Search for inspiring SEN music teaching
A programme aiming to raise expectations and awareness of what young disabled people can achieve is seeking examples of music proj…
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Free music lessons on Learn to Play Day
Music stores across the UK will be offering people taster sessions on instruments for Learn to Play Day on 16 March. Run for the f…
Support for pop musicians, but artists remain on the margins
PRS for Music Foundation (PRSF), the funding body for new music initiatives, has been chosen to deliver Arts Council England&rsquo…
Scottish musicians to get fringe benefits from funding body
Music is now supported under the 'Made in Scotland' scheme alongside theatre and dance.
Sheet music for all in schools
A new agreement between the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) and the Department for Education will include a new licence with the…
New music biennial seeks compositions
The first UK-wide music biennial, to take place in 2014, is seeking proposals from organisations to work with composers to create…
Musicians’ Unions speak out over copyright law changes
Musicians’ organisations have spoken out against the Government’s announcement of a private copyright concession makin…
Musicians struggle to make a living
More than half of professional musicians get paid less than £20,000, and 60% have worked for free over the past year, says a…
Scottish Government support revives brass bands
The number of brass bands in Scotland has almost doubled over the past five years, following a Scottish Government investment thro…
Arts at the heart
At the end of a year in which Paul Hamlyn Foundation celebrates 25 years of grant-making, Robert Dufton discusses his organisation…
Musicians in court battle over NI
Musicians Benevolent Fund is calling for HMRC to take a more flexible approach to freelance performers.
Lords leap into action on arts in the EBacc
Government shows no signs of changing its view of the arts as an add-on to Secondary education.
New ACE fund to support pop musicians
Small grants will help break down financial barriers to commercial progress.
Sound and Music consults on priorities
A public consultation is asking anyone interested in or involved in new music to give feedback on the role currently being played…
MU campaigns for fair pay
The Musicians’ Union (MU) has launched ‘Work not Play’, a campaign for fair pay in the music sector. Musicians a…
100 per cent commitment
The success of Harrow Arts Centre’s 100% programme of events and festivals is based on the many young people involved in both pr…
Writing for voluntary musicians
Groups in the voluntary music sector are often privileged to premiere a new piece of music. Henry Bird looks at how composers and…
London leads the way
The Mayor’s Education Inquiry arrived last month, following extensive consultation with stakeholders across London. But what…
Positive effects for those involved in Liverpool’s In Harmony
Liverpool’s In Harmony music scheme for young people, modelled on Venezuela’s famous ‘El Sistema’, has improved its partic…
State of play
Tina Mermiri examines recent research to discover what the arts – and its sponsors – can learn from their audiences
Campaign launched to preserve cultural education
A campaign has been launched to maintain arts subjects such as music and design and technology at the heart of the curriculum and…
American visa report published
Advice on how musicians can successfully navigate the American visa system has been compiled by Musical America, with information…
My Gurus – Jane Bryant
Jane Bryant pays tribute to those who inspire her
Mixing teenagers and orchestral music
First Time Live Youth aims to change the way orchestral concerts are perceived by young people, says Matt Carwardine-Palmer.
