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| New Deputy Director for Music4U | 9 Jun 2008
| | Samantha Sumerfield has been appointed Deputy Director for Music4U – the Humber Region’s Youth Music Action Zone. | |
| Healthy Eating Music Project | 25 Feb 2008
| | Children will get the chance to combine food and music in a series of healthy eating musical workshops run in the Humber Region | |
| Indian Music and Dance comes to the Albemarle | 11 Dec 2007
| | Hull and East Riding Hindu Cultural Association present a workshop and performance in Tabla, Sitar and Classical Indian Dance at the Albemarle Music Centre, Ferensway, on Sunday 16th December 2007. | |
| GRIMSBY-BASED YOUTH MUSIC PROJECT SCOOPS REGIONAL AWARD | 10 Oct 2007
| | A Dj-ing project aimed at young offenders in North East Lincolnshire, has scooped a regional award this week in the first ever ‘Just Creativity’ Awards run by the Arts Council England, Yorkshire, the Youth Justice Board, the Prison Service and the Youth Offending Teams in Yorkshire and the Humber. | |
| Music Mentoring Project Launches in Hull | 24 Sep 2007
| | A new project in Hull this Autumn will offer 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. | |
| Young people in Hull to work with top Jazz musician | 30 Jul 2007
| | Fifteen young jazz musicians from Hull will this week take the chance to work with Dennis Rollins, internationally renowned jazz trombonist, in a workshop being supported by Music4U, the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone. | |
| Local young people get all that Jazz | 2 Jul 2007
| | Young people in North East Lincolnshire are being offered a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK’s leading musicians in a Jazz Summer School taking place in August. | |
| Young people get all that Jazz in North Lincs | 2 Jul 2007
| | Young people in North Lincolnshire are being offered a fantastic opportunity to work with one of the UK’s leading musicians in a Jazz Summer School taking place in August. | |
| Melody Monkey’s Makeover! | 6 Jun 2007
| | Melody Monkey’s Marvellous Music Box has had a makeover! From this spring a newly designed box, with new instruments, a new finger puppet and a brand new song book containing 20 new songs and rhymes together with five new stories will be available for all those working with young children to help them run music-making sessions. | |
| New Songs and Traditional Rhymes for the School Playground | 30 Apr 2007
| | Hopscotch is a new pilot project from Music4U, the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone, which will over the coming year focus on encouraging and revitalising Playground Songs & Singing Games in primary school playgrounds across the region. | |
| All Aboard! for a musical journey | 19 Feb 2007
| | A child’s step, jump or a tiptoe can now been turned into musical sounds as a result of All Aboard! a new early years activity created by Music4U – the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone. | |
| Music4U celebrates YMAZ Week in Humber Region | 18 Oct 2006
| | Music4U, the Humber Region Youth Music Action Zone is celebrating the opportunities it provides for young people to get involved in music, by taking part in the first national event for Youth Music Action Zones (YMAZ) organised by Youth Music. | |
| Children get the chance to Jazz it up in Hull | 27 Sep 2006
| | Children from West Hull are working with top jazz saxophonist Snake Davis in a ground-breaking project that fuses modern jazz music with a traditional Indonesian percussion orchestra. | |
| Jazz Summer School on the South Bank | 25 Jul 2006
| | This summer young musicians in North East and North Lincolnshire can take part in an amazing summer jazz experience with Snake Davis, one of the UK’s leading saxophonist and flute players. | |
| Schools link up with Jazz Quartet | 11 Jul 2006
| | Funky jazz quartet, Tetragon, are to visit the North East Lincolnshire region, to work with school children in music making workshops. | |
| HAVE A ROCKING TIME | 4 Jul 2006
| | North Lincolnshire Council is to hold an exciting Summer Rockfest in Church Square, Scunthorpe as part of their Music4U Humber region Youth Music Action Zone programme. The event takes place on Saturday 15 July from 12noon to 5.30pm. | |
| Youth music project success at Hull school | 7 Feb 2005
| | Budding musicians at Winifred Holtby School in Bransholme are taking part in a young persons Youth Music 4U project 'Access Urban' this half term that encourages them to write and perform their own R&B and hip hop tracks in a city centre venue. | |
| Music Jobs for Local Musicians | 3 Nov 2004
| | Recruitment is now underway for the 2005 Community Music for Practitioners Course, run by Music4U, the Humber Region’s Youth Music Action Zone. | |
| Bollywood comes to Scunthorpe | 15 Oct 2004
| | Teenagers in North Lincolnshire have the chance to perform with some of the stars from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s West End hit musical ‘Bombay Dreams’ in an October half-term music and dance workshop taking place in Scunthorpe. | |
| Half Term Fun in the East Riding | 28 Sep 2004
| | Find out more about percussion workshops run by Gary Hammond of The Beautiful South or learn to sing like a pirate, policeman or even Japanese maid with Cameo Opera. | |
| Kids Experience Pzazz in Jazz | 7 Sep 2004
| | The Cleethorpes Beachcomber Jazz Weekend 2004 will open with a special concert for school children on Friday 10th September by one of the UK’s leading jazz funk bands, Dennis Rollins Badbone & Co. | |
| Gamelan Across the South Bank | 29 Jun 2004
| | A group of young people from St Hughes Special School in Scunthorpe are taking part in a series of Gamelan music workshops at The Baysgarth Museum in Barton as part of a Music4U project. | |
| Imaginative Play for Special School | 25 Mar 2004
| | A groundbreaking abstract workshop, allowing children with severe physical disabilities the chance to interact and have fun with music and visual art, is taking place this week at Frederick Holmes School in Hull. | |
| Community Musicians Course Takes to the Stage | 12 Mar 2004
| | Musicians taking part in the first ever ‘Community Music For Practitioners Course’ running as part of Music4U in the Humber Region, will be making their first public appearance in April. | |
| Rhythm House in Hull | 10 Feb 2004
| | Young people from Maybury Youth Centre, East Hull, West Hull Warren and Hessle Road Yoof Network are taking part in a six-week Latin American and African drumming project that culminates in a free public performance at the Mortimer Suite, Hull City Hall on Friday 20 February at 7.30pm. | |
| Bhangra & Bollywood in Hull | 1 Oct 2003
| | Don't miss a fabulous week of Bhangra Beats and Bollywood Dancing with stars from the West End Hit Musical Bombay Dreams. | |
| BLAST Off in Goole | 25 Oct 2002
| | A group of budding musicians aged between 8 and 12 have formed BLAST - a scrap metal percussion band - who will be playing at the Goole Community Fireworks event on Tuesday 5th November. | |
| A Chance to Appear in the Hull Jazz Festival | 11 Jul 2002
| | Young people between the ages of 10 and 13 in the Humber region, have the chance to appear in Hull’s International Jazz Festival as part of the finale event for the ‘On the Pulse’ percussion project. | |
| Japanese Drummers Beat Out The Rhythm | 30 Apr 2002
| | Mugenkyo, Europe’s foremost exponent of the exciting and dynamic art of Japanese Taiko drumming, will be running workshops and performing in the Humber Region this May. | |
| Melody Monkey is Here! | 19 Mar 2002
| | Young children in the Humber Region will soon get the chance to meet Melody Monkey and her friends Crotchet Crocodile, Octave Owl and Forte Frog. | |
| Music4u is On-Line | 11 Feb 2002
| | A new events website detailing all the music activities which are part of Music4U – a major music initiative happening across the region this year – is now available at www.humber-music4u.com | |
| Major Music Initiative in the East Ridings | 7 Feb 2002
| | ‘Echo’ the East Riding strand of the newly formed Music4U - Humber Region Youth Music Action - will be launched throughout the region next week during half term holidays. | |
| Pandemonium in North East Lincolnshire! | 2 Nov 2001
| | African drumming, steel pan music, a live samba band and a steel orchestra are some of the delights to be sampled at the opening of the Pandemonium Project on Friday 9th November at The National Fishing Heritage Centre. | |
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