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 […]
Discussion
Ideas on how we want to share our work using social media
Tomorrow Drake Music is having a team get together and ahead of it we have been discussing how we can better use social media tools to stay better connected internally and also to better share our work externally.
Events - past
Music Mark Conference 2013
On November 15 and 16th 2013 Music Mark – the new UK Association for Music Education – held its debut conference at Manchester’s cavernous convention complex, Central.
Discussion
Live Music Now’s Musician in Residence project
Live Music Now has been working in Princes Primary School in Liverpool since January 2013 as part of a Youth Music-funded Musicians in Residence programme. The programme aims to support […]