New Places Now Available
A recent change to activities on offer and equipment investment now mean the group is able to offer a significantly higher number of places for children aged 7-14, but best of all All instruments are available for use free of charge.
We offer the opportunity to:
• learn a brass or percussion instrument
• perform and compete throughout the UK and Europe
• make new friends and be part of a great supportive community
• learn about teamwork and dedication
• high quality sessions run by trained music teachers and skilled members from our adult programme that have studied and taught across the UK and abroad.
Email info@knightsacademy.org.uk for more information.
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Successful Fundraising of Christmas 2015
With Christmas of 2014 being close upon us members, both old and new, of all units of the Knights Academy of Music and Performing Arts have been out and about both promoting the organisation and raising monies to help us further our offering of a 21st Century performing arts education.
The organisation has received over £2,580 in donations by participating in the festivities, with over £800 being raised by No Limit Street Band, which contains a high proportion of its performers from the Knights Academy’s Alumni.
The organisation would like to thank everyone that has made donations for our performances, and we look forward to seeing you at future events over the coming years.
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The Knights Percussion Ensemble
The Knights Academy of Music and Performing Arts are pleased to announce the launch of The Knights Percussion Ensemble!
This is the perfect opportunity to learn some new skills/techniques, or even a completely new instrument if you fancy a change!
We will be using different musical styles and a variety of percussive instrumentation to make some fun performance pieces for everyone to enjoy.
The launch date is Sunday 11th January at the Knights HQ! Everyone is welcome, regardless of ability/age!
If you are interested in coming along or would like to know more, feel free to get in touch through the contact us section.
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The Knights Academy Marches on with Support of D’Addario, Evans and Promark
The Knights Academy are pleased to announce the continuation of their Artist Deal with D’Addario UK for 2015.
Previously the agreement has been used by Black Knights Drum & Bugle Corps but the deal will now also be to the benefit of our new Knights Percussion Ensemble program that is launching in January.
Percussion Project Co-ordinator Vicky Lingham said “The opportunity to offer the members high quality equipment is paramount to its development and success. Having used the products myself during my marching career, I am very happy to have D’addario supplying this range of products”
During the years we have been working with D’Addario, we have been very pleased with their stock availability and lead times and would recommend any percussive organisation to check out their products through the link attached
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2014 Show Announcement
Black Knights present London Calling.
The corps will present 4 movements representing 4 unique perspectives of our nations capital.
Returning to a tried and tested formula and one that developed the corps calling card of crowd pleasing productions the corps will be using a wide selection of popular music including music by Emeli Sande and the Jam as well as music from West End productions and draw visual inspiration from the wealth of imagery that London provides.
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