Carol Bowden
@bowders.bsky.social
Musician, trauma informed practitioner, walker, childfree.
https://www.carolbowdenmusic.co.uk/podcast
https://www.carolbowdenmusic.co.uk/podcast
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Blue Cabin's Care-Experienced Consultants challenge, shape and strengthen our work, and help make sure that care-experienced voices are heard.
Here’s Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha with an insight into her first six months in the role.
wearebluecabin.com/latest/what-...
#NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
Here’s Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha with an insight into her first six months in the role.
wearebluecabin.com/latest/what-...
#NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
What it means to be a Care-Experienced Consultant - Blue Cabin
Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha shares her perspective on her time as part of Blue Cabin's team of Care-Experienced Consultants.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Blue Cabin's Care-Experienced Consultants challenge, shape and strengthen our work, and help make sure that care-experienced voices are heard.
Here’s Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha with an insight into her first six months in the role.
wearebluecabin.com/latest/what-...
#NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
Here’s Lucinda Fernandes Marvilha with an insight into her first six months in the role.
wearebluecabin.com/latest/what-...
#NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
Reposted by Carol Bowden
Piercing The Sky is a celebration of artwork and creative writing by care-experienced young artists in HMP Deerbolt and we’re proud to be able to share artworks from it.
You can explore the online exhibition here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/pie... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
You can explore the online exhibition here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/pie... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
Piercing the Sky virtual exhibition - Blue Cabin
Creative Aid is a co-creation project with care-experienced young men in Deerbolt Prison, supporting the young men to be recognised as artists.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Piercing The Sky is a celebration of artwork and creative writing by care-experienced young artists in HMP Deerbolt and we’re proud to be able to share artworks from it.
You can explore the online exhibition here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/pie... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
You can explore the online exhibition here: wearebluecabin.com/resource/pie... #NCLM @becomecharity.org.uk
It's been great working with Blue Cabin to build their bank of free resources. You can find them here!
Want to know more about using music to help young babies and children form attachments and trust? We've created a bank of free resources which you can find here:
wearebluecabin.com/resource/ear...
@bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social
wearebluecabin.com/resource/ear...
@bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social
Early Years Music Making Resources - Blue Cabin
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November 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
It's been great working with Blue Cabin to build their bank of free resources. You can find them here!
Reposted by Carol Bowden
Issue three of Sounding Board, the Journal of Community Music, is out now, and it includes a look at Blue Cabin's use of supervision with creative practitioners.
Take a look: sway.cloud.microsoft/GfcP759XDVV5...
@bowders.bsky.social
Take a look: sway.cloud.microsoft/GfcP759XDVV5...
@bowders.bsky.social
Sounding Board
SOUNDING BOARD
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October 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Issue three of Sounding Board, the Journal of Community Music, is out now, and it includes a look at Blue Cabin's use of supervision with creative practitioners.
Take a look: sway.cloud.microsoft/GfcP759XDVV5...
@bowders.bsky.social
Take a look: sway.cloud.microsoft/GfcP759XDVV5...
@bowders.bsky.social
Get booked! We'd love to see you 😻
🎵 Last chance to book!
Learn how to help babies and children experience the benefits of music-making. Our training day on early years music-making takes place on Monday in Darlington. Have you booked your ticket?🎵
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th... @bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social
Learn how to help babies and children experience the benefits of music-making. Our training day on early years music-making takes place on Monday in Darlington. Have you booked your ticket?🎵
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th... @bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social
This is the Place - A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making
Join Blue Cabin for the day to explore how and why music-making supports attachment and development for babies and children
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September 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Get booked! We'd love to see you 😻
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You can book for this year's training day here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th...
@bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social
@bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social
This is the Place - A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making
Join Blue Cabin for the day to explore how and why music-making supports attachment and development for babies and children
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September 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
You can book for this year's training day here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th...
@bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social
@bowders.bsky.social @youthmusic.bsky.social
Reposted by Carol Bowden
Young men in HMP Deerbolt have been working with artists to create their own exhibition and artists' book. Find out more about their work and share your responses, which will be fed back to the artists.
Find out more and book a place for this free, online event: wearebluecabin.com/latest/pages...
Find out more and book a place for this free, online event: wearebluecabin.com/latest/pages...
Pages of my life: Art, care and conversation - Blue Cabin
A free, online event to explore artworks produced by young men in Deerbolt Prison.
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September 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Young men in HMP Deerbolt have been working with artists to create their own exhibition and artists' book. Find out more about their work and share your responses, which will be fed back to the artists.
Find out more and book a place for this free, online event: wearebluecabin.com/latest/pages...
Find out more and book a place for this free, online event: wearebluecabin.com/latest/pages...
There's still time to book your space for this training opportunity 🎶
Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making 🎶
Monday 22nd September at Theater Hullabaloo in Darlington 🎶
Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making 🎶
Monday 22nd September at Theater Hullabaloo in Darlington 🎶
Our training day will give you practical tips to take away, and will boost your knowledge on the benefits of early years music-making.
Find out more and book your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th...
Find out more and book your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-is-th...
This is the Place - A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making
Join Blue Cabin for the day to explore how and why music-making supports attachment and development for babies and children
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
There's still time to book your space for this training opportunity 🎶
Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making 🎶
Monday 22nd September at Theater Hullabaloo in Darlington 🎶
Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for A Practical Guide to Early Years Music-Making 🎶
Monday 22nd September at Theater Hullabaloo in Darlington 🎶
Reposted by Carol Bowden
September issue of our monthly Bulletin Board newsletter is out now!
- Join the Sound Sense Board
- Musicians with autism research steering group
- Contribute to Sounding Board journal
- Community music training, jobs & resources
Members can log in to read it here: www.soundsense.org/news-and-views
- Join the Sound Sense Board
- Musicians with autism research steering group
- Contribute to Sounding Board journal
- Community music training, jobs & resources
Members can log in to read it here: www.soundsense.org/news-and-views
Sound Sense :: News & Views :: supporting community music
www.soundsense.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
September issue of our monthly Bulletin Board newsletter is out now!
- Join the Sound Sense Board
- Musicians with autism research steering group
- Contribute to Sounding Board journal
- Community music training, jobs & resources
Members can log in to read it here: www.soundsense.org/news-and-views
- Join the Sound Sense Board
- Musicians with autism research steering group
- Contribute to Sounding Board journal
- Community music training, jobs & resources
Members can log in to read it here: www.soundsense.org/news-and-views
Reposted by Carol Bowden
Did you miss our Community Music Now event back in March? Catch up on moments, learnings and perspectives from the two-day event in our latest Sounding Board journal - members can log in and read it here: www.soundsense.org/resources-an...
August 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Did you miss our Community Music Now event back in March? Catch up on moments, learnings and perspectives from the two-day event in our latest Sounding Board journal - members can log in and read it here: www.soundsense.org/resources-an...
Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for some playful music-making, learning, and conversation 🎶
🎵 Would you like to learn how music can support attachment and development in babies and children? We're holding a training day on 22 September in Darlington with musicians Carol Bowden and Katie Doherty.
Book your spot here: wearebluecabin.com/latest/train...
@bowders.bsky.social
Book your spot here: wearebluecabin.com/latest/train...
@bowders.bsky.social
Training day: a practical guide to early years music-making - Blue Cabin
Join Blue Cabin for the day to explore how and why music-making supports attachment and development for babies and children
wearebluecabin.com
August 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Join me and @katiedoherty.bsky.social for some playful music-making, learning, and conversation 🎶
🎉 We're finalists!!! 🎉
Love to This Is The Place team. The talented Katie Doherty, Lucy Ridley, and everyone at the pioneering Blue Cabin
Also the foster carers and young children of Darlington, and Redcar and Cleveland who come every week to sing and make music with us. This is for them 🎶❤️ 🎶
Love to This Is The Place team. The talented Katie Doherty, Lucy Ridley, and everyone at the pioneering Blue Cabin
Also the foster carers and young children of Darlington, and Redcar and Cleveland who come every week to sing and make music with us. This is for them 🎶❤️ 🎶
🎉This is the Place, our early years music-making programme with Darlington Council and Redcar and Cleveland Council, is shortlisted in this year's #CYPNowAwards!🎉
You can see all the brilliant finalists here:
cypnowawards.com/childrenandy... @bowders.bsky.social
You can see all the brilliant finalists here:
cypnowawards.com/childrenandy... @bowders.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
🎉 We're finalists!!! 🎉
Love to This Is The Place team. The talented Katie Doherty, Lucy Ridley, and everyone at the pioneering Blue Cabin
Also the foster carers and young children of Darlington, and Redcar and Cleveland who come every week to sing and make music with us. This is for them 🎶❤️ 🎶
Love to This Is The Place team. The talented Katie Doherty, Lucy Ridley, and everyone at the pioneering Blue Cabin
Also the foster carers and young children of Darlington, and Redcar and Cleveland who come every week to sing and make music with us. This is for them 🎶❤️ 🎶
Reposted by Carol Bowden
In North East England, personalised songs are being created for care-experienced babies and children. Musician Carol Bowden gives an insight into the process of creating these very special compositions.
creativelifestorywork.com/latest/sing-...
@bowders.bsky.social
creativelifestorywork.com/latest/sing-...
@bowders.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
In North East England, personalised songs are being created for care-experienced babies and children. Musician Carol Bowden gives an insight into the process of creating these very special compositions.
creativelifestorywork.com/latest/sing-...
@bowders.bsky.social
creativelifestorywork.com/latest/sing-...
@bowders.bsky.social
Reposted by Carol Bowden
We’re working with Groundswell Arts to roll out their brilliant Sing Our Story project with care-experienced families here in the North East 🎵 Here’s an update on the first songs, from musician Carol Bowden.
wearebluecabin.com/latest/putti...
@youthmusic.bsky.social @bowders.bsky.social
wearebluecabin.com/latest/putti...
@youthmusic.bsky.social @bowders.bsky.social
Putting your heart in a song - Blue Cabin
Here in North East England, personalised songs are being created for care-experienced babies and children. Musician Carol Bowden gives an insight into the process of creating these very special compos...
wearebluecabin.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We’re working with Groundswell Arts to roll out their brilliant Sing Our Story project with care-experienced families here in the North East 🎵 Here’s an update on the first songs, from musician Carol Bowden.
wearebluecabin.com/latest/putti...
@youthmusic.bsky.social @bowders.bsky.social
wearebluecabin.com/latest/putti...
@youthmusic.bsky.social @bowders.bsky.social
It was a joyful, humbling, gorgeous experience to work with the foster carers to write a song about the children. Here's my thoughts if you fancy a short read ❤️
Here in the North East, musicians are working with care-experienced families to produce personalised songs for babies and children to keep.
Here’s Blue Cabin associate artist Carol Bowden with an insight into the songwriting process: wearebluecabin.com/latest/putti...
@bowders.bsky.social
Here’s Blue Cabin associate artist Carol Bowden with an insight into the songwriting process: wearebluecabin.com/latest/putti...
@bowders.bsky.social
Putting your heart in a song - Blue Cabin
Here in North East England, personalised songs are being created for care-experienced babies and children. Musician Carol Bowden gives an insight into the process of creating these very special compos...
wearebluecabin.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
It was a joyful, humbling, gorgeous experience to work with the foster carers to write a song about the children. Here's my thoughts if you fancy a short read ❤️
All 7 episodes of The Community Musician in Conversation are now LIVE on The Community Musician Podcast.
Big thank you to everyone who took part ❤️
You can listen on my website (link in bio), Spotify, Podbean, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Podchaser and Boomplay.
Big thank you to everyone who took part ❤️
You can listen on my website (link in bio), Spotify, Podbean, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Podchaser and Boomplay.
May 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
All 7 episodes of The Community Musician in Conversation are now LIVE on The Community Musician Podcast.
Big thank you to everyone who took part ❤️
You can listen on my website (link in bio), Spotify, Podbean, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Podchaser and Boomplay.
Big thank you to everyone who took part ❤️
You can listen on my website (link in bio), Spotify, Podbean, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, PlayerFM, Podchaser and Boomplay.
The Community Musician in Conversation is going LIVE!!!
I have released two conversations, one from @beckidriscoll, a fiddle player from North Devon, and the other from David Roberts, co-director for @soundwaveca28 in West Cumbria.
You can listen by following the link in my bio!
I have released two conversations, one from @beckidriscoll, a fiddle player from North Devon, and the other from David Roberts, co-director for @soundwaveca28 in West Cumbria.
You can listen by following the link in my bio!
March 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Community Musician in Conversation is going LIVE!!!
I have released two conversations, one from @beckidriscoll, a fiddle player from North Devon, and the other from David Roberts, co-director for @soundwaveca28 in West Cumbria.
You can listen by following the link in my bio!
I have released two conversations, one from @beckidriscoll, a fiddle player from North Devon, and the other from David Roberts, co-director for @soundwaveca28 in West Cumbria.
You can listen by following the link in my bio!
❤️❤️🎶🎶
🎵In Darlington and in Redcar & Cleveland, foster carers and the babies and children in their care are experiencing the joy and benefits of making music together 🎶
March 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
❤️❤️🎶🎶
Have a read about what I get up to. It's the most rewarding, inspiring, loving group of adults and children to work with. I look forward to singing, playing, chatting and laughing with them every week ❤️🎶❤️
Did you know that we run regular music-making sessions, designed especially to help care-experienced babies & children develop stronger relationships?
Musician & Blue Cabin artist Carol Bowden explains more: wearebluecabin.com/latest/this-... @youthmusic.bsky.social @bowders.bsky.social
Musician & Blue Cabin artist Carol Bowden explains more: wearebluecabin.com/latest/this-... @youthmusic.bsky.social @bowders.bsky.social
This Is definitely the best Place - Blue Cabin
An insight into music-making sessions with babies, children and carers, from associate artist Carol Bowden.
wearebluecabin.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Have a read about what I get up to. It's the most rewarding, inspiring, loving group of adults and children to work with. I look forward to singing, playing, chatting and laughing with them every week ❤️🎶❤️
Evaluation shouldn't be "done on" but "done with". Read my blog for @wearebluecabin on working together to design evaluation for varying projects.
wearebluecabin.com/latest/the-p...
wearebluecabin.com/latest/the-p...
The people and passion in evaluation - Blue Cabin
When Blue Cabin partnered with tialt // there is an alternative to develop a new way of measuring our impact, we wanted to make sure that people across the entire organisation were involved – includin...
wearebluecabin.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Evaluation shouldn't be "done on" but "done with". Read my blog for @wearebluecabin on working together to design evaluation for varying projects.
wearebluecabin.com/latest/the-p...
wearebluecabin.com/latest/the-p...
This is going to be a cracking event for practitioners and researchers working in community music. Get yourself booked on!
Community Music Now
Date: Mar 1 • 9:30 am
Location: Portland Way, Leeds, LS1
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...
Community Music Now
Date: Mar 1 • 9:30 am
Location: Portland Way, Leeds, LS1
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...
Community Music Now
A collaborative production between Sound Sense, Leeds Beckett University and AMP, exploring innovative practice in community music.
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January 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is going to be a cracking event for practitioners and researchers working in community music. Get yourself booked on!
Community Music Now
Date: Mar 1 • 9:30 am
Location: Portland Way, Leeds, LS1
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...
Community Music Now
Date: Mar 1 • 9:30 am
Location: Portland Way, Leeds, LS1
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-...