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Opera North Education – Octave Project
Opera North Education tailored a four week project of singing, song writing and movement work for a class of KS2 children with ASC (Autism Spectrum Disorder) in Leeds. The theme […]
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South Islington Stroke Club
Gawain Hewitt and Ben Sellers from the Drake Music London team had a brilliant time with South Islington Stroke Club.
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Interview: Drake Music’s CEO Carien Meijer on running the organisation’s Twitter profile
Carien Meijer is the CEO of Drake Music. She is also the person behind Drake Music’s Twitter profile@drake_music. Drake Music set up a Facebook and Twitter account around three years ago and Carien has been tweeting for the past 18 months.
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Social media experiment #3 – Developing relationships with advocates and funders
Following on from my last update, DM CEO Carien Meijer, Helen Mahoney and I had a chat about how social media could support Helen’s work.
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Fun Day in Tower Hamlets number 2!
Last week Gary Day and Ben Sellers worked on our second Fun Day in Tower Hamlets, funded by THAMES and working with the Tower Hamlets Support for Learning Services.
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RAMP It Up! in Liverpool – as a first time Associate Musician
Having just completed my first RAMP It Up! course as an Associate Musician, here are some thoughts and reflections on the experience from a first-timer.
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Andrew Cleaton at The Music Education Expo
In March of 2013 I attended the Music Education Expo at which I had the opportunity to speak at the Drake Music TeachMeet. I – along with a number of […]
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Where have we got to with our social media experiments?
Over the last few months Drake Music (DM) has been carrying out some social media experiments in order to create a social media strategy
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City of London Festival – An update!
A little while ago I wrote a blog about our work with the City of London Festival.
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Tower Hamlets Fun Day
Last week Gary Day and Phoebe Osborne from the Drake Music London Team had a lot of fun in Mile End, Tower Hamlets.