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Future Leaders: End of programme blogs

Find out about the experiences of our Future Leaders on the second cohort of the programme, which finished in March 2026.

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10 Apr 2026   Music Education
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Meet our 2025-26 Emergent Artists

Introducing 5 early-career Disabled musicians who join us a part of the Drake Music Collective!

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13 Nov 2025   Artistic Development
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A grey and black rectangular-shaped device with 2 rows of silver thumbprint shaped sensors. It sits on a messy workbench.

Accessible Instrument Development Fund blog: Tom Fox & Tim’s Palm

Discover Tim’s Palm, an accessible instrument designed by utilising remote measurement capture, ultra-affordable touch sensing and flexible software architecture, built by Tom Fox.

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14 Oct 2025   Collaboration, Commissions, Research & Development
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Midas modelled on a hand and wrist. A circuit board is attached to a wrist with orange and purple wires linking to fabric finger and thumb caps.

Accessible Instrument Development Fund blog: Hunaid Nagaria & Midas

Discover Midas, an adaptive, wearable controller that transforms any object or surface into a uniquely calibrated musical interface for people with muscle‑weakening conditions like muscular dystrophy.

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5 Oct 2025   Commissions, Research & Development
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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.

Big Malarkey Festival: City Sounds – July 2025

  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 […]

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2 Oct 2025   Collaboration, Learning & Participation
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A man with glasses, orange hair and a long beard standing at a desk, presenting. He has a laptop and a small instrument on a stool, with a lamp overhead.

Accessible Instrument Development Fund blogs: Discover the creations of our 2024-25 grantees

We’re excited to publish two brand-new blogs about the recent work of Hunaird Nagria and Tom Fox!

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5 Sep 2025   Commissions, Research & Development
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BSL interpreter on stage during Daisy Highman's performance with her band. The back lighting is pink.

Drake Music Artist Showcase – Friday 10 October

Join us this October at the next Drake Music Artist Showcase!

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4 Sep 2025   Artistic Development
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Tim Yates, John Kelly and Sally Currie sat on-stage in front of a projector screen at Berklee, with stage lighting shining on them.

Drake Music at the 2025 ABLE Assembly Conference, Boston, USA

Find out about our time at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA!

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23 Apr 2025   Collaboration, Disability issues, International, Music Education
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DMLab North West: The Next Frontier in Accessibility – In Review

Review the action from the Next Frontier in Accessibility event, at our new home, School of Digital Arts (SODA).

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18 Apr 2024   Artistic Development, Collaboration, Research & Development
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A message from the Board of Trustees. 28th March 2024

A message from the Board of Trustees – 28th March 2024

An update from the Board here at Drake Music.

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28 Mar 2024   DM Team

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