Discussion
More Musical Adventures in Manchester
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
Updates
House of Mirrors Sensory Experience
In partnership with Drake Music, Artist Rob Olins is planning an exciting new multi-sensory experience using Sound Mirrors, to tour special schools in the South West during 2014-2015
Discussion
Drake Music’s sharing and amplifying ‘experiment’
Over the last few months, I have been working with colleagues on ‘experiments’ using social technology to help us better share our work internally and externally.
Discussion
Chance Composition in a RampItUp!
A happy accident meant that Belvue School in Ealing started DM’s classic RampItUp! programme at the same time as enrolling six of its students on our Introduction to Music course
Discussion
Sounds of Intent – halfway through a 16 week course
This was originally posted as a blog by Jon Hering, but it’s such a great example of how the Sounds of Intent framework can be used to assess musical activity […]
Discussion
Time-banking as an initiative for supporting disabled artists/musicians
At a Connect & Collaborate London – Drake Music event at Shape Arts in March 2013, my aim was to involve 25 disabled artists/musicians as a focus group to help us to develop possibilities for finding and establishing structures for support for disabled composers, artists and musicians across London.
Discussion
Drake Music’s response to latest Ofsted music report
Ofsted’s failure to visit any special schools as part of their recent report into Music Hubs and schools threatens to undermine the vision laid out in the National Plan
Showcase
‘Musical Adventures in Manchester’- featuring The Prospectors with Graham Massey
The Prospectors at Band on the Wall Oct 2012. Photo (c) Jessy Garcia
Monday, 24 February 2014
6.45pm
Band on the Wall, 25 Swan Street, Manchester, M4 5JZ
Admission: FREE
Discussion
Introduction to Music at Treloar School
In this short film students and staff from Treloar School share their experiences of taking Drake Music’sIntroduction to Music course. When SEN Music Teacher Jocelyn Watkins contacted Drake Music in 2010 […]
Discussion
Saul’s journey through the Bronze Arts Award
This short film documents Saul’s journey through the Bronze Arts Award. I began working with Saul in April 2010 after responding to an advert in Sound Sense from Saul’s mother […]