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A Birmingham music foundation is launching free workshops for wannabe rock stars, to provide amateur musicians a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform in a rock concert. Misfits Music Foundation is inviting music enthusiasts to join them in the Brum Rocks project, and participants don’t need any prior musical experience.
Birmingham’s Frankfurt Christmas Market is once again looking to recruit more than 200 people to support its stalls when it returns to the city centre on 3 November. Organisers of the event are looking to recruit more than 200 staff and also audition musicians for this year’s festive market.
Black Sabbath were today honoured on the Westside BID’s Walk of Stars; Birmingham’s equivalent to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Band member Tony Iommi received the honour presented by Lady Mayoress Yvonne Mosquito with guests including local comedian Jasper Carrott and the family of Iommi.
Urban music channel SBTV was in Birmingham’s Custard Factory in Digbeth today, for an all-day interactive music and multimedia pop-up experience. Billed as an “SBTV takeover”, the popular entertainment platform was fully engaged and in swing as local artists performed music sets, freestyles and dropped bars, as the online brand streamed and captured the day’s activities in real time.
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG) and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, part of Birmingham City University, are launching the UK’s first year-long study programme to train and prepare musicians to perform and promote contemporary classical music. Open to post-graduate musicians currently enrolled in a course of study, or to professional musicians wanting to improve their knowledge and skills in…
It’s an ensemble too good to be true but an rock supergroup formed by Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper is heading to Birmingham Genting Arena this summer. As The Hollywood Vampires announce a run of four huge tour dates in the UK, opening at Birmingham’s Genting Arena, the band’s current main members – Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and…
As far as top entertainment talent hailing from Birmingham is concerned, the city is a gift that just keeps on giving. Don’t believe us? You’d only have to check the IMDB resumes of Felicity Jones, David Harewood, Julie Walters and Scott Adkins; or the discographies of Ozzy Osborne, The Streets, UB40, Judas Priest and Steel Pulse to know…