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‘Reopen these youth clubs’: Ezra Collective’s Femi Koleoso on nurturing young artistic talent
Drummer and band leader used Brits awards stage to spotlight clubs that help musicians like himself to thrive
At the Jubilee Youth Club in Enfield, north London, where he volunteers, the drummer and band leader was trying to teach kids how to flip pancakes, dealing with flying batter and banter only 48 hours after he was on stage in front of thousands. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The GuardianHe cites the example of Arsenal’s football academy and the Lee Valley Athletics Centre, which was built in the lead-up to the London Olympics in 2012 and was state of the art. Ezra Collective also practised together at the Southbank Centre’s Kinetika Bloco, a long-running youth music charity that introduces children to brass, woodwind, steel pan and other instruments.
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