Partners
Harriet has toured extensively both nationally and internationally with the Paraorchestra +Friends on their flagship project The Nature of Why. An orchestra for the 21st century, Paraorchestra and Friends is reinventing the traditional classical ensemble with professional disabled and non-disabled artists creating dynamic energy-fuelled performances. Other projects which Harriet is involved with include Minimalism Changed My Life: Tones Drones and Arpeggios and an upcoming edition of Anatomy of the Orchestra.
SOUND WORLD
is a newly formed charity running concert series, education projects, a commissioning programme and outreach schemes. Our maxim – Great music for everyone – reflects our commitment to the highest artistic and educational standards and also our determination to take live classical music and the best contemporary repertoire to new, diverse audiences.
Live Music Now works with a very diverse range of people that rarely, if ever, have the opportunity to experience live music - some of whom are very disadvantaged. They often face difficulties in communicating, cut off from the joy and pleasures of participating and sharing with others. LMN's approach to overcoming these barriers is through the quality of our musicians and the way we deliver our music. Harriet performs through Live Music Now with Spindle Ensemble and Alex Garden and has performed extensively in residential homes and SEN schools across the country.
Harriet composed and performed the music for their recent project, Plink and Boo, and which toured UK in 2018/19. It was also devloped into an online version of the show in 2020 called Play-Along Plink and Boo.
Some might be Plink and others are Boo
Why does it matter, what’s the to-do?
Jumbled up people and boxes too small
Come play in our den and discover it all...
Welcome to the topsy turvy world of Plink and Boo. Using acrobatics, live music and mountains of toys, join us in an interactive circus theatre adventure to explore what happens when people don’t fit into boxes (even if it is the neatest place to put them).
Plink and Boo has been created by Can’t Sit Still in collaboration with children, parents and childcare professionals from Bristol and Swindon.
Plink and Boo was developed in 2017, and toured nationally to theatres, libraries, village and town halls between 2018-2019. It was performed 62 times in 21 venues, playing to over 2500 people.
To create this show we worked with a team of 21 people, including performers, set builders, child psychologist and graphic designers, generating over 300 days of paid freelance work.
A Bristol-based collective of musicians and bands including Tezeta and Spindle Ensemble as well as many others.
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photo credits to Alex Jeffris
Harriet works with the participation department running percussion workshops and coaching sessions for young people and is a member of BSO Bash, education percussion group.
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