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Mix Nights Online: Creating Community through DJing & Radio w/ Tina Edwards
30th July 2024
7.30 pm BST
£8.30 of free for Sustainer & Soulmate members (bursaries available)
Saffron, in collaboration with Audio-Technica, are pleased to present a three-month series of online vinyl DJ workshops for women, trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming people worldwide.
CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH DJING & RADIO
Do you want to reach people with underground music that you think will resonate with them? In this workshop, DJ, broadcaster and music journalist Tina Edwards will be sharing honest and intimate advice on how to make a positive impact on the music community around you. As a DJ who plays broadly but is also recognised heavily for playing jazz, she’ll share how to play to both niche and broad audiences. Together with Tina we will cover:
- Establishing your values and what you want to contribute to your scene
- Benefits of building a vinyl collection
- Bringing unexpected sounds/genres to the forefront
- How to play music in your sets that doesn’t lend itself to mixing
- How to build a positive community of DJs around you
- Building your online presence
Other sessions in this series are hosted by Darcy Archer (23 May) and NikNak (24 June). Click here to view the full lineup.
ABOUT TINA
Tina Edwards is a DJ at the forefront of the UK Jazz explosion. In the wake of Ezra Collective’s historic Mercury Prize win, it’s time for Jazz to dominate on the dancefloor—and her 150,000 + Instagram followers know it. Having been a vocal pioneer of the UK scene for a decade, Tina proves that jazz and club culture are perfect partners.
WIth contagious energy and deep music knowledge – from West African groove and latin-house to 00’s Italo Jazz – Tina’s sets are never predictable. She performs across the UK and has played in Paris, Berlin, Hamburg, Chicago and LA, all as an independent artist. She’s shared line-ups with Gilles Peterson, Colleen Murphy, Coco Maria, Scarlett O Malley, Delfonic, Rebecca Vasmant, Poly-Ritmo and more.
Tina hosts multi-genre new music show Next Big Thing on British Airways as well as her self-titled monthly residency on Soho Radio—not to mention the occasional Bandcamp Weekly. As one of Worldwide FM’s longest serving residents, Tina launched the popular breakfast show WW Daily, and hosted extra shows: EZH and Universal Sanctuary. In 2022 she presented the TV documentary JAZZ UK : Spitting Fire which aired on BBC One and BBC Four – testament to the fact that Tina is a trusted broadcaster and tastemaker. As a curator, she heads up Queer Jazz, promoting LGBTQIA+ talent in the jazz community, and re:sonate, programming far-reaching line-ups with fellow tastemaker, Tim Garcia.
Soundcloud // Spotify // Instagram // Twitter // Facebook
ACCESS
Access to these sessions is free for sustainer & soulmate tier members of Saffron’s online community, Saffron Members Club. Membership provides access to regular online workshops, an online community space, video masterclasses, free music tech tools, discounts and much more.
We never want money to be a barrier to people accessing music tech, so if you are unable to afford a ticket but believe you would benefit from attending these workshops, please email us on members@saffronmusic.co.uk. We also have some funded memberships available for those in positions of financial hardship
Workshops are open to people worldwide, but will be running at 7.30 pm BST so please bear differences in time zone in mind. If you purchase a ticket but are unable to attend live, you will automatically be emailed a recording of the workshop(s) after the event.
We are committed to making our online events as accessible as possible. We have created a guidance document about this – Click here to view the accessibility document. Alternatively, please email us with any access requirements you may have: members@saffronmusic.co.uk
GENDER POLICY
The gender imbalance in the music technology industry is well-recognised. While we are absolutely not ‘anti-men’, we see that a shorter-term solution is to provide fellowship and learning environments that are not dominated by the cisgender male perspective. Therefore, these workshops are intended for women, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming people to attend. While we do not ban cisgender men from attending, we hope that they will respect that this event is not intended for them.
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