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Monday 23 Dec 2024

This December our musical roadshow Mail a Musician was back, as we visited memory cafes and community centres across the city.

Four energetic bands brought special live performances to people suffering with memory loss and mental health issues, as well as their families and carers.

This initiative, which we started during lockdown in 2020, enables the people of Bristol to send a unique gift of live music to the special people in their life.

This month we worked with Bristol Dementia Action Alliance to organise visits to Avonmouth Community Centre, Cotswold Community Centre, Sea Mills Methodist Church and Milestone Trust Home on Cranbrook Road.

Delighted audiences were treated to Christmas classics in a gypsy-jazz style from the Cesarz Tabor duo, classic swing jazz from The Old Bone Band, calypso reggae from Artuba and classic karaoke sing-alongs from guitar/piano duo TJ.

Photography by Jessie Myers & Giulia Spadafora

Mail a Musician

Mail A Musician intends to lift the spirits of Bristol residents by bringing the joy of live music direct to their hearts and homes.

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I usually don’t enjoy music – because of my dementia I don’t like loud noises – but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It helped taking lots of breaks and being able to talk to the musicians”

Audience member, Avonmouth Memory Café

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Fantastic – I haven’t been able to have a dance in so long, I don’t want to go home!”

Audience member

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“I’ve seen people who don’t usually talk at these sessions talking to the young children and singing along to their music. As soon as the kids came in and the music started, I saw lots of faces light up”

Memory Café Worker

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At the last performance, we saw Peter sing for the first time. When I told his daughter Peter was singing, she brought him here again so she could see it for herself!”

– Memory Café Worker