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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.
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Musical Arc’s ‘Equal Sound’ initiative
Musical Arc’s ‘Equal Sound’ initiative enables mainstream school children to make music and create art with disabled people within the childrens’ own classrooms. Sessions are led by Music Arc practitioners […]
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Access All Areas?
Accessibility is often misunderstood as being either all encompassing, or just the provision of ramps.
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City of London Festival
The City of London Festival Walls of Sound project is one of many really exciting projects currently running as part of the London Programme.
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Social media strategy update: Ben Glass in Brazil
Continuing our look at the social media experiments currently under way at Drake Music, I caught up with Ben Glass to see how his is progressing.
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Open Orchestra Performance
The Drake Music team is gearing up for the Open Orchestra performance which takes place in Hammersmith, London next week.
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Brazil – Part One
It was all coming back to me: that time-warped feeling of long haul flights, the airport limbo zone and the warm wall of humidity you hit at the Brazilian exit.
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Call & Echo – Accessible Singing At Stephen Hawking School, London
In this video the Teacher and Teaching Assistants are doing a ‘call & echo’ singing activity with 5 pupils, during a Drake Music/Sounds Of Intent session at the school. They are […]
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The Boy With His Head In A Drum
Curiosity and experimentation are at the heart of creative music making. We wouldn’t have the rich musical heritage that we enjoy in 2013 were it not for all the composers, instrument makers and performers who, over the preceeding millenia have repeatedly asked the question; “I wonder what it would sound like if… ?”