Youth Music Charity, London | Kinetika Bloco

Legacy band at Lincoln Jazz Festival
2024-07-20 14:00 - 15:30 UTC | Lincoln Cathedral, Minster Yard, Lincoln, LN2 1PX, United Kingdom
We are taking the Legacy Band up to Lincoln with us and they will be performing in the Lincoln Jazz festival as well. They are in the Chapter House sharing some of the tracks from the album with some of the alumni and some of our current members sitting in for those who are missing.
You have to book tickets for this event

Kinetika Bloco parade at Lincoln Jazz Festival
2024-07-20 12:30 - 13:30 | Lincoln Cathedral, Minster Yard, Lincoln, LN2 1PX, United Kingdom
Join us in Lincoln as we create a parade with Kinetika Bloco and children from some local schools to perform in the Lincoln Jazz Festival. The parade will be a free event as part of the festival and you’ll catch us in the grounds of the Cathedral.
You do not need to book tickets for this event.

Happy Streets Festival
2024-07-06 12:40 - 14:40 | St. George’s Primary School, Corunna Road, London, SW8 4JS
Wandsworth Bloco will be performing at the Happy Streets Festival! It’s a one-day fantastic, free and fun festival for all the family across various venues around Nine Elms including live music, circus, crafts and activities, pizza-making and outdoor live performances. We’re super excited! Catch us at 12:40 and 2:40 pm on no other than, the main stage.
Find out more about Happy Streets festival here – HAPPY STREETS FESTIVAL

Foxy Fridays - for our alumni
2024-06-28 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-06-21 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-06-14 19:30 - 21:30, 2024-06-07 19:30 - 21:30 | Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
We are gathering our alumni together to celebrate Mat Fox’s legacy on the 10 year Anniversary since his passing. If you used to be in the Bloco don’t miss out on the chance to come back, join your friends in drumsquad, dance or brass and re-learn a Bloco Banger. Each evening will have drinks and all proceeds will go to our work with the current generation!
Sign up on the Join Us page to get all the details

T100 Festival Performance
2024-06-22 12:00 - 14:00 | Grays Town Park, Gray's Town Park, RM17 6RB, United Kingdom
Kinetika Bloco will be returning to the T100 Festival in Grays on 22nd June to lead a short parade for the 10 year anniversary of T100. There are lots of events taking place so check out their website for more details and join us at 12pm on the day!
Start: Kilverts Field, RM17 6JT
End: Grays Town Park, RM17 6RB, joining Afro Food Fest

Kinetika Bloco at Meltdown Festival
2024-06-21 18:00 - 18:30 | Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
We will be performing on the outdoor stage at this years Meltdown Festival at Southbank Centre curated by the legend that is Chaka Khan!
We’ll be doing a 30 minute set before Sisters in Dub take to the stage. They are an all-women Reggae sound system collective composed of Danniella Dee, Cherelle Harding and DJ Kat The Katalyst. So come and listen to us and stay for the night!
This is a FREE event and all are welcome

Kinetika Bloco at Expertise Rocks
2024-04-17 18:30 - 22:30 | 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, Shoreditch,, London, E1 6QL, United Kingdom
Following in the footsteps of such events as Law Rocks, Expertise Rocks takes place at 93 Feet East, Shoreditch. Bands formed of experts in their various fields will battle it out again in April, demonstrating their excellence on the stage to a panel of illustrious judges, and a sell-out audience.
We are delighted that the event will once again be raising money for us and all proceeds will go towards funding Junior Summer School! We will also be performing a couple of numbers at the event so if you’d like to get yourself a ticket then please come down and support us.

CMA Easter Course
2024-04-11 10:00 - 15:00 | CMA, Oasis Academy Shirley Park, London, CR9 7AL, United Kingdom
We are running a drumming workshop with Sam Agard at the CMA Easter Course. Croydon Music and Arts will be hosting us on 11th April. The workshop is open for young people ages 11-18 and it will be a fun day of drumming. The course is organised by CMA so you need to register on their website. Cost for the day is £20 or £5 subsidised places.

Public workshop at LPO Funharmonics GOAL!
2024-03-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
We are delivering some drumming and dance workshops at the London Philharmonic Funharmonics event. Come and join us before the performance for a dance and drumming workshop. The workshops are drop in and free to access. Bring your friends and family along.

Kinetika Bloco perform at Cultures of London celebration event
2024-02-15 17:45 - 20:30 | The Macmillan Hall, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom
A small Kinetika Bloco band will be perfomring at this event which is the celebration of a book called Cultures of London: Legacies of Migration. The book is authored by one of our Bloco Mums. It celebrates the origin as the Roman city of Londinium through to its latest incarnation as a super-diverse World City in the twenty-first century, London’s history and culture has been shaped by migration. The Bloco will perform a couple of numbers at the event and if you want to come along and also find out more about the book then get yourself a ticket on the link below.

We Are Bloco: Pan Takeover
2024-02-09 19:00 - 22:30 | LCCM, 241, Union Street, London, SE1 0LR, United Kingdom
Join us for a very special night of live music, fundraising for a once in a lifetime trip to Cape Town!
South African music has been a staple at Bloco since 2001, with songs like ‘Homecoming’ and ‘African Marketplace’ becoming KB classics over the years. In 2015, we were introduced to Little Giants, a Cape Town based grassroots music organisation who work with young people. This connection resulted in some of the Little Giants crew coming to London to perform at the Roundhouse with us. Inspired by the collaboration, we’ve been looking for an opportunity to work together again, so were really excited when they invited us to perform at Cape Town Carnival with them.
This fundraiser will get Bloco one step closer to getting a group of 30 of us out there!
Headlining the show, Bloco’s steelpan section will be taking over the night for an exclusive performance celebrating Trinidad & Tobago’s annual steelpan competition, Panorama. Expect to hear sweet melodies, contagious grooves and rhythms that will make you dance!
Also performing Where’s Rei? and DJ Mys Souljah
Prizes to be won at our auction and raffle.
Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult.

Samba with Shay
2023-12-15 17:00 - 22:00 | Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Join us for a Samba Session with Shay. You don’t need any experience, just come along, have some fun, learn some rhythms and have a drink.

Tulse Hill Bloco Christmas Performance
2023-12-13 17:00 - 22:00 | Jubilee Community Hall, Tulse Hill Estate, SW2 2LY, SW2 2LY, United Kingdom
Join us for our Christmas performance where we celebrate the hard work put in by the young people who attend our afterschool club.
Cost:
It’s FREE
Extra information:
There is no need to sign up just turn up and join us!
