Music creator Robin Fiedler talks about preparing for their workshop with Regent Brass as part of Adopt a Music Creator 2023.
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Post date: Wednesday, 12 April 2023 - 1:09pm
Pauline Waugh, Chair and co-founder of singing group Cheyne Gang, talks to us about a new free resource for people suffering from long covid.
As a group, the Cheyne Gang came to be because three practice nurses (myself, Anne Ritchie and Sarah Marshall) were researching singing as a self-management tool for people living with long-term respiratory conditions. So it came as no surprise when we started receiving enquiries from people living with covid for advice on breathlessness management.
Post date: Monday, 10 April 2023 - 5:05pm
In May, there are local elections in some parts of England (4 May), and in Northern Ireland (18 May). When your local candidates come knocking, you may want to talk to them about your music group.
Making Music members have told us about the issues that affect them at a local level, so below we have put together some asks you could pass on to your candidates if these issues are relevant to you, which you can adapt as necessary.
Post date: Wednesday, 5 April 2023 - 3:42pm
Learn to Play Day is back for another year! The annual event, organised by the Music for All charity, is a UK-wide day for lapsed or new musicians to take up playing an instrument and receive a free music lesson.
This year it will take place on 7 and 8 October 2023 at venues and music stores across the UK.
You can get involved in many ways - your music group could host a venue, you can encourage your music group members and your community to participate, or you yourself could learn a new instrument.
Post date: Monday, 3 April 2023 - 10:00am
We’re delighted to announce a partnership with Brighton Early Music Festival for the newly expanded Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme to bring wider opportunities to brilliant young musicians.
The Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme (PDGYA) recognises some of the UK’s top young musical talents and provides Making Music groups with an affordable way of booking artists.
Post date: Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 5:30pm
Charitable organisations are being targeted by scammers. Making Music provides guidance on how you can take protective measures.
It’s a sad truth that small community organisations are high on the target list for scammers and fraudsters. Technology makes it ever easier for criminals to target local organisations like music groups, and the people that run them in their thousands.
Post date: Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 4:06pm
This month the UK government announced that the Orchestra Tax Relief claim rate will continue to stay at 50% for another two years.
Post date: Thursday, 30 March 2023 - 3:03pm
Writer Graham Palmer, and composer and Adopt a Music Creator mentor Jenni Pinnock, call on East of England singing groups to take part in producing secular winter songs.
Spring may finally be upon us, but many music directors and committees will already be thinking ahead about what to programme for winter. Curating a diverse range of repertoire during the festive season can be a challenge, a challenge which the Yule Songs project hopes to make a little less trying.
Post date: Tuesday, 28 March 2023 - 12:53pm
This free network, chaired by Making Music, brings together organisations with an interest in singing in the UK. Chief Executive Barbara Eifler reports from its recent meeting.
Post date: Tuesday, 14 March 2023 - 3:59pm
We sit down with Richard Gonski, music director of Torbay Symphony Orchestra, to discuss their Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) Inspiration Award 2023, decided by public vote.
Could you tell us a bit about your history working with Torbay Symphony Orchestra?
I moved to Devon from London in 1996 and a few years later was asked to become conductor of what was then the Torbay Light Orchestra. At the first rehearsal, I asked that the orchestra change its name to Torbay Symphony Orchestra (TSO), which they very graciously agreed to.
