BlueNote/BNWLA on YouTube!

Here is an excellent video made during one of our recent performances by a friend of BlueNote and the BNWLA Hostel Appeal, Mikey Leung. Mikey is a VSO and soon to be author of a new travel book about Bangladesh.

Major fundraising event in September

We are planning a concert for September at the Heritage Restaurant here in Dhaka, aimed at raising 2000 pounds in an evening.

Arnob and Andrew will perform an evening of East Meets West fusion music. The event will be sponsored by Warid Telecom.

Last night was the first collaboration between BlueNote and the film company Future Shorts: an evening of short films and jazz at the Nordic Club. Great atmosphere, candlelight, and some excellent films, not to mention of course the superb music. We're likely to be doing one of these evenings a month now, with all proceeds going to the appeal. As the venue was quite small, and ticket prices were kept low, we made around £20, but it's a start...

Fundraising in the key of F

Great gig last night. Around 90 people there - balmy summer breeze, gins'n'tonics all round. What better setting for the cool sound of BlueNote? And besides, all proceeds from the tickets went to the BNWLA Hostel Appeal, making Tk 27,000 (£200) in one evening. Putting the fun into fundraising...

Thanks to Mikey Leung for the photo. His own website on life in Bangladesh is well worth a visit for excellent photos and writing. You can find him at www.mikeyleung.ca

More musical fundraising

This week BlueNote are playing at the British Expat (BAGHA) Club here in Dhaka. The BAGHA have offered to donate all proceeds from tickets to the appeal. We're grateful for this very kind gesture.















They're also interested in future events which combine jazz and short films, which will come courtesy of Future Shorts, a London-based company with international chapters. Oniket, the local curator, came to know of our appeal and has offered to collaborate with us. Could be very interesting.

Bits'n'bobs

Since Jules arrived in Bangladesh she has been busy networking and following a number of fundraising leads. Ideas so far include approaching garment factories for boxes of seconds for sale at expat events and setting up a benefit gig in the autumn, and a number of people have stepped forward to offer help. All these things bubbling away at the moment. Watch this space.

In the meantime, money continues to come in from BlueNote performances, and the British Expat Club - the BAGHA, has agreed to donate all proceeds from our next week's gig.

Incredible Offers No 3

Our friend Farhad, founder of Ekushey TV, gave us a hundred copies of a coffee-table photography book with stunning pictures of Bangladesh, from his own publishing house. Last night we raffled 3 of them at the latest BlueNote gig and raised £40.