Emergence Jazz line up 30th June, 15th September and 23rd November

EMERGENCE June 30th 2019

NU Sounds are emerging…
13 June 2019

presents…

30TH JUNE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 23RD NOVEMBER
3PM – 10PM
The Cockpit, Gateforth St, NW8 8EH

£8 advance, £10 on door

http://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/emergence

Nu London Jazz all dayer for musicians, sonic artists, producers, cross-arts collaborators and audiences

Produced and Presented by The Cockpit /Jazz In The Round

Presenting: JUNGLE BROWN + CLARA SERRA LOPEZ (LUDI’S EYE) + MA + JACK FOSTER (DJ)

Emergence happens in the round – and with the seats taken out. It offers a time and a space for players, artists and audiences to come together around a standing, dance-friendly all dayer event where we can meet, experiment and make the right mistakes. Come through…

SUNDAY 30TH JUNE – LINE UP
With Jungle Brown, Jack Foster (DJ), Clara Serra López and MA

Jungle Brown – presented by Lyrix Organix

Jungle Brown drop their Tribe Called Quest-esque sound with future rap, adorned with a smooth sax line from UK jazz all-star, Ayo Yung Afrika Pyoneer, and backing vocals from Jungle Brown’s own producer, Tony Bones.

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Empowering a generation of female music producers

Empowering a generation of female producers Town Hall Symphony Hall and Cubepresent a FREE six week music production course with Emmavie.

Earlier this year, Town Hall Symphony Hall and CUBE presented a six week music production course designed for female producers from Birmingham.

A recent report titled Inclusion in the Recording Studio – the second annual report from Professor Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative to investigate the music industry – highlighted that only 2 percent of producers across 400 songs were female. For producers, this translates into a gender ratio of 47 males to every one female.

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Stargazer Russell Grant to play the main lead in the musical Hairspray

He is best known as a stargazer but as he prepares to tread the boards in the musical Hairspray, Russell Grant reveals his first love was always the stage.

Theatre-trained Russell, 68, who undergoes a dramatic transformation to play Edna Turnblad, said that acting is “where my heart is, it’s my passion”.

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Man sentenced for over £500,000 of karaoke copyright offences

Man sentenced for over £500,000 of karaoke copyright offences
This press release is from City of London Police

Steve Mather, 63, of Beaufort Street, Rochdale, Lancashire, has been sentenced to eight months suspended at Manchester Crown Court. He pleaded guilty to copyright offences for illegally creating and distributing karaoke tracks online without permission. Digitop have estimated their loss to be £485,000, while Sunfly Karaoke Ltd’s loss is projected to be £29,593.50

In 2015, the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) received a referral from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) when one of their members, Digitop Ltd, became aware of online accounts called KaraokeRG and Karaokekid. These accounts were making torrented karaoke tracks available to the public without permission from the rights holders, Digitop and Sunfly Karaoke Ltd.

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