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To see or not to see
Post date: Wednesday, 26 September 2018 - 3:17pm

You start playing football on a Saturday morning in your local park at the age of five, maybe because your dad did, or because that’s what your mates are doing, and you probably carry on until you leave school. By that time, maybe one of your friends has been picked for a local team or been talent-spotted by a scout.

But generally they won’t have been. All the same, you’ll probably mostly carry on with football: 5-a-side teams with work colleagues, adult village teams, pub or charity teams, helping out with the kids on a Saturday morning, attending matches. 

Meet the 2018 Adopt a Composer pairings
Post date: Monday, 24 September 2018 - 10:08am

Each year our Adopt a Composer project sets leisure-time choirs, orchestras and ensembles up with composers for a year to produce a new piece together. Meet this year's pairings.

Chloe Knibbs and Ex Urbe

Chloe is a Birmingham-based composer inspired by city life, folk tales and personal experiences. Included in the British Music Collection, Chloe is currently supported by the PRS Women Make Music Fund. 

Guest blog: 'Budget should never be a barrier' with new instrument rent to buy scheme
Post date: Monday, 17 September 2018 - 2:40pm

Online music school, Your Space Music Lessons has launched a new drive to make music tuition easier for families to access. In a new partnership with ‘rent to buy’ instrument service Duet Shop, new orchestral instruments can be obtained from just £7.50 per month.

For families who find it hard to budget for instruments and have little time to access quality tuition, the hope is that this partnership will enable more children and adults to learn from a broad range of orchestral instruments in their own home.

Adopt a Composer: Meet your neighbours
Post date: Thursday, 13 September 2018 - 3:45pm

Composer Esmeralda Conde Ruiz on memory, archives and human nature as influences in her Adopt a Composer collaboration with The Fretful Federation Mandolin Orchestra.

It’s that awkward moment when you meet your neighbours for the first time on the staircase.You might smile, you might small talk, you might pretend not to see them. We all know how that feels like. But what if you ask a community orchestra to meet their neighbours?

Corporate member Travelbound talks about tailor-made tours for school groups
Post date: Tuesday, 11 September 2018 - 5:00pm

Are you a music teacher or do you know a music teacher? Our corporate member Travelbound is a music tour specialist and can provide tailor-made trips, 24-hour-support during the tour, concert marketing and more. Here they explain more.

If you’re a music teacher you’ll know that a music tour can bring countless benefits to your students.

Make Music Day 2018 - the results!
Post date: Thursday, 30 August 2018 - 5:10pm

We're delighted to report Make Music Day 2018 saw over 500 free performances to audiences reaching 50,000 people, and in locations as varied as markets to moors. 

This year's event was treble that of 2017 in both size and reach, a huge thanks to all who participated - bring on 2019!

Until then, here's a summary evaluation report of what was achieved and what this means for the future of Make Music Day.

Composer Emily Crossland appointed as new Adopt a Composer mentor
Post date: Thursday, 30 August 2018 - 3:08pm

We're delighted to announce that composer Emily Crossland, herself an Adopt a Composer alumna, will be joining our three current mentors this year to mentor one of the seven pairings.

Be part of a unique singing performance
Post date: Thursday, 30 August 2018 - 2:35pm

Do you love to sing? Award-winning composer and conductor, Esmeralda Conde Ruiz is working with The Old Church in Stoke Newington, London to create a unique live performance.

Learn, develop and perform at the UK Choir Festival
Post date: Wednesday, 29 August 2018 - 12:00pm

The UK Choir Festival will be coming to Exmouth, Monmouth (Wales) and St Albans this autumn and will feature workshops and collaborative performances for vocal groups of all kinds and abilities. So if you're coming, make sure you stop by and say hello!

Welcome to our latest Corporate Supporter, Last Minute Musicians
Post date: Tuesday, 28 August 2018 - 11:59am

Last Minute Musicians is home to well over 3,000 bands, solo musicians, entertainers and related service providers from across the UK.

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