Electric Umbrella

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Electric Umbrella is a registered charity challenging the perception about people with learning disabilities and enriching and empowering lives through music. 

Based in Hertfordshire and currently working across the county, we are combating social isolation by facilitating regular, meaningful social interaction for our adult members with learning disabilities as well as promoting self-confidence and independence. To do this we run regular music workshops and our Big Yellow Choir.

People with learning disabilities work alongside professional musicians to lead everything that we do, and we challenge the perceptions of our audiences at our gigs, shows, festivals, schools tours, and with single and album releases, radio and TV interviews and online content.

Music is our vehicle, yet aside from all the therapeutic and educational benefits of our sessions we are providing purpose, a sense of worth and a sense of belonging for some of society's most misrepresented and vulnerable people. We’re striving for a world where everything is a little more ‘Electric Umbrella’. 

Magic happens when people with learning disabilities and professional musicians work shoulder to shoulder. It’s about discovering and showing who people really are. It’s about achieving incredible things together. It’s about adapted instruments, being absolutely focused on the individual, making extraordinary adjustments, and it being perfectly acceptable that sometimes it takes three people to play a cello! 

View my website http://www.electricumbrella.co.uk/

My Location

Hertfordshire

Telephone: 07452 806 517
Email: info@electricumbrella.co.uk
Website: http://www.electricumbrella.co.uk/

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Electric Umbrella Presents...THE BIG SHOW! / <span itemprop="startDate" content="2017-05-18T00:00:00Z">Thu 18 May 2017</span>Electric Umbrella Presents...THE BIG SHOW! / Thu 18 May 2017

Everyone is invited to Electric Umbrella presents…The Big Show. Enjoy an evening of performances by incredible people who are taking to the stage to prove that having a learning disability isn’t a barrier to creating ...

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Electric Umbella TV / <span itemprop="startDate" content="2020-07-31T00:00:00Z">Fri 31 Jul 2020</span>Electric Umbella TV / Fri 31 Jul 2020

ELECTRIC UMBRELLA TV - a new internationally accessible daily show for and featuring adults with learning disabilities with 4 hours of FREE interactive music content each day. Stay connected throughout the day with progr...

Try Smiling Family Shows / <span itemprop="startDate" content="2020-03-28T00:00:00Z">Sat 28 Mar 2020</span>Try Smiling Family Shows / Sat 28 Mar 2020

THE ELECTRIC UMBRELLA - TRY SMILING - FAMILY SHOWS. We've listened to what parents have been saying... “… we love EU shows and we KNOW that our kids would LOVE them too… but they are always in the evening…” Clair...

Try Smiling Schools Tour / <span itemprop="startDate" content="2020-07-21T00:00:00Z">Tue 21 Jul 2020</span>Try Smiling Schools Tour / Tue 21 Jul 2020

Book a Tour Date for your School "You know when our pupils have had a good time, they can't hide it in their faces or hold back from telling everyone about it. The Electric Umbrella shows are fun filled, musical ext...

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Challenging the perception of people with learning disabilities by empowering and enriching lives through music. To find out more, make a donation or get involved please visit www.electricumbrella.co.uk Registered ...