We represent and support over 2,850 voluntary and amateur music groups throughout the UK, including choirs, orchestras, music promoters, samba bands, jazz groups, festivals, handbell ringers, barbershop choruses, brass bands, folk groups and many others.

We provide voluntary and amateur music groups with public liability insurance, a simple scheme for royalty payments, audience development opportunities and advice and much more.




	123sing! website now live				Highnotes, May 2010 published

	There is a full toolkit for members and the public to use including empty belly invites, posters, flyers, a leader poster that can be used to publicise 123sing!. If you have decided to host a 123sing! event, please upload your event here.				We now publish Highnotes through an online reader. Please check out the May 2010 issue. You can also find past issues going back to January 2009.

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	Nominate a composer for the British Composer Awards!				Form a Folk Band!

	Once again the British Association of Songwriters, Composers and Authors is inviting submissions for its 8th annual British Composer Awards (BCA). If your group has premièred a new work between 1 April 2009 and 31 March 2010, please nominate the work for the Making Music category of the BCA. Help champion the work of amateur groups in commissioning and performing new music, as well as the composers working within the voluntary sector by nominating now! Closing date for nominations is Friday 24 September 2010.				A course of 6 workshops in autumn 2010 starting 26 September at the SAE Institute, Littlemore (Oxford) brings together musicians to form folk bands. Includes all instruments and voices looking at playing for dancing as well as for concert performance situations. For events in your region, you can find Making Music member concerts for sale on the Making Music Wegottickets portal.

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