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6th February 2018

Music technology specialist and practitioner David Ashworth has provided a free resource for music teachers which demonstrates how Bloom works

5th February 2018

“Without the partnership we have with More Music, our children would not experience such high quality musical opportunities every year.”

2nd February 2018

Earlier this year Lancashire Music Hub, County Ensembles appointed a new conductor to the Lancashire Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO), Paul Swannell.

2nd February 2018

Scottish pop artist, singer, songwriter and producer Charlotte Brimner from Be Charlotte, along with her guitarist Stuart and manager Louie descended upon Lancaster & Morecambe College to begin a short college tour of the North West.

1st February 2018

On Sunday 28 January the Lancashire Youth Symphony Orchestra welcomed student conductors from Lancaster Girls Grammar School, Lancaster Royal Grammar School and members of the orchestra to their Conducting Workshop.

31st January 2018

In March this year more than 1300 local school children will come together to perform four sold-out concerts at Ashton Hall, Lancaster.

29th November 2017

New Charanga Sing is a major development within the Musical School primary and special school programme and it replaces the existing Song Centre. As well as providing an additional 220 […]

Read More about Charanga Sing!

24th November 2017

On 28 June 2017, Lancashire Music Hub brought together nearly 1000 children and young people from primary and secondary schools, special schools, More Music and our County Ensembles for the […]

15th November 2017

Band members from the Lanacashire Youth Streetband ‘HONK’ were among 23 participants of Orkestra del Sol’s Drums ‘n’ Brass workshop on Sunday 12 November 2017 at More Music in Morecambe. […]

9th November 2017

Music students from Lancaster and Morecambe College, Morecambe High and Preston College have recently been treated to music masterclasses from James Carey, Artist Manager/ Producer at Evoke Music Management and […]

8th November 2017

Huge congratulations to All Hallows Catholic High School for winning Charanga VIP Studio Session’s national competition ‘School of the Year’ for their whole-year rap project. VIP is funded in Lancashire […]

20th April 2017

The popular BBC Ten Pieces’ website now includes an online uploader, to allow young people and schools to send in and share their creative response and content for their BBC […]

19th March 2017

The schools minister talks to the Music and Drama Education Expo about arts as part of a broad and balanced curriculum. Read the full article here.

18th March 2017

The new 2017/18 Lancashire Music Service brochure will be sent out to all schools soon after the Easter holidays and will also be avaialble to download from this website. As […]

18th March 2017

The new Percussion Writer tool, in the successful primary eduction platform, Musical School, helps you get the most out of your classroom percussion instruments. There is an example score, where […]

9th February 2017

Students from All Hallows school in Lancashire have produced a 19-track Dubstep album, all made using Charanga’s VIP Studio Sessions. A group of mainly Year 9 students from the school, have made […]

8th February 2017

The British Journal of Music Education recently published a research article by Professor Susan Hallam and Kevin Rogers on the impact that learning a musical instrument has on core academic […]

31st January 2017

Richard Jupp, who was the drummer with Elbow for 25 years, visited Lancaster & Morecambe College (LMC) this month to hold a drumming masterclass with Music students. The afternoon started […]

9th December 2016

The National Youth Jazz Orchestra will be coming to the North West in January to work with talented young musicians. They will be delivering workshops with Lancaster Royal Grammar School […]

27th November 2016

Charanga has recently launched a new SEND/ASL section within its award-winning Musical School programme for Primary and Special schools. The new Charanga SEND/ASL section is a Scheme of Work called […]

27th November 2016

Music Mark, Professor Susan Hallam MBE (UCL Institute of Education) and a convened Steering Group, have undertaken a research with its members into Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET). The research covers: […]

14th November 2016

Music Mark (a national subject organisation for music) has collaborated with the National Governors’ Association and Arts Council England to create this really useful guidance documents for governors in schools, […]

14th November 2016

LYVE leader and LMS Singing Teacher Emma Williams was interviewed by Youth Music about this inspiring Lancashire group, following their acclaimed performance at the International Society of Music Educators conference […]

4th July 2016

The Strength of Street Knowledge: Hip Hop and Music Education is an in-depth blog post from the Youth Music Network site. The article talks about the growth of this genre […]

15th May 2016

Music Mark has collaborated with the National Governors’ Association and Arts Council England to create two guidance documents for governors in schools.

15th May 2016

Sound and Music, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and Birmingham City University are offering free access to some their resources which include starting points, lesson plans, and schemes of work.

15th May 2016

Lancashire Youth Brass Band receives Silver Award

31st March 2016

In the past year, two masters theses have presented evidence that schools using the Charanga Musical School programme have experienced a significant improvement in music teaching.

29th September 2015

Musical Route: A Landscape for Music Educations

17th March 2015

We have 2 practice rooms to hire at our Healey Grange studio facility in Burnley. One connected to our Recording studio, each room can be set up with a backline […]

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