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All-star concert at Palladium to raise funds for the BRIT School
The BRIT School, the country’s leading performing and creative arts state school, has entered into a partnership for The Other Songs Live, being staged at one of the world’s most famous theatres, The London Palladium, on Tuesday, May 19. Tickets … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music
Tagged Adele, Grammys, Lola Young, Loyle Carner, Olivia Dean, Oscars, Raye, Selhurst, Stuart Worden, The BRIT School, The BRITS, The Kooks, Tom Holland
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Brit School celebrates its made-in-Croydon Grammys hat-trick
News just in from Hollywood: former Brit School pupils have scooped the Grammys. The Brit School had a trio of Grammy winners in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Olivia Dean, Lola Young and FKA twigs, former pupils at the specialist … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Dance, Education, Music, Raye, Schools, Selhurst
Tagged Adele, Brit Awards, Brit School, FKA twigs, Grammys, Lola Young, Olivia Dean, Raye, Selhurst, Stuart Worden
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Jessie J backs BRIT appeal as school is rated ‘Outstanding’
After its first inspection for 10 years, Ofsted say the performing arts school in Selhurst has its pupils “set up for success” The BRIT School is outstanding. Well, we already knew that the performing arts-focused secondary in Selhurst, the place … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Education, Schools
Tagged Adele, Amy Winehouse, Jessie J, Josh Berger, Raye, Selhurst, The BRIT School, Tom Holland
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Stolen car and missing notebooks could delay Raye’s album
Croydon’s chart-topping singer Raye has issued a public appeal – after her car was stolen together with notebooks containing precious lyrics for her next album. Earlier this year, Raye – Rachel Keen when she was when a child at Coulsdon … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Raye, Woodcote High
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Raye, The BRITS
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Raye platforms her new single with live gig on Selhurst Station
Raye yesterday gave a surprise performance on a platform at Selhurst Station, to the delight and bewilderment of passing commuters. Selhurst Station is just a short walk from where the multi-BRIT award-winning singer songwriter went to school in her teens … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Raye, Selhurst
Tagged Brit School, Raye, Selhurst, Selhurst Station
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Raye’s Coulsdon primary school pleads: ‘Save Our Library!’
There was a huge turn out on World Book Day at Bradmore Green Library in Old Coulsdon this morning to protest against the Tory Mayor’s proposals to close the library. Residents and children are really upset at the threat to … Continue reading
‘Miracles happen’ says Raye as she wins a record 6 Brits
On the night of her greatest acclaim, Raye – Rachel Keen when she was when a child at Coulsdon Primary and pupil at Woodcote High – gave a shout out to Croydon. “Miracles happen,” said the country’s latest, biggest music … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Music, Raye, Woodcote High
Tagged Coulsdon, Croydon, Raye, Rob Beckett, The BRITS
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Rewind: the real story behind Croydon’s rich musical heritage
As an exhibition opens in the Clocktower about the history of music in Croydon, NEIL BENNETT, pictured left, the former BBC News and Croydon Advertiser journalist, asks how the borough has maintained such a strong musical tradition through all its … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Borough of Culture 2023, BRIT School, Fairfield Halls, Museum of Croydon, Music, Selhurst
Tagged Adele, All Of Us Strangers, Amy Winehouse, Andrew Haigh, Beanos, Bill Wyman, David Bowie, Desmond Dekker, Fairfield Halls, Jessie J, Jimi Hendrix, Museum of Croydon, Neil Bennett, Ralph McTell, Raye, Rewind, Stormzy, The BRIT School, The BRITS, The Greyhound, The Rolling Stones, The Star
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BRIT School’s latest partnership looking to be just the job
PPL has announced a three-year partnership with The BRIT School that will see the music licensing organisation become a lead partner of the school’s music careers programme, offering a route into jobs in the music industry, while ensuring that the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adele, Kae Tempest, Phonographic Performance Limited, PPL, Raye, The BRIT School, The Kooks
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