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Congratulations to Manchester Inspirational Voices, BBC Songs of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year

Manchester Inspirational Voices, members of Making Music, have won the BBC Songs of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year 2016 competition.

Broadcast opportunity: BBC Radio 3 want to meet your group

Early in 2017, ten member groups will be featured on BBC Radio 3's Saturday Breakfast show. Performing groups of all kinds (vocal and instrumental) are invited to submit recordings - of any style, genre and instrumentation - to Making Music. We'll then whittle down the entries to the top 20 for the BBC to select the final 10 pieces from.

The performance is upon us!

The performance of my piece ‘Ukulele Fantasy’ by The Lincoln Ukulele Band is fast approaching.

Finding the Music

The Horsham Symphony Orchestra has had a fairly leisurely start to the Adopt a Composer project.

Survey: The value of musical groups to their communities

When we (and other music advocacy organisations) are making the case for amateur music groups to those in power, being able to de

Music education: the issues

Over a year ago now, the government’s consultation on making the proposed EBacc a compulsory measure for secondary schools closed

Wonderful sounds and humorous moments

Our adopted composer, Chris Schlechte-Bond, had already been up to Macclesfield to meet the band.  On that occasion he brought his alto saxophone a