Grassroots Music Making needs support. Are you in a position to help?

Grassroots music making is the source of our music culture and sense of place. But it's under threat from rising costs, venue closures, loss of accessible spaces, reduced income streams, changing audience habits, political decisions, and lack of funding and support. Please support our CrowdFund on Go Fund Me. The cost of touring may have gone up 30-40% in recent times, but Musicians wages have either stayed the same, or gone down. Without affordable spaces and opportunities for artists at the grassroots level, we risk losing diverse voices, local culture, and the talent that will demonstrate future successes. By investing in grassroots music making we are investing in our own cultural…

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National Children’s Remembrance Concert, Genting Arena, Birmingham, November 3rd 2018 to mark the 100th anniversary of the ending of the first World War.

More than 2500 children will be performing in the first ever National Children’s Remembrance Concert at the Genting Arena in Birmingham on November 3rd 2018 to mark the 100th anniversary of the ending of the first World War. Children from across the country will perform music, song and drama to commemorate and remember the tens of millions of civilians and combatants from across the world who died in that war including an estimated 540,000 children. The concert will pay homage to the role and sacrifices by women and non-combatants and the many millions of animals that were killed in the conflict including nearly eight million horses and mules. Large screens will…

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