Listen at Lunchtime is an opportunity for your staff to mingle across teams, clear their minds, and give their mental agility and health a boost at lunchtime, through an informal and enjoyable live music experience.
This weekly (frequency is flexible!) series of relaxed music performances is delivered by exceptionally talented early career artists, managed by Live Music Now Scotland, and offers your staff the chance to hear from and enjoy live music in their own workplace. It’s a chance to meet up and recharge batteries in the middle of the day with a 30–45 minute performance, followed by a ‘meet the artists’ chat over a cup of tea or coffee before heading back to work. Experience tells us that enjoying high quality live music and engaging with artists can help to reduce stress and anxiety, promote improved mental health and bring increased concentration and focus – what a great result from your team’s lunchbreak!
The music we offer can be classical, Scottish traditional, jazz or pop, and ensembles can range in size from one to five musicians. Nothing is required of the workplace other than a space for the musicians to perform!
The shared social pleasure and joy of live music brings wellbeing benefits widely evidenced in academic research (https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/keep-your-brain-young-with-music/) and, in our own work, we aim to engage with people no matter their background, age or ability. We have previously worked successfully with Scottish Widows, as the music strand of an Arts in Residence programme, providing Listen at Lunchtime performances and other music events at what were their two main bases in Edinburgh.
