MiMu Gloves Demo by Kris Halpin

Kris Halpin is a professional musician and singer songwriter. In 2014 Halpin, who has an impairment that is making guitar and piano playing increasingly difficult, approached Drake Music to work […]

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Graham Massey

Graham Massey & The Prospectors

The Prospectors are a 12-strong band of disabled musicians who’ve been meeting once a week in Heaton Moor near Stockport for over 6 years to take part in creative music-making […]

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Ramp it up!

Ramp it Up! stands for Real Accessible Musical Participation for disabled children and young people. This is a Drake Music Learning & Participation project for mainstream and special schools. This […]

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SHINE

A collaborative creative music making project involving three leading cultural organisations based in Tower Hamlets: Toynbee Hall, Drake Music and Spitalfields Music. Alongside professional musicians, fifteen young people from Toynbee […]

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#DM20 – Word

Word was written & performed by: Mikko Karhu; MC Geezer; Sorcha Hannon and DJ Inigo with Ricco Postawa-Husar; Rosa Burton; Roxy Bee Chernin; Rosie Quick; Sean McConnell and Kaye Wong […]

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Connect & Collaborate London

Video by Ivan Riches featuring interviews with artists brought together by Connect & Collaborate London, a Drake Music Artistic Development project. Connect & Collaborate London (C&CL) was a Drake Music […]

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Seasons 4.0

This short film by Ivan Riches was made at the September 2014 ‘work-in-progress’ sharing of Seasons 4.0 – a collaboration across electro-acoustic music, contemporary dance and interactive technology inspired by […]

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The Brazilian Connection

Collaborative music project organised by DM Associate Musician Ben Glass between Drake Music South West and Mais Diferenças, São Paulo, Brazil. This video looks at the first steps in forming […]

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