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2015: Female flautists perform outdoors during summer Proms in the Park
Posted on 25 May 2021
Bury St Edmunds Concert Band trombonist Gary Hawkes pens a diary entry for Adopt a Music Creator 2020/21, again pondering how Litha Efthymiou...
Bury St Edmunds Concert Band play an outdoor summer concert, pre-pandemic
Posted on 23 May 2021
Bury St Edmunds Concert Band trombonist Gary Hawkes fills us in on another thought-provoking Zoom workshop with Litha Efthymiou for Adopt a Music...
A female choir stand in line on tour, holding manuscripts to read from
Posted on 17 May 2021
Jenny Dalton, communications and marketing manager for Club Europe, talks us through their Covid protection framework for your next music tour.As...
Bury St Edmunds Concert Band play Proms in the Park, Ickworth House
Posted on 11 May 2021
Bury St Edmunds Concert Band trombonist Gary Hawkes reflects on introductory sessions with Litha Efthymiou, and how she has got to know the group...
TryBooking logo
Posted on 10 May 2021
Joan Lind, managing director of TryBooking, provides the lowdown on their socially distanced seating plans for any size or type of musical...
word cloud created from survey data with words such as 'risk assessment' 'advice' and 'updates'
Posted on 30 April 2021
One year into the pandemic, we conducted another coronavirus impact survey of our members, following up on surveys conducted in March...
a boy and an older woman holding a tambourine smile during an intergenerational musical meeting
Posted on 23 April 2021
Emily Abbott, programme director for Intergenerational Music Making and Together with Music, outlines the aims of an exciting new project....
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Posted on 21 April 2021
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams identifies Somebody Else’s Problem (SEP) as: something we can't see, or...
MD Dr Richard Bunzl leads Hepton Singers through an in-person rehearsal, pre-pandemic
Posted on 16 April 2021
Hepton Singers' MD Richard Bunzl ponders how Fergus Hall has drawn on the history of Hebden Bridge to inspire their Adopt a Music Creator...
Three-part image showing an amateur choir rehearsing in a field overlaid with a red cross and text ‘Amateur music groups?’, men playing football overlaid with green tick and text 'Amateur sports?’, two men taking pictures overlaid with green tick and text 'Photography clubs?’
Posted on 15 April 2021
Making Music was expecting confirmation that Step 2 in the England roadmap would allow outdoor music rehearsals with more than six people from...
Emma, bass saxophonist for Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra
Posted on 3 April 2021
Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra chair Foss Foster outlines Ben Lunn's research on the life of William Thom, the 'Inverury Poet...
Posted on 2 April 2021
Making Music is delighted to announce it has been awarded a grant of £44,000 from the second round of the Government’s Culture Recovery...