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Christmas Blow Out – 22nd December 2025

Richard

A huge thank you to everyone who has signed up for our Christmas Blow Out. We have had an unprecedented response and all forty places are currently taken. If you are still interested, you can go ahead and register using our Gold Harmonica and selecting this event, and we will add your name to our waiting list.

Event details
We look forward to playing at Brighton’s Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital this Christmas and raising money for the Rockinghorse appeal. We will be playing two sessions in the Outpatients Waiting Area on the Ground Floor.

Blow Out 1 – 10:00-10:45
Goldstone Primary
Peter Gladwin Primary
Eastbrook Primary Academy
Stanford Junior School
St Nic & St Mary’s Primary (Shoreham)
Swiss Gardens Primary

Blow Out 2 – 11:00-11:45 
Saltdean Primary
St Nic’s CE Primary (Portslade)
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Calling all music makers at Stanford Juniors

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Welcome To Two New Harmonica Schools!

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At Peter Gladwin Primary, Portslade, we have launched our KS1 and KS2 Harmonica Groups on Tuesday afternoons. This compliments our whole class Access to Music programme at the school, where children enjoy a term of graduated harmonica music learning in line with the National Curriculum. If you would like a FREE TASTER, simply click the Gold Harmonica here on our homepage, complete your contact details, and we will send you further details.

At Swiss Gardens Primary, Shoreham-by-Sea, we have launched our Wednesday KS2 After School Club. This marks a return to harmonica music learning with our friends at Swiss Gardens, where we previously collaborated before the Lockdown of 2020-22. If you would like a FREE TASTER, simply click the Gold Harmonica here on our homepage, complete your contact details selecting the FREE TASTER option, and we will send you further details.

Summer Postcard Competition 2025 Winners

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Thank you to everyone who sent in postcards during the summer holidays – we had some amazing entries! Our random generator selected the following three winners and your prizes will be delivered to our first music session of the new term.

1st Place
Eleanor playing in front of Thomas the Tank Engine. Eleanor wins a Special 20 harmonica and Harp Academy mug.

2nd Place
Orson playing in front of some lovely Dutch windmills. Orson wins a Harp Academy mug and mini-harmonica key chain.

3rd Place
Millie and Josh fearlessly playing on a glass balcony in Germany. Both win a Harp Academy mug and mini-harmonica key chain.

Sample Lesson – When The Saints

Richard

I want to be in that number
It’s time to learn some fun jazz on the harmonica and here’s a song everybody will recognise. It’s called When The Saints Go Marching In and it’s from New Orleans, The song has a long name, so we’ll call it The Saints for short.


The Saints started life as an American gospel hymn and it was sung quite slowly. But once the Jazz Bands of New Orleans got hold of it, they soon gave it some swing! Read more