Choral Conductor | Concert producer programmer | Churchill-Finzi Fellow 2016 | GTCS Registered | All views are my own
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A survey looking at the cultural activities of more than 30,000 young people – billed as one of the largest surveys of its kind – has revealed the “barriers” facing them, with more than a third stating cost prevents access. (@ace_national)
Read more 👉 thestage.co.uk/news/barriers…
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We're back in @stlukesglasgow this Thursday evening!
Tickets are available from TicketWeb: bit.ly/4mO3pAI
ALT We're back in @stlukesglasgow this Thursday evening! Tickets are available from TicketWeb:bit.ly/4mO3pAI
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Peterborough Cathedral is "in crisis", it said today
Set to run out of money by Easter, its Dean told me
May have to close its doors on some days and become first part-time cathedral - needs £300k by March
This teddy in the transept seemed particularly downcast about it...
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Please sign chng.it/KDH2WWTB6c
Stirling Council proposed £250,000 cut of funding to music services. If approved by councillors, this would be the end of sixty years of instrumental and vocal teaching in schools. @Nicola_Meighan @Europa_Music @CreateStirling @Stirling_News
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Costs associated with school trips can be anxiety inducing for families living on low incomes. Often children and young people who are experiencing poverty will feign lack of interest in a trip simply because they know that their families will struggle to afford the cost. #CPW24
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🚨🏴 Scotland’s cultural landscape is at risk of collapse, due to continued inaction and backtracking from the Scottish Government. Please join me in signing the @_CFTA petition to urge ministers to deliver on their arts funding pledges now. campaignforthearts.org/petit…
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Due to a lack of funding confirmation, Creative Scotland have announced a delay in re-opening their YMI Access to Music & Strengthening Youth Music funding strands.
@creativescots statement is here:
creativescotland.com/funding…
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New: Creative Scotland says it has also had to close applications to two of its crucial youth music funds after the Scottish Government refused to release another £1.8m of its promised budget.
🚨 Scotland’s culture crisis escalates as @CreativeScots shuts down vital multi-million pound fund for artists in wake of new @scotgov spending squeeze - despite promises of additional funding. 🚨
scotsman.com/arts-and-cultur… @culturescotgov @culturecounts @scotsman_arts @TheScotsman
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With Taylor Swift in town, we've had a look at the cost of some concert tickets through the years and adjusted for inflation. 🪩🎸🦋
#CSOIreland #Ireland #TaylorSwift #TayTay #CPI #Inflation #ShakeItOff #DublinTSTheErasTour #erastourdublin
ALT This is an image showing the price of Taylor Swift Irish concert tickets compared with tickets for Queen and Michael Jackson in the 1980s, adjusted for inflation.
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Students (present and past) and their supporters protested the planned closure of their junior department at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with a play-in this afternoon.
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The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama told its staff today that it is axeing its junior department at the end of this term. Almost 200 children study there on saturdays. That will all stop in July. This is not rich kids playing expensive instruments. One of them texted...
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Our open letter detailing our concerns, as a major local arts organisation, about recent decisions by Perth & Kinross Council to reduce Perth & Kinross Instrumental Music Service over the next 3 years >>
perthfestival.co.uk/Instrume…
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Here’s the sound of 575 secondary students singing and playing together - part of the finale of today’s Secondary Music Festival, with the brilliant Pete Letanka conducting his ‘Hope and Glory’. So exciting!
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Replying to the barrage of racism against my son @ShekuKM this week. So many feel it’s ok to call for deportation, flogging, sending him ‘back to Africa’ and to use ‘Ni**er’ against someone trying to engage in a conversation about music and inclusion. Horror, rage, heartbreak.
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Strathaven Choral Society invite you to join them and Coalburn Silver Band for a feast of festive music at their annual Christmas Concert on Sunday 10th December!
𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲: tinyurl.com/bddteyju
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The growing trend of teachers posting classroom videos on TikTok can create issues for schools, students and staff, says safeguarding lead Thomas Michael
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Music is often treated like a second-class subject, yet it’s often the subject that makes the biggest difference for young people. Music Teachers are often treated like second-class teachers, yet they’re often the teachers that make the biggest difference for young people.
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Piano teacher here - if your child turns up to their lesson having not practised you will literally get nothing new from me. You are paying for me to listen to them practice what they should have done during the week. Guess what - I'm not listening and happily taking your cash