Bringing local communities together since 2013 to tackle
social exclusion, all through the love of music and food.
Beats & Eats is a Non-Profit Community Interest Company
We rely on funding to deliver our events & workshops.
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BEATS & EATS
CROYDON
A FESTIVAL OF GLOBAL MUSIC & FOOD FOR CROYDON DELIVERED BY THE COMMUNITY
Beats & Eats Croydon is an eight-month grassroots music events programme, delivered across a series of loca
venues designed to strengthen Croydon’s music ecosystem through our fully-accessible, community‑driven events that champion emerging talent, diverse genres, and local cultural identity. The programme centres on four flagship events and nine music and dance workshops to be held either side of a one‑day festival delivered across two venues in Central Croydon; The Village Table and the Front Rooms.
Our aim is to build sustainable pathways for artists, audiences, and community groups while embedding new partnerships that continue beyond the project period.
Our four, free entry flagship events are:
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Beats & Eats at Socco Cheta, South Norwood - A new food and music collaboration with South Norwood Community Kitchen members and an extension of our platform for emerging local artists and DJs selected through an open call, receiving mentoring, rehearsal support, and paid performance opportunities.
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Beats & Eats Lab at OurSpace, Croydon. Producer & DJ Development Day – a free-entry, hands-on electronic music workshop series led by our Music production and DJ tutors, aimed at underrepresented young creatives and secure sessions for our SEND cohort.
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Beats & Eats at Smile Hub, West Croydon. Community Jam & Food Culture Day – a global cultural explosion of music and food in partnership with local food vendors, focusing on cross‑cultural exchange and inclusive entry points into music participation through music and dance introduction workshops..
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Beats & Eats at The Oval, East Croydon – an all day, live guitar-based music session blending local artists and singers from Croydon’s diverse communities, highlighting diasporic genres and heritage.
These events will be delivered on either side of our first one-day festival, Beats & Eats Croydon; an all day, free entry, family‑friendly cultural fusion of music, dance and food, split between Queens Gardens (open‑air community stage, participatory music, youth stage) for the morning/ afternoon session and The Event Rooms (main indoor headline and emerging‑artist stages and DJs) for the evening to late night programming.
The festival will celebrate global cultural connections, showcase talent nurtured through our programme while attracting new local audiences.
All artists will be paid at or above recognised industry standards. Headliners will be Croydon artist Jords, and Navz-47, a Toronto-based Tamil-Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and composer recognized for blending Tamil, French, and English in her music. Supporting artists are local band The Vibeadeliks, rapper Tubby and singer Shelbee Tee. After the live music element, a late night Drum & Bass session will carry on the celebrations until close, curated by MC, Blackeye.
