A new project is starting in Hull offering support to young people looking for a career in Music. The Youth Music Mentors project is aimed at 14-19 years olds and is being delivered by Music4U – the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone.
Youth Music Mentors is a national mentoring programme to help tackle antisocial behaviour and raise aspirations among young people. Funded by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) as part of the RESPECT agenda, the programme will get young people involved in music making and provide one-to-one and group mentoring sessions with peers, musicians and the music industry.
This pilot project in Hull is one of 14 national schemes being co-ordinated by Youth Music on behalf of the DCMS.
A number of organisations will be supporting the project locally as part of a delivery group which includes Hull City Arts, Hull Music Service, Hull University, Hull College and the community music organisations Humbersound and Big Hand Productions.
A development group will also be set up to look at taking the project beyond the pilot phase and rolling it out to other areas in the Humber region.
There will be a free open day to launch the project and details will appear on this website. Young people will be invited to come along and find out more about the project and sign up to the scheme. During the event there will also be a range of taster music workshops on offer to take part in. Following the open day those that sign up to the project will be assigned a mentor who will work with them to develop their potential.
In addition, for young people already well on their way to a music career, there will be the opportunity to volunteer on the project by providing support to their peers and taking part in music masterclasses.
For more information contact the project co-ordinator for Youth Music Mentors in Hull at respect@humber-music4u.com
Griots t' Garage Workshop as part of Hull Jazz Festival
Fifteen young jazz musicians worked with Dennis Rollins, internationally renowned jazz trombonist, in a workshop during the Hull Jazz Festival themed on Griots t’ Garage - his historical journey through of 500 years of Black Music. The workshop finished with a pre-concert performance at Hull Truck as part of the Jazz Festival.
This project was a partnership between Music4U, Hull Music Support Services, J-Night and Hull Jazz Festival.
Hull Jazz Gamelan Project
As part of the ongoing Jazz Gamelan project during September and October 2007, participants will be recruited in three Gamelan after school workshops with Hull Schools and Special Schools. Three more Sunday workshops sessions will be held running 10am-4pm on consecutive Sundays with the Gamelan workshop group and with the Hull Schools Jazz Band. These workshops will be led by Music Tutor Laurence Rugg and feature a guest Jazz tutor of international acclaim.
Finally, a large Jazz Gamelan workshop will be held, culminating in a premiere performance as part of the opening of the new Albermarle Music Centre on Ferensway, Hull on 1st November.
This project is a partnership between Music4U, Hull Music Support Services, J-Night and Hull Jazz Festival.
Snake Davies Summer School in North Lincs
Young people in North Lincolnshire will work with one of the UK's leading musicians in a Jazz Summer School taking place in August 2007.
The renowned saxophonist and flute player, Snake Davis, will lead three-days of workshops in Scunthorpe.
The sessions are being organised by the North Lincolnshire Council Arts Development and Music4U.
The project will culminate in a performance as part of 'The Buzz' Youth Arts Festival at the Plowright Theatre in Scunthorpe, giving participants the chance to showcase what they have learnt.
Snake Davis has worked with some of the biggest names in the British music scene including Mpeople, Kylie Minogue, James Brown, Jamiroquai and Paul McCartney. He returns to the area following successful Jazz Summer Schools in North East Lincolnshire over the last two years.
Young musicians in North Lincolnshire, and from further afield in North East Lincolnshire, are being urged to sign-up and learn from his experience in this years' Summer School.
During the sessions there will be a chance to learn some of Snake's own music, work in groups to create new pieces, discover improvisation and find out techniques to make practicing fun as well as hear tips on overcoming performance nerves.
Led by Darren Squires of local community music organisation Creative Projects, Humber Rhythms will work with five Humber Region secondary schools and two of their feeder primaries; fifteen schools in total.
The essence of the project is to develop soundscapes based on the East Coast and inland waterways of the Humber and Trent. Using the Creative Projects music technology bus and instrument bus as resources, a music leader will work over five sessions at each of the ten primary schools with Year 6 children in late June and early July. These same young people will then be followed to their secondary school in September where the project will continue in conjunction with Year 10 music students to pull together a recording of the work that they have produced.
This project comes within the following strand of the Music4U priorities: Encouraging young people to continue to make music during the transition from primary to secondary education.
Working with special needs young people is an important part of the Zone’s work and it continues to be one of its core objectives.
Music4U has worked with a number of special schools in the region including Frederick Holmes, Tweendykes, Ganton, Humberston Park and Cambridge Park Schools, enabling young people with a wide range of mental and physical disabilities to make music and participate in music workshops and performances.
The results have been wonderful and inspiring with the young people excelling themselves and connecting with the music. By using skilled musicians the projects have been extremely rewarding for the young people, staff, parents and musicians.
The work in special school has mostly been percussion led and also included opportunities for the young people to play the region’s resident Gamelans.
Projects for the future include working with autistic and the hard of hearing young people as well as continuing to provide music opportunities with established special schools in the region.
This project comes within the following strand of the Music4U priorities: Giving young people with special needs opportunities to participate in music making
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