We are excited to further strengthen our existing partnership with Sony with the announcement of a new month-long campaign!
Applications now open for the fourth round of our Accessible Instrument Development Fund.
Join us at the magnificent LSO St Luke’s in London for this year’s Drake Music Artist Showcase!
Could you be one of 5 Disabled early-career music creators taking part in the next round of our programme?
Like many I suspect, my first question about the small, Worcester-based charity ‘Snoezelen’ was ‘What does Snoezelen mean?’ The word – a mix of two dutch words for sniffing and […]
Since I began working for Drake in 2005, I can’t remember a period of time where the musical needs of SEN/disabled students was so firmly on the agenda.
P Scales are a format for assessing progress for students who are operating below National Curriculum Level 1. This useful document (which can be downloaded as a pdf file here) […]
The Grid 2 is computer software that provides ‘an all-in-one package for communication and access’. Within formal music education, The Grid 2 can enable disabled students to use music software […]
ABRSM offer the Performance Assessment as an alternative to their Graded Music Exams in acknowledgement of the fact that ‘an exam is not always the most appropriate kind of assessment’. […]
Application by letter and CV to info@drakemusic.org
Deadline is Thursday 20th October. Interviews will take place week beginning 24th October in Manchester
Here’s a whole bunch of lesson plans for using the Skoog in the classroom as part of the music curriculum from Early Years to KS4. The Skoog is an exciting […]
Last week Gemma Nash (NW regional programme manager) and I attended the Decibel Performing Arts Showcase in Manchester http://www.decibelpas.com/.
The Introduction to Music course is now available! See the web page for details. Meanwhile, here’s how it came about.
Introduction To Music is a new, accessible music course created by Drake Music in partnership with AptEd (formerly known as OCNSWR – Open College Network South West Region). The course can be […]