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| Seeking Associate Musicians (London) | 12 May 2010 |
| Drake Music is seeking new music leaders to deliver our programme of participatory workshops, teacher training and mentoring in London and surrounding areas during 2010, working on a freelance basis. |
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| Melanie Clifford joins us as Artistic Director | 28 Jan 2010 |
| Melanie Clifford appointed as Artistic Director at Drake Music
Melanie Clifford is an artist & musician who works in translation between film, sound, drawing, broadcast, sculpture and site to think about psychological relationships to urban space: intimacy, distance, estrangement; the extremes of claustrophobia - agoraphobia; the experience of being held in and between registers. |
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| Music Leaders sought in South West | 28 Jan 2010 |
| Drake Music is seeking new music leaders to deliver our programme of participatory workshops and teacher training in special schools in Bristol, Gloucestershire and surrounding areas during 2010, working on a freelance basis. |
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| Drake Music at NAME conference 2009, York University | 3 Sep 2009 |
| Drake Music will be presenting at NAME 2009 on Saturday 19th September under the title:
"Towards a fully inclusive Music Curriculum - increasing accreditation options for disabled students in music". |
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| Disability Equality Training for Music | 18 Aug 2009 |
| Drake Music now offers Disability Equality Training relevant to musicians and music organisations. We can deliver a bespoke training package relevant to your situation. |
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| Artist Consultation for Nottinghamshire County Council | 2 Jun 2009 |
| Nottinghamshire County Council- Arts Service have asked Salamanda Tandem and Drake Music East Midlands to undertake a research project focusing on examining issues for the independent arts sector in Nottinghamshire around disability arts. |
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| Visual Voice Pro launch | 19 May 2009 |
| On Monday 11th May, HMC Interactive with support from Media Sandbox, launched their new product Visual Voice Pro. Drake Music and bibic are partners in the testing and development of the product and Drake Music will receive 10% of all sales. |
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| City Showcase Festival at Rich Mix | 1 May 2009 |
| The only City Showcase event in the heart of the East End, this platform for young emerging talent will operate in true Rich Mix style. Ranging from a punky jazz quartet to a Bengali MC, we bring you 8 live acts that reflect the diversity and eclecticism of London's music scene. With DOLLYman, RedManRed, Sarah Williams White, Avril O'Neill, Mogol Miah, Joseph Yianna, The Grifters and Selina Campbell. |
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| Digital Beginnings | 9 Mar 2009 |
| Drake Music is delighted to announce that Youth Music has committed funding to our programme Digital Beginnings.
Digital Beginnings aims to create new opportunities for disabled children in six schools across London, South West, North West and the East Midlands to participate and engage with making music using assistive technology. |
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| Connecting Across Difference: The Spell | 2 Mar 2009 |
| Public Performance of “The Spell”, 1.30pm Friday 20th March 2009, The V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2.
Entrance is free, please RSVP to christinejanssen@drakemusicproject.org by March 16th. |
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| City Showcase at Rich Mix | 13 Feb 2009 |
| Calling all musicians! Rich Mix is teaming up with City Showcase in a bid to find the finest new music talent. This year’s City Showcase festival runs from Thurs 7 to Sat 9 May. As part of this, Rich Mix is putting out a call to all new and undiscovered artists to show what they’re made of in our Talent Search. |
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| Connecting Across Difference: a four day project at the Roundhouse in February 2009 | 5 Feb 2009 |
| Drake Music is delighted to invite 14-18 year old disabled young people to participate in an exciting music project where you can explore how to use instruments and technology to make music and art.
The project will take place from 17th, 18th, 20th and 21st February 2009, 10:30am to 2:30pm at the Roundhouse in Chalk Farm. It is part of Connecting Across Difference being run by a collaboration of Drake Music and Furtherfield.org. Three artist-tutors, a composer, a music technologist, and an artist will guide the participants in using specialist assistive technologies and instruments to create music and art. |
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| Drake Music at Nordlysfestivalen | 19 Jan 2009 |
| We are delighted that Doug Bott, Drake Music's south west programme manager and Drake Musician Charlotte White are visiting Tromsø in Norway from 20th to 27th January 2009 to attend the Northern Lights Music Festival as guests of the SKUG centre and Tromsø University. |
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| The Princess Royal visits Claremont School and Drake Music SW | 22 Dec 2008 |
| On Friday 16th January the Princess Royal will open the new Wooden Spoon Building at Claremont school. This new facility has been built to house the Pediatric Communication Aids Service (PCAS) and also Drake Music South West. It was funded by the Wooden Spoon Society. |
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| 6th Form students raised money for Drake Music | 21 Nov 2008 |
| Drake Music would like to thank eight students from Hatch End High School Sixth Form who decided to organise a charity gig at their schools called Roundhouse for Drake Music. |
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| Anya Ustaszewski performs at House of Commons | 5 Nov 2008 |
| Drake Music, in partnership with the Employers’ Forum on Disability (EFD), is delighted to commission Drake musician Anya Ustaszewski to perform at the House of Commons on 13th November 2008 at the EFD’s bi-annual networking event for their Gold members. |
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| Drake Music featured on Disability Arts Online | 19 Dec 2006 |
| Drake Music has been profiled on the leading disability arts website, Disability Arts Online. The feature highlights Drake Music's achievements and plans for the future, as well as Drake Musicians and Tongue and Groove. |
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| Jools Holland Auctions Tour Piano for Drake Music | 3 Aug 2006 |
| Jools Holland OBE, the UK's most popular pianist and bandleader, has announced that he is to sell the piano he has toured with for the last five to six years, with all proceeds going to Drake Music, of which Jools is patron. It will be sold without reserve at Bonhams' Autumn sale of Fine Pianos at 101 New Bond Street, London. |
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