I was so pleased to be working on this year’s City Of London Festival and to also have the opportunity to be working with 3 of the same schools and pupils who also participated in last year’s festival. This year’s theme and brief was ‘Street Guitar Concerto and Performance’.
My name is Helen and I’m Drake Music’s Relationship Manager. This is a great job title to have but you may be wondering what I actually do all day…
One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot is what a fantastic team we have at Drake Music. Within that team, there’s so much expertise, experience, so many ideas, commitment and enthusiasm for the work that we do.
Well, we have reached the end of our organisation-wide connecting and amplifying ‘experiment’. In this post I want to share what Drake Music colleagues have shared in April and in May
The Funky Pie Company are a diverse team of artists who love to share their skills, knowledge and enthusiasm with others (NB The film will begin playing automatically) The Funky […]
The 10-week Ramp It Up! project took place on Monday afternoons at Newfield School in Blackburn. Newfield is a school for children and young people with a broad range of special educational needs.
Students from Ash Field Academy perform a rhythm piece as part of their BTEC and Introduction to Music work (NB: the video will begin playing automatically beneath the accompanying text) […]
My week with Drake Music brought about a number of ‘firsts’ for me: working with primary-aged children; working alongside disabled people; planning and leading design-based workshops.
Year 10 students at Great Oaks SEN School in Southampton use iPads to great effect in this rehearsal performance. Jonathan Westrup talks to their inspirational music teacher Kellyjo Peters. MORE […]
I’ve been writing stageplays for over 10 years and have recently ventured into the “devised play”, so I was intrigued and excited to be working on this project. I’m also doing my MA in Playwriting at the momment, so it would be a great experience that I could take into that course as well. So it was great to have a commission that helps to validate my role as a writer and a director.