This September, Scottish charity Love Music will launch its second community choir in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council and Usher Hall. Love Music Junior Choir will be open to 200 children aged between 8 and 12, from all […]
~ May 2017 5 workshops down and 5 to go. There is less than one month to go before our latest presentation and performance of Punkit. The trailer says “an explosive, fun, 20-minute participative music work for massed percussion”. It certainly […]
~ July 2016 The pilot of our new music composition project took to the road in Aberdeenshire in May and June with 50 children aged 9-11 and their enthusiastic teachers. Commissioned by our friends and colleagues at sound and funded […]
~ October 2015 Our Instant Choir for LUMINATE 2015, with Jubilee Care Home Four weeks into our second project with the inspirational Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing festival, and we’re having so much fun it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to leave […]
~ July 2015 Bands usually have 1 drummer and maybe 1 percussionist in tow. We have 60! PUNKIT is an idea crafted with the wonderful percussion soloist Joby Burgess. Joby has been one of those constants in the performance of […]
PRESS RELEASE ~ May 2015 Karine Polwart Trio with the Love Music Community Choir, The BIG Project Youth Choir (Broomhouse) & Dave Milligan, conducted by Stephen Deazley One of Scotland’s most relevant and popular singer-songwriters, the award-winning Karine Polwart, will […]
~ October 2014 In our field of work, professional arts in community and education settings, we hear quite a lot (!) about the importance of building and sustaining partnerships. Yes, yes, all well and good, but its tricky to find […]
~ September 2013 Love Music’s latest commissioned project premieres at the UNESCO City of Music Family Fun Day in Glasgow later this month, and we have taken inspiration from the much loved and often performed “old grandaddy” of children’s classical […]
~ June 2013 Our most ambitious national performance project, A LITTLE BOOK OF MONSTERS, draws to a close for this year in a short tour of the South West, with two very different performances at Bath International Music Festival and […]
~ March 2013 The popularity of our latest project, Love Music Community Choir, has taken us by surprise. With over 400 registering interest within a couple of weeks, we have been forced to restrict the number of available places in […]
