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Latest Notices
Training Them Live are developing a website called medwaymusic.co.uk to bring together all youth music opportunities in one place. We are working with Medway Council, Midkent College, Schools and Under Siege to promote the activities for teenagers. Website will be launched in March.
We met with Gordon Brown in November to discuss our youth music project and we have written to him about expanding our project.
We are running a Jam Night on Tuesday 9th February. 7.30pm at Greenacre School. All proceeds will go to Demelza and McMillan Nurses, to add to the £4000 we have already raised for them.
Professional band “Sidetrack” will be the house band and all musicians of all ages are welcome to come along. Entry is one £1. Bring a bottle.
Please email dan@trainingthemlive.co.uk to play and get a copy of sidetrack’s repertoire if you want a chance to play with some of Medway’s best pro musicians.
We are accepting applications for a weekly Rock School for 11-18 year olds from February. Application forms are at www.trainingthemlive.co.uk It is free and very popular.
Our Urban project, to engage young people interested in DJing and MCing, runs each week. It is also free. Email dan@trainingthemlive.co.uk for more details. Workshops given by professional DJs and supported by Aaron Stone.
Kind regard
Dan
Mr D Wise
Advanced Skills Teacher - Medway LA
Acting Assistant Head Teacher - Greenacre SchoolMusic Department - Greenacre School
Gifted and Talented Lead Teacher Musical Director - TrainingThemLive.co.uk
01634 861593 x261
MUSICIANS
HAVE YOUR SAY ...
- Take part in the biggest ever UK and Eire
survey of musicians...
- Tell us how to spend our money, and you could get
£150 of Amazon vouchers
The Musicians Benevolent Fund (MBF) is
the music business's own charity. Each
year, we spend around £2.5 million,
helping professional musicians, music
students and others who work in the
profession. Our mission is to 'listen to
musicians - respond to their needs',
and that's why we're asking for your help.
We'd like you to tell us what we
should be doing to help musicians today.
That's why we're launching Musicians...Have
your say, which we think is the
biggest ever survey of professional musicians
and music students across the UK
and Eire. We plan to use what musicians tell
us to help us determine what we'll
spend our money on in the future.
We're distributing over 50 000 of these to shops, recording studios and
rehearsal
spaces around the country, so that we get feedback from as wide a
range of
musicians as possible. We're also working with industry bodies, such as
the
Musicians' Union and AIM to spread the word.
If you're a professional
musician or a music student, we hope you'll be able to
free up the ten minutes
or so it will take you to fill it out a questionnaire
and tell us some facts
about your life. What you tell us could directly affect
how we support professional
musicians and music students in the future.
The hub is working with the
Musicians Benevolent Fund on what we think is the
biggest UK and Eire survey
of musicians and music students. Check it out at:
http://www.musicianshaveyoursay.com Digital
Foundations - Community Music and MulitmediaDigital Foundations offers community
music and media workshops, projects and Performances to people living in Ashford,
Kent. Sessions include artist recording and development, Rock School for people
wanting to learn an instrument, Learning music production, DJ and MC workshops
and creating music videos. A lot of these sessions have funding and are free to
all participants, but some are not and require booking. For more information please
contact us or visit our website. Ken Cameron - Digital Foundations - Ashford,
Kent Telephone: (07752) 224 170
info@digitalfoundations.co.uk
URL:
http://www.digitalfoundations.co.uk
Musicians
Benevolent Fund
There are a large number of resources available to students,
parents and teachers to assist with the funding of study projects for gifted musicians
and this database and Awards Wizard can help you to identify many of the Music
Awards and Scholarships which are available.This database is not exhaustive and
does not list awards and prizes that are offered and administered by music colleges,
nor awards, grants and loans which may be available from local authorities - details
of these can be obtained by contacting the organisations concerned directly.Questions
will help the Awards Wizard determine which awards may be suitable. Once you have
answered all of the questions click on the "Finish" button to display
a shortlist of Awards which may be suitable for you.
Visit https://www.mbf.org.uk/ngen_public/index.asp
The WOMAD Foundation is a
registered educational charity established in 1983 and is the educational arm
of the WOMAD Festival organisation.. Worldwide we provide opportunities for cultural
exchange, learning and active participation, bringing the arts of different cultures
to the widest possible audience.Over and above our festival workshop programmes
throughout the world, the Foundation devises and produces: § Projects for
schools, from nursery through to tertiary level,
§ Community music projects
§ Festival outreach programmes
§ Site specific visual arts
events
§ Artist residences
§ Artist exchanges We have over
20 years experience of working with artists and educators in many different educational
settings and our current programme of work has three main components:§ The
Growth of Music - A series of educational sessions introducing musicians who come
from specific musical and performance traditions in their countries of origin,
presenting and exploring these traditions through particular cultural contexts.§
Cultural Collaborations - New music in the making, bringing together musicians
from diverse cultures and musical backgrounds, to explore the interaction of musical
cultures and the impact of collaboration on a personal level for musicians. This
programme provides opportunities to work with both young people and professional
musicians.§ Voices of the Ancestors - This series introduces musicians whose
work is steeped in a sense of social and spiritual history, exploring the places
where their cultural heritage converges and diverges. Artists who have left their
countries of origin, will share their experiences through musical dialogue, discussion
and performance. This project lends itself particularly well to a cross curricular
approach.We create educational resources and background materials for all our
projects, which aim to broaden and strengthen the curriculum. We work on a consultative
level with regional, national and international organisations, as well as government
and funding bodies, to realise individual projects. If you are interested in partnering
the WOMAD Foundation in a project in the South East or would like to discuss any
of the above, ...please contact :anniem@realworld.co.uk Annie
Menter - Director,Education and Special Projects, The WOMAD Foundation, Millside,
Mill Lane, Box, Wiltshire SN13 8PN. Tel: 01225 743188 Fax: 01225 743481
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