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Posted on 6 May 2020
Following the emergence of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK, we explore matters to consider for your music group.Updated 15 MayCovid-19/...
Posted on 21 April 2020
Orchestra founder and manager Adrian Bullock tells us how Making Music member group, the Enfield Community Orchestra, got ahead of events caused...
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 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 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 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...
Posted on 28 February 2020
When published in 2011, the National Plan for Music Education (NPME)  was revolutionary – no other art form has a national plan, and none...
Posted on 25 February 2020
The event will be taking place at the Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre, 28 and 29 March in Leeds. Making Music members can...
Posted on 19 February 2020
Jo Towler explains how promoter, Music in the Round, is bringing musical and cultural fusion to Sheffield.Music in the Round recently led a...
Posted on 12 February 2020
Jono Heale, Director of ACS Custom and bassist, highlights the problems around hearing loss for leisure-time musicians and what you can do to keep...