Jo Towler
@jotowlerwareham.bsky.social
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Chief Executive, Music in the Round. Horn player. Cornet player. Yorkshire lass.
Running
@musicintheround.bsky.social
is fab, but outside of work I also get to do fab things, like play to thousands of people at Tramlines Festival...!
2 months ago
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Interesting afternoon with colleagues from
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
with a 'Creative Industries Engaging with Parliament and Policy Makers' training session. Let's make our voices and
@musicintheround.bsky.social
's heard in London!
3 months ago
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Day in London in this place for @musicintheround for a roundtable with the Minister of State for DCMS, Chris Bryant, colleagues from
@aborchestras.bsky.social
and other key classical organisations, making the case for the sector, its success and impact, and our needs. Good discussion!
3 months ago
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At the launch of Sheffield Creative Academy with
@sheffcolangela.bsky.social
- linking young creative talented people at Sheffield College with the cultural sector. Here's to a bright future!
#sheffcolcreates
3 months ago
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Want to come and join me and other fab people
@musicintheround.bsky.social
? We're recruiting for a Development Manager and a National Projects Manager:
musicintheround.co.uk/music-in-the...
musicintheround.co.uk/music-in-the...
Sheffield is the place to be!
#sheffieldissuper
#thisischambermusic
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Music in the Round seeks a new National Projects Manager
Music in the Round -
https://musicintheround.co.uk/music-in-the-round-seeks-a-new-national-projects-manager/
4 months ago
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Fab 5-star review of one of our early morning events in
@musicintheround.bsky.social
Sheffield Chamber Music Festival.
bachtrack.com/review-ensem...
We're having a lot of fun here in Sheffield in the sunshine, and so are our sell-out audiences!
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Bach at Breakfast: Ensemble 360 serve up a Goldberg feast
A concert at 07:30 am? In a cemetery chapel? It must be the Sheffield Chamber Music Festival!
https://bachtrack.com/review-ensemble-360-bach-goldberg-variations-sheffield-chamber-music-festival-may-2025
5 months ago
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Wonderfully mesmerising evening of astonishing music-making from
@dameevelynglennie.bsky.social
, Jill Jarman and friends to bring Day 2 of the @MusicintheRound Sheffield Chamber Music Festival to a brilliant close!
5 months ago
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Wonderful start to @musicintheround 2025 Sheffield Chamber Music Festival last night, celebrating 20 years of Ensemble 360! Today family concert, Janacek musings and music and then the amazing
@dameevelynglennie.bsky.social
and friends!
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5 months ago
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Celebrating music in Sheffield with lots of creatives -
@musicintheround.bsky.social
just one of many people and groups here. So great to have
@tomhunt100.bsky.social
and Team Culture Sheffield here this morning supporting the sector.
5 months ago
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6 months ago
At last, someone who understands how tariffs are going to make America great again!
xkcd.com/3073/
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We need just £95 of donations in the next hour to hit our £20k fundraising target for our new storybook project for 3-7-year-olds!
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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The Storm Whale: a children’s storybook concert – Big Give
Support our new interactive storybook concert, ‘The Storm Whale’, to engage young people aged 3 to 7 across the country with high-quality music-making, many for the first time. Families and schools wi...
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000001dSrtYAE
6 months ago
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Really chuffed to see
@classicalsheffield.bsky.social
Festival Weekend featured in
@ourfaveplaces.bsky.social
!
ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/cla...
. It's going to be an amazing few days of music across the city!
@hallamsinfonia.bsky.social
,
@musicintheround.bsky.social
and many others.
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Classical Weekend → Our Favourite Places – Sheffield Culture Guide
One big celebration of classical music. With pop-up performances in the Winter Garden and Leah's Yard, a workshop for kids in the Musical Pocket Park, a celebration of the musical history of miners, a...
https://ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/classical-weekend/
7 months ago
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Very excited to have played with Crookes Brass Band today at my first ever Yorkshire Areas!
7 months ago
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Listening to
@tomhunt100.bsky.social
at the South Yorkshire Culture Creatives event at The Showroom. We need to keep dreaming BIG - and we are
@musicintheround.bsky.social
with our Harmony Works partners!
7 months ago
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Lovely piece about former
@musicintheround.bsky.social
team member
@tommckinney.bsky.social
as he takes on a new role on
@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social
:
www.classical-music.uk/features/art...
. We had some fun times with Tom!
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Getting to know the new voice of Breakfast on Radio 3
Guitarist and presenter Tom McKinney sits down with Clare Stevens ahead of his induction to talk birding, broadcasting and the daunting task of taking over from Petroc Trelawny
https://www.classical-music.uk/features/article/getting-to-know-the-new-voice-of-breakfast-on-radio-3
8 months ago
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Wonderful review of the recent
@musicintheround.bsky.social
concert with Ensemble 360 at
@sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social
featuring English composers.
bachtrack.com/review-ensem...
Loads more concerts still to come this spring!
#lovesheffield
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Ensemble 360’s Lark takes wing
Ensemble 360’s Music in the Round concert is a homage to the 20th-century English industrialist Walter Willson Cobbett... and also to the enduring popularity of The Lark Ascending.
https://bachtrack.com/review-ensemble-360-nabarro--lark-ascending-sheffied-february-2025
8 months ago
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And today for @musicintheround I'm at
@sheffielduni.bsky.social
for Muses, Mind, Machine conference, led by Prof Renee Timmers. Another busy day!
8 months ago
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Here in sunny Gateshead for the
#abo2025
conference for @musicintheround. Busy day ahead!
8 months ago
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Disappointing BBC Bargain Hunt today. Apparently Meccano is the ultimate 'boy's toy' and 'best left to the boys'. Seriously. It's 2024 and I LOVED playing with my Meccano. Such stereotypes need to be consigned to history.
10 months ago
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This morning, I represented
@musicintheround.bsky.social
at an event about Sheffield's new Cultural Strategy. Delighted to see
@tomhunt100.bsky.social
, Leader of
@sheffcitycouncil.bsky.social
, talking so passionately about culture in the city.
democracy.sheffield.gov.uk/documents/s7...
10 months ago
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It's that Big Give time of year! We're supporting string playing in our schools at a time when music is being hit by funding cuts, otherwise where will the next generation of music-makers and audiences come from? Any gift welcome... Thank you.
donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
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Inspiring through strings
Where is the next Sheku Kanneh-Mason coming from? Support our Visiting Quartet to expand our work in schools with young people up and down the country, inspiring them to play and learn about string pl...
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a056900002TPSaVAAX
10 months ago
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Really looking forward to seeing and hearing this event
@musicintheround.bsky.social
on 30 November!
nowthenmagazine.com/articles/lea...
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Leafcutter John - "I've built this turntable – you put rocks on it and listen to them"
We sat down with the veteran electronic experimentalist to talk about how his new work for Music in the Round taps into the unheard sonic properties of the Peaks.
https://nowthenmagazine.com/articles/leafcutter-john-ive-built-this-turntable-you-put-rocks-on-it-and-listen-to-them-music-in-the-round-peak-district
11 months ago
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Woke up to this in not-so-sunny-Sheffers. Dusting off the winter coat and cracking on!
11 months ago
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