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Make your nomination for the 2016 Music Libraries Award
Post date: Friday, 30 October 2015 - 12:52pm

Want to sing the praises of YOUR music library or music library staff, but don’t quite know how?  Well, IAML (UK & Irland), the International Association of Music Libraries, may just have the answer for you.

Their 2016 Excellence Award for Music Libraries highlights and celebrates activity in music libraries showing sustained good work and good practice with the potential to be adopted and adapted by others. The Award is open to all music libraries in the UK and Ireland, no matter what their sector, size or type.

Get involved in BBC Music Day 2016
Post date: Friday, 30 October 2015 - 11:58am

After a first outing in 2015, BBC Music Day returns on Friday 3 June 2016 and they are looking to involve amateur music groups

Meeting The Lincoln Ukulele Band
Post date: Wednesday, 21 October 2015 - 5:51pm
On 26th September I drove to Lincoln to meet the whole of The Lincoln Ukulele Band in their usual rehearsal space and to see and hear them in action. I found the room just as Catherine had said, next to the fish monger section at the back of a large supermarket in a community room.
Guest post: A Tour-Terrific Summer for Rayburn Tours
Post date: Friday, 16 October 2015 - 11:36am

It’s been a great summer for specialist Concert Tours Operator, Rayburn Tours, having helped heaps of choirs, youth ensembles, bands and orchestras travel to exciting destinations, perform in fantastic venues and create memorable tour experiences.

The Research of Others
Post date: Tuesday, 13 October 2015 - 12:00am

It’s always positive when research for a piece leads down some rather unexpected roads. Before writing for the Thame Chamber Choir, and the associated children’s choir TCC2, I would have thought myself rather unlikely to be delving into 13th Century liturgical chant, or the pronunciation of Middle English.  Yet, here I was, following the learned Dr James Cook of the University of Nottingham/Cambridge University round the library as he pulled hefty tomes from the shelves.

Community Spirit
Post date: Friday, 25 September 2015 - 12:26pm

Adopt a Composer 2014, Michael Betteridge with the Cobweb Orchestra.

Cor World Choir: join 20,000 voices
Post date: Friday, 25 September 2015 - 12:04pm

An update on the Cor World Choir event taking place in Cardiff on Saturday 21 May 2016 and how to register.

Book an emerging early music ensemble with a subsidy!
Post date: Friday, 25 September 2015 - 11:25am

Making Music presents an exciting opportunity with Brighton Early Music Festival for our members to programme an early music ensemble and receive a substantial subsidy towards their fees

Extended intervals
Post date: Thursday, 24 September 2015 - 5:48pm

In his first diary column for Classical Music, roving critic Michael White has mixed feelings as he reacquaints himself with the Albert Hall and goes from the sublime to the riotous during a musical sojourn in the south of France.

Friday Afternoons – sing with the kids?
Post date: Thursday, 24 September 2015 - 4:48pm

Friday Afternoons is a project to get kids singing on the Friday nearest Britten’s birthday in November. New songs and free resources are provided each year.

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