Adrian Knowles @runbass
Freelance bass player in the north: Sound of ‘59 / Colour Of Light @colouroflight1 / Jazz / Folk / Lyricist / Teacher #musiced / Runner / Swimmer / adrianknowlesmusic.com Joined May 2012-
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We are playing at the brilliant @Seven_Arts Fri 9th Jun. Come on down for bluegrass harmonica, songs of protest, dreams & much love 4live music! Tix here: bit.ly/3oDXPrf @ChapelAToday @LeedsGigGuide Thanks for the ace pix @huwcwilliams, @DeardenRobin @WoolpackStudios
Running 50k this Saturday in the Keswick Mountain Festival with Stephen Chawke. Here is the link if you feel like contributing to our fundraising for Dementia UK 🏃 🏃♂️ justgiving.com/fundraising/ad… @KeswickFestival @DementiaUK
Last week's #GSALSpringConcert saw Senior School ensembles, including Choir, Jazz, Folk, Strings, Big Band and many more, come together to create an unforgettable show - and emotions were high as we bid farewell to our talented Y13 musicians. #BeInspired #PuttingArtsCentreStage
#GSALPrimary were delighted to welcome musical guests Shrikant Subramaniam and Oli Tunmer of @BeatGoesOnUK to today's #Coronation Celebrations! Along with finest dress, crown-making and an ice cream van visit, it has indeed been a day fit for a king. #BeInspired
More exciting Coronation news from GSAL - Y13 student Fredlin will be performing this Sunday at His Majesty’s #CoronationConcert at Windsor Castle with @thegcfoundation's Reggae Roots choir, as well as featuring in the BBC1 documentary 'Sing for the King' airing tonight at 8pm!
Last week, Y5 and 6 pupils were treated to two wonderful performances from the Senior School Chamber Orchestra - Mendelssohn's Dance of the Clowns and Verdi's Anvil Chorus! #GSALYearOfCulture #PuttingArtsCentreStage #BeInspired
Thanks to everyone @HeadingleyHEART for coming out to see us. Next show @Seven_Arts Friday June 9th @folkandroots #acoustic #roots
A top night last night for MONOCHRONE @ThePolkaHop with our special guests @colouroflight1 They are playing next @HeadingleyHEART on Tuesday and you should check them out for sure. Our next MONO is on June 7th and features special guest @sabrinapiggott
Looking forward to playing with Sound of ‘59 @peggysskylight Saturday 29th April 2023
Thanks to everyone @FoxloweArts @LeekArtsFest for coming out to see us. #carthatmakesabussound #library + more visit youtube.com/watch?vlBWm7Kn…. @jonnyegotrip
Legendary bassist and composer #charlesmingus was born on this day in 1922. Join us to celebrate his 1959 work, along with music from Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck and more. Sound of ‘59 @peggysskylight Saturday 29th April 2023. @JimCorrySax @onyouryogamat @kevholbrough @cazboaden
Sound of ‘59 return to @peggysskylight Nottingham on 29th April 2023 @kevholbrough @JimCorrySax @cazboaden peggysskylight.co.uk/events/sound-o… m.youtube.com/watch?v=3o42ft…
Friday 3rd March we'll be down at the legendary Grove Inn Leeds. @thegroveleeds New Tunes, old Tunes, cold beer, friendly vibes & all the harmonicas you could wish for. See u there Pic thanks 2 @DeardenRobin leedsinspired.co.uk/.../colour-lig… @LeedsInspired @WOI_Leeds #livemusicleeds
Playing @HeadingleyHEART this Tuesday 13/12/22 with these lovely people! @NickiAllan @kevholbrough Rod Mason & John Settle
We're excited to be playing @WoolpackStudios in Otley on Tuesday 6th Dec 7.30 - a small but perfectly formed venue - selling fast - come on down! Tix: tinyurl.com/45yturjt #livemusic #harmonica #blues #folk #otley #acoustic @emilylevymusic @runbass @jonnyegotrip @OtleyLive
Colour Of Light: Over Being Under youtu.be/ONjwsSpD4QY via @YouTube
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Brilliant concert - thanks for bringing it s together!
Thanks to everyone in the sell-out crowd @Seven_Arts @jazz_leeds today!
I don't think anyone else will have noticed, so I'm dropping by to wish myself a happy 30th anniversary. What a Carve Up!, published by Viking Books on 28 April, 1994.
It’s pretty special when one of your Year 11 students composes a piece for organ and you get to record it for GCSE submission. Moments like this make it all worthwhile! Keep going! There is always a highlight somewhere in your day! #MusicEducation
Low ticket warning: our gig in Chapel Allerton tomorrow is almost sold out! @TheGSAL
I’ve known @nikkiiles2 for several years, meeting as a result of our work with the master musician Kenny Wheeler. We’ve played and taught together and just recorded a collection of Kenny’s compositions for choir + Jazz ensemble under the direction of her husband @ChurchillMusic
Back by popular demand @nikkiiles2 returns to #mjf2024 for the second year in a row & this time she's bringing her 20 piece orchestra with her 🎹 📍 @rncmlive 📅 18th May 🎟️ manchesterjazz.com/events/nikki-i…
If you are a music teacher and you are stressed out by the marking, or just anxious about it in any way, then please get in touch. I would hate to think that there are teachers baffled and bamboozled and working on their own! #musicteaching #education Please #RT
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So hope for a great sea-change On the far side of revenge. Believe that further shore Is reachable from here. Believe in miracle And cures and healing wells.
An Israeli Jewish family offering dates to Palestinian Muslim worshippers outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem during an evening in Ramadan. A small yet profoundly meaningful gesture in a time dominated by hatred, dehumanization, and calls for revenge from both sides.
Great to be at our local theatre @TheatreWindsor to see a very innovative and brilliant production of O What a Lovely War. It is great to see such inspiring theatre in your home town! And I love any production where the cast sing, act, dance and play the instruments as well!
6 yrs ago I wrote this protest-poem, Heartwood, for the folk of Sheffield, who were fighting a council tree-massacre in their city (art by Nick Hayes) The poem's since turned up in tree-protests around the world; was bittersweet to hear it spoken recently in Sainikpuri, India.👇
Heartwood by Robert MacFarlane recited by Medha Kohli at the Children’s Park, Sainikpuri. 7 Jan 2024. A public park in the heart of a residential area where trees were brutally chopped! @chevellabanyans @savekapralake @greensainikpuri @Chandras1976 @Hema75944404 @sselvan
Ah, the blessings of the cursed. Shane McGowan’s torrid and mighty voice is mud and roses punched out with swaggering stagger, ancient longing that is blasted all to hell. A Bard’s bard, may he cast his spell upon us all forevermore.
Out again today with my students on Orford Ness, England’s offshore desert, its former nuclear weapons test-site, our untrue island. Late winter light laying the shingle-wrinkles bare. The laboratories in silhouette. Long-lankin shadows lying low. The final sun an atomic burst.
Utter joy on stage! I’ve had a blast this week conducting my 18th musical. 108 students on stage. 7 in the orchestra alongside professionals. Students running lights & backstage. Guys & Dolls 2023 is done!
Currently sat in orchestra rehearsal with 60 students. The real excitement is the student who got their clarinet last night at 15:30 and is here this morning to play. She is in year 9 and wants to learn and be part of something. So exciting! Why isn’t there a clarinet emoji?
Farewell then & good riddance to the least competent, least ecologically literate, least committed, most anti-nature & most river-knackering Environment Secretary since (god help us) Owen Paterson: Therese “the rain came from the wrong direction” Coffey.
TL/DR: 1. Don't multitask 2. Don't preach 3. Use open-ended questions 4. Go with the flow 5. If you don't know, say it 6. Don't equate your experience 7. Don't repeat yourself 8. Avoid the weeds 9. Listen 10. Be interested
Some guy walked off with me pinstripe suit jacket during the Square Chapel gig in Halifax. Bring it back to Square Chapel please.