Stoked to be playing at the TCS London Marathon again this Sunday 🏅
Catch us at the start line from 8:30am, serving up some musical motivation for the runners - tune in on BBC One 📺

Meet Athena🎻, multi-genre violinist from South West London. Athena’s been playing with us for the past three years, so what’s her favourite thing about BCO? We’re the only orchestra she’s played with that can improvise a full on orchestral arrangement at the drop of a hat 👀😏

BCO STRING QUARTET
stepping out 👀

This Sunday's The Effra Hall Tavern gig is a percussion jam with Andre Johnson, Ben Quilter and Kia Lares 🥁

You know the drill guys. 7pm, free entry - see you there 👉

📣 Brockwell Music Trail 📣

📅 Sun 12th May
📍 Brockwell Park
🕜3pm-7pm
🆓 Free Entry

We're hiding 9 groups of musicians across Brockwell Park for you to find! Grab a map, start the adventure, and later enjoy a concert.

Find out more and sign up via link in bio 🔗

Behind the Melodies: Stories from BCO

Meet Derryck, a born and bred South Londoner who’s been playing the French Horn with BCO since the beginning. His highlight from his time with BCO? Rocking Peckham Levels with disco tunes this NYE for over 1000 people! 🪩

Flashback to a couple weeks ago when we took over Brixton Rec’s 3G Football Pitch⚽ for a sold out concert of classical and Irish tunes 🎻

Big thanks to Brixton Performs and Brixton BID
for helping make it happen!

Introducing Ben, BCO’s principal percussionist/drummer 🥁. From Scarborough to the streets of London, he first joined BCO for our 2022 Summer Estates Tour. His favorite jam? Overture SW2 from our 2023 Christmas Estates Tour – I mean, who could forget that drum solo? 🤯

Grime Orchestrated is back, and this time we’re at The fox and firkin 🎤
4 rappers backed by a 16-piece orchestra.
17th May, 22.00 - See you there 👋👀👉
Grab your tickets via the link in our bio 🔗

Meet JESSE FRANCIS, our dynamic Violist with a twist! After playing viola with the orchestra for the past three years, Jesse has started bringing his rap career into the mix, stepping out of the orchestra to freestyle 🎤

Let's give a huge shoutout to our partners at equip event services. These guys have been the backbone of our tech setup since 2020. All the lighting, sound equipment and staging you see at our gigs is thanks to their expertise and support. Big thanks for always coming through! 🙌

Throwback to summer 2021 when we took over Stockwell Park's Hall of Fame for a Grime Orchestrated event and invited emerging grime artists and MC's. Keep your eyes peeled - Grime Orchestrated is coming back 👀

🎤 King Miller
🎤 Michael. 🇸🇱
📹 Michael Burgher

Meet Teigan, another of our talented youth players! He joined BCO in 2021 at the age of 15 after seeing our Street Band play past his house in Brixton. He reached out to Matt, our Artistic director, and was called up to do a show a few days later – he’s been a key member since 🔥

Due to popular demand, we've added 40 standing tickets for our @brixtonperforms concert with Brixton BID next Saturday. Cheers for the support, guys 🙌

Admission is free, but donations are welcome. Link in bio 🔗

This Sunday, we're back at The Effra Hall Tavern, and this time we're bringing you a string quartet led by Maddy Dawson featuring Gary Washington, aka TheUrbanCellist🎻
7pm, free entry - Mother's Day pint anyone?

Flashback to the final show of our 2023 Christmas Estates Tour when our Christmas band became an accidental wedding band right outside Lambeth Town Hall – cheers to the happy couple!

Check out Stereolab founder, Laetitia Sadier rocking BCO merch in the latest issue of The Wire Magazine🔥