Youth Music Charity, London | Kinetika Bloco

Out There Arts International Festival
2025-05-30 13:30 - 17:30 UTC | Out There Arts, Out There Arts, The Drill House, York Rd,, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 2LZ, United Kingdom
Kinetika Bloco are performing for the first time in Norfolk at Out There Arts International Festival. We will be doing a parade leaving Drill Hall at 4pm and working our way down to the beach.
We will also be doing a drumming workshop for the public in the Beach of Dreams area 1.30-2.30pm. Come down and join us.

EFG London Jazz Festival
2024-11-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre / The Clore Ballroom, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Catch us as part of ‘The Big Easy’ at EFG London Jazz Festival 2024 for a New Orleans inspired performance!
No tickets needed, it’s FREE!

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.

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 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.

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!
