Big Malarkey Festival: City Sounds – July 2025

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A young boy sat at a desk in a wheelchair in a large, white festival tent. He is looking at an older man to his left, smiling. On the desk is lots of audio equipment: MIDI keyboards, sample pads, a Mac and cables. A facilitator is sat to his right.
Credit: Tom Arran

 

Back in the summer, we headed up to Hull for The Big Malarkey; Hull’s children’s literature festival, taking place in East Park.

Drake Music were invited to deliver ‘City Sounds’ – 8 accessible music workshops responding to artwork and themes from Square Peg‘s workshops with schools in the week running up to the festival.

We’ve put together all 8 (less than 90 seconds) music videos into a YouTube playlist for you to experience. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did! You can also read the post-festival newsletter here.

 

 

Many thanks to the Big Malarkey Festival and Hull Libraries for inviting us, and to our lead artist, Elizabeth J. Birch for her amazing work facilitating these workshops!