We had an amazing time in Cologne last week . !7 young musicians from London teamed up with 17 Cologne resident musicians from Koningin Luise Schule. We performed a 75 minute set opening Freedom Sounds Festival . The young people worked together so well and were a great example of how to cooperate, understand , be tolerant , work as a team , listen. We only had 2 rehearsals but the results were impressive. Thanks to Peter Clemm who organised the trip and all the host families in Cologne and the parents from the UK that supported us.

Younger Youthsayers is a new session starting on on Monday April 29th 2019 at Clapham Park Centre from 4.45 to 6pm. If you are a budding musician from the age of 9 to 12 and you would like to try playing with other people your age in a band that explores fun music, the is this session is for you. You will get to chance to learn how to play new music with flavours of afrobeat , reggae and jazz. You will learn how to work as a band and improvise . You will get chance to work with professional musicians from Soothsayers band and members of Youthsayers senior band. Most of all this session will be fun and give you a chance to play music you may not have chance to try before. We need you to be reliable , keen to join in and have a go . We will be working towards a performance so you need to come every Monday. We would like you to have a had a go at an instrument already and be able to play a short tune , rhythm or scale . If you want to take part please email Robin at youthsayers@gmail.com we would love to hear from you. This project is run in conjunction with Lambeth Sounds and will take place at Lambeth Sounds Centre - Clapham Park Centre , Kingswood Rd , SW2 4JP , this is a FREE session and costs nothing.

On 25th November 2018 , Youthsayers printed an amazing performance at The EFG London Jazz Festival as part of the Next Generations Concert that highlighted young and upcoming Jazz talent. We performed a 40 minute set received loads of positive feed back after the show. It was a pleasure to be involved in The London Jazz Festival again and work with event producers Serious.

On 11th November 2018 members of Youthsayers , Raw Material Artists Development and Poets Benna and MGDLN performed at The Imperial War Museum . The artists devised a piece that incorporated poetry and music that depicted their feelings about war and how it related to Remembrance Day and the 100th anniversary of World War 1 Armistice Day. Three performances took place during the day in front of large audiences that were visibly moved by the work.