide culturally diverse music education, training, employment support, professional career development and creative industry mentoring with an emphasis on cultural and urban event management and steel pan music development.
Sheargold Music
www.sheargoldmusic.co.uk
Take it away store specialising in pianos and guitars.
The Guitar Works
www.theguitarworks.co.uk
Take it away retailer stocking a wide range of guitars and accessories.
Po Na Na
www.eclecticbars.co.uk/readingponana
Po Na Na Reading is an intimate 300 capacity nightclub programming regular live music, situated on Duke Street in central Reading.
Reading Arts Centre
www.readingarts.com
A guide to what’s on in Reading at different venues.
Berkshire Music Institution
www.berkshire-music-institution.org.uk
Music school in Langley, open to people of all ages and abilities.
Music 4 Slough
www.music4slough.co.uk
M4S aims to provide high quality and diverse music-making opportunities for 0-18 year olds in Slough, targeting young people in social, economic or educational need who might otherwise lack opportunity to make music. M4S works across a wide range of ways to make music, including music technology, DJ/MC skills, vocal skills, song creating, music production, band development, traditional and acoustic instruments.
Slough Young People's Centre (SYPC)
www.sypc.co.uk
Focus exclusively on the needs and aspirations of Slough residents, with policies that are devised by and for people aged 16-25 years. Facilities include a performance space and recording studio.
Sound Studio
www.soundstudio.org.uk
Offer drop in sessions and music workshops for young people.
Berkshire Youth Jazz Orchestra (AKA Pendulum)
www.pendulum-byjo.co.uk
Pendulum’s members are musicians from as young as sixteen, to thirty-something. They are students, young professionals, and seasoned members of the music profession. All music is performed is by living composers, presenting great, creative music at the cutting edge.
Readipop
www.readipop.co.uk
Readipop is an arts organisation in Reading offering workshops that develop creative uses for new digital technology, exploring music, sound, image and beyond. Readipop specialises in work with young people.
Buckinghamshire
Aylesbury Music Centre
http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/bcc/content/index.jsp?contentid=-1277428320
The centre is a vibrant educational & cultural resource in our community, offering exciting opportunities to children of all levels of musical ability, in a friendly environment.
Brighton and Hove
Ackerman Music
www.ackermanmusic.co.uk
Take it away retailer, stocking a large selection of instruments, sheet music and accessories.
Musicroom
www.musicroom.com
Take it away store stocking a range of brands, including Epiphone, Fender, Taylor, and Martin, over two floors.
Brighton Dome
www.brightondome.org
The South Coast's leading arts and entertainment venue, including the Concert Hall, Corn Exchange and Pavilion Theatre.
Brighton and Hove Music and Performing Arts
www.bhmpa.org.uk
Part of Brighton & Hove City Council's Children and Young People's Trust, providing a range of music and performing arts education and performance opportunities for children and young people across the city.
The Hanbury Club
www.thehanburyclub.com
Bar in Kemp Town offering regular live music.
Joogleberry Playhouse
www.joogleberry.com
Bar and music venue in the centre of Brighton.
Pressure Point
www.pressurepoint.me.uk
Music venue in the centre of Brighton.
Komedia
www.komedia.co.uk
Live entertainment venue presenting a diverse arts and entertainment programme. With around 700 performances of music, comedy, cabaret and theatre each year, most nights of the week there are at least two shows to choose from.
The Greenhouse Effect
01273 204783
Live music venue.
The Volks
www.volksclub.co.uk
Live music and club venue.
East Sussex
Glyndebourne
www.glyndebourne.com
Opera and classical music venue in Lewes, East Sussex.
Brighton Institute of Modern Music
www.bimm.co.uk
Offer a programme of courses run by musicians, for musicians.
University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk
The Music Department at Sussex has a unique range of programmes, with a special emphasis on contemporary classical music including composition, analysis, opera and music theatre, computer music, electroacoustic, and film music.
Hampshire
Becketts Music
www.beckettsmusic.co.uk
Take it away retailer, specialist in the educational sector. Staff are brass, wind and guitar players who can assist customers with their purchase. Instrument repair facilities. Established 1946.
Hayes Music
www.hayesmusic.co.uk
Take it away store specialising in the sales and repairs of Brass & Woodwind instruments.
Nevada
www.nevadamusic.co.uk
Take it away store stocking over 1200 guitars and bass guitars and offer educational discounts.
The Guitar Store
www.theguitarstoreonline.co.uk
Take it away store offering a wide range of guitars, bass guitars and accessories.
Hampshire Music Service
http://www.hants.gov.uk/education/hms/
Music resource for the Hampshire area.
West End Centre
www.westendcentre.co.uk
Aldershot's West End Centre is a friendly, intimate venue with something for everyone. Blues, folk, rock, dance and world music, theatre, comedy, art exhibitions, plus classes and workshops in pottery, art, movement, literature and crafts for adults and children.
Art Asia
www.artasia.org.uk
Promote South Asian music, dance, drama and art in the south of England.
Turner Sims Concert Hall
http://turnersimscouk.pre-dns-change.com/
The Turner Sims Concert Hall was opened in 1974. Today, the Concert Hall hosts more than 60 concerts a year and attracts international performers in classical, jazz, folk and world music. Based in Southampton.
Anvil Arts
www.theanvil.org.uk
The Anvil Trust has details of performances at three of Hampshire's finest arts and entertainment venues: The Anvil, The Forge and The Haymarket.
Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra
www.iwso.info
The IWSO is a well-established non-professional Symphony Orchestra on the Isle of Wight. The Orchestra performs music from a varied repertoire, usually at the Medina Theatre in Newport.
Medina Theatre
www.medinatheatre.co.uk
The Medina Theatre is a community based theatre which plays host to a number of entertaining and varied performances.
The Memorial Hall
www.freshwatermemorialhall.org.uk
Freshwater's Memorial Hall is a popular venue for events on the Isle of Wight. Freshwater is close to Yarmouth, which has frequent ferry crossings to Lymington Pier in Hampshire.
Ryde Studio Theatre
http://www.rydehigh.iow.sch.uk/?_id=427
Ryde Studio Theatre is Ryde High School's new performing arts theatre. An amazing resource for the students as well as a fabulously versatile space for use by the wider community.
The Venue
www.rydetheatre.co.uk
Music venue showcasing local bands and International superstars.
Kent
Musicianshop.com
www.musicianshop.com
Take it away retailer offering a wide range of instruments and accessories.
Music For Change
www.musicforchange.org
An educational charity that promotes awareness, understanding and respect for cultural diversity through music and the performing arts in order to achieve beneficial change.
Pie Factory Music
www.piefactorymusic.com
Pie Factory Music is a charity set up to provide music and related arts workshops for young people across East Kent. They aim to create a better cultural and social environment and a higher quality of life, through music and related arts primarily, but not exclusively, for young people.
Kent Music School
www.kentmusicschool.org
Kent Music delivers instrumental and vocal teaching to over approximately 14,000 pupils, mostly school age (5-19) but also including several hundred pre-school and adult pupils, throughout the County of Kent.
Thanet Youth Music
http://www.youthmusic.org.uk/Action_Zones/thanet.jsp
Work with children on on music projects.
Oxfordshire
One Man Band
www.ombmusic.co.uk
Staff will ensure you buy the instrument which suits you best. Will demonstrate and let you try a selection of models
Oxford Playhouse
www.oxfordplayhouse.com
Oxford Playhouse has a well-earned reputation as one of Britain's leading theatres. It also programmes music and musical theatre events.
Oxford Contemporary Music
www.ocmevents.org
Aim to promote high quality new music for a wide range of local and national audiences by staging and promoting performances, commissioning new work, and by deepening understanding and appreciation of musical cultures from within the UK and worldwide.
Professional Music Technology
www.pmtonline.co.uk
Take it away store and winner of the 2006 MIA awards for Best Retailer.
Ark T Centre
www.ark-t.org
The Ark T Centre is a creative arts project where every week around 900 people share in its life through art workshops, dance classes, music, visiting the gallery and eating in the cafe.
Surrey
Chamberlain Music
www.chamberlainmusic.com
Take it away store offer a wide range of musical instruments, sheet music, and accessories
Andertons Music
www.andertons.co.uk
Take it away retailer voted Best Independent Retailer by the Music Industry Association in recognition of performance, sales, customer service and store presentation.
Sheargold Music
www.sheargoldmusic.co.uk
Take it away store specialising in pianos and guitars.
Farnham Maltings
www.farnhammaltings.com
The Maltings is a collection of buildings set in the heart of Farnham that provides a place in which people can imagine, create and discover. Offer encouragement and opportunities for all types and age of artists to develop their own work.
Live and Direct
http://www.spelthorne.gov.uk/leisure_culture/youngpeople/lei_youtharts-2/lei_live_and_direct-2.htm
A programme supporting young people aged 12-19 to develop their own contemporary music and their own performance style, either as individuals or in bands. The overall aim is to develop the confidence and skill of young musicians to enable them to make informed decisions about their musical futures.
Academy of Contemporary Music
www.acm.ac.uk
ACM courses provide serious musicians with the opportunity to develop those vocational skills and an awareness of professional standards.
Yehudi Menuhin School
www.yehudimenuhinschool.co.uk
Yehudi Menuhin founded the famous school in 1963. Musically gifted children are encouraged to develop their potential to the full on stringed instruments and piano.
Orpheus Centre
www.orpheus.org.uk
Aims to use music and the performing arts as a vehicle for self-development by offering young people creative experiences through which they will discover and develop new skills, new aspects to themselves and therefore new expectations.
West Sussex
Bern’s Drums and Percussion
www.bernsdrums.co.uk
Take it away retailer and the first dedicated percussion shop in West Sussex.
Ackerman Music - Crawley
www.ackermanmusic.co.uk
Take it away retailer, stocking a range of instruments plus a large selection of sheet music and accessories.
Ackerman Music - Chichester
www.ackermanmusic.co.uk
Take it away retailer, stocking a range of instruments plus a large selection of sheet music and accessories.
Mike’s Music
www.mikesmusic.co.uk
Take it away store which specialises in new and pre-owned instruments, available for rental and purchase. Offer comfortable sound-proofed and air conditioned personal testing studios.
South East-Wide
Rhythmix
www.rhythmix.org.uk
Rhythmix is a youth music project staging music workshops for young people. From DJ to Samba, Rock to World, they can help you to create your own sound and style.
Music Fusion
www.musicfusion.org.uk
Music Fusion runs programmes of music activity for 0 to 18 year olds in Fareham, Gosport, Havant & Portsmouth. They provide information about careers in music, other music projects and events and run a young people's consultancy group. Also offer training for adults working in related professions to deliver music.
Carousel
www.carousel.org.uk
Run arts projects aimed at inspiring people with learning disabilities to achieve their artistic ambitions.
DaDa-South
www.dada-south.org.uk
Dada-South is the South-East’s thriving Disability Arts Development Agency, raising the profile of Deaf and Disabled artists in the region and creating new and exciting opportunities, to accelerate Deaf and Disabled people’s careers in the Arts.
Making Music, South East
www.makingmusic-southeast.org.uk
If you would like to know about a music group, or are thinking of joining one, their website will give you a great starting point.
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