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Posted on 17 April 2020
Rachel Holt, a singer in the Stay At Home Choir, reflects on the music industry’s rapid digital response to COVID-19, and the...
Posted on 14 April 2020
Making Music Chair and viola player, Dorothy Wilson, shares research into ways to play together online during coronavirus lockdownIn one of the...
Posted on 9 April 2020
Making Music has been supporting lawyer and community musician Ralph Riddough’s campaign, to clarify the lawfulness of fees for musical...
Posted on 2 April 2020
Week two of the lockdown saw a new challenge for our Chief Executive, Barbara Eifler, and members of her brass band. Here's how...
Posted on 27 March 2020
Making Music's Chief Executive, Barbara Eifler, reflects on her first week of brass banding the digital way.Like all leisure-...
Posted on 27 March 2020
Making Music’s member survey took place just before the lockdown and reveals aggregate losses of £8.8m across our music groups.24% of...
Posted on 24 March 2020
The international celebration of music, Make Music Day, has set up a number of online initiatives to connect everyone through music on 21 June.Unlike...
Posted on 23 March 2020
Clare Edwards, Musical Director of Notorious Choir, tells us about the successes and challenges of the group's first online...
Posted on 18 March 2020
In light of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, Making Music has been considering how best to support staff and members in these unsettling times....
Posted on 13 March 2020
Jonathan Wells, Chair of Haslingfield Choir, tells us about the choir's latest Adopt a Composer workshop with Alex Paxton.After...
Posted on 9 March 2020
Claire Victoria Roberts shares an insight into her first Adopt a Composer workshop with the Camden Symphony Orchestra.I was thrilled when...
Posted on 3 March 2020
With the film Military Wives out in cinemas this week, we celebrate the military wives choirs phenomenon that started out in Yorkshire with a Making...