What Once Stood: Dyffryn in Song!
What Once Stood: Dyffryn in Song! is a collaborative music project offering community members the opportunity to work with professional musicians over an eight-week period, to create a unique song for the people of Taibach, South Wales.
Live Music Now NI Awarded Funding from SPAR NI Community Cashback Scheme
Live Music Now NI are delighted to receive funding from the SPAR NI Community Cashback scheme. This support will help us to bring the power of live music to over 600 disabled children, 1,000 primary school children, and 50 older adults and their families, across Northern Ireland in 2025/26. It will also provide crucial support […]
Live Music Now Partners with Person Centred Software to Bring Music into Care Homes
Live Music Now has teamed up with Person Centred Software (PCS), provider of the Oomph! WELLBEING AND ACTIVITIES PLATFORM, to bring the joy and benefits of live music to thousands more care homes across the UK. Through this collaboration, Live Music Now musicians will deliver an initial six-session pilot programme of recorded concerts, each accompanied […]
Join Live Music Now at the London Landmarks Half Marathon 2026!
We are thrilled to announce that Live Music Now is recruiting runners for the London Landmarks Half Marathon 2026! This iconic event offers participants the unique opportunity to run through London’s historic landmarks while supporting our mission to bring the joy of live music to those who need it most. From cultural landmarks and heritage to […]
Bringing Music to All: NWIMF and Live Music Now Cymru celebrate more than two decades of partnership
North Wales International Music Festival (NWIMF) and Live Music Now Cymru are entering their third decade of collaboration – a partnership that has transformed the way communities across the region experience live music.
Shared Notes: Autism and Music Education Research Podcast with Dr Beth Pickard and Alex Lupo
Discover new insights in inclusive music education with the first two episodes of our new Shared Notes Podcast, now live! Listen below 🎧 Join Dr Beth Pickard and Alex Lupo as they share behind-the-scenes reflections on the AHRC Spoke project so far – from the research process to early findings – and what this could […]
Live Music Now Northern Ireland Secures Key Funding to Expand Music for Wellbeing and Inclusion
Live Music Now NI is thrilled to announce that it has secured funding for a second consecutive year from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Annual Funding Programme (AFP).
Online Survey for AHRC funded research into music education provision in Autism Resource Bases
We all know how much music can offer young people. Access to music education is every child’s right. For autistic young people, research has found music can impact: 💬 communication and language development, 🤝 social interaction, 🧘♂️ anxiety and emotional regulation, 🌟 confidence and self-esteem, 🎯motor coordination & sensory integration. But we also understand that […]
Musician recruitment open for our AHRC Spoke project steering group
Are you an autistic musician aged 18 or over? Would you like to help more autistic children and young people get access to music education? Join the steering group for our one-year, AHRC-funded project: a partnership between Live Music Now and the University of South Wales. Your voice, your experience, and your perspective will make […]
End of year school report: the Live Music Now musician’s learning journey
As the school year ends and children take a well-earned break from formal learning for a few weeks, we’re reflecting on the learning journey that some of our musicians have been on over the past year. Our musicians are at the heart of our mission to increase access to high quality music activities for children […]
Live Music Now Awarded AHRC Grant to Expand Music Education in Autism Resource Bases
Musical Connections: Nurturing Musical Cultures in Autism Resource Bases Across the UK through Participatory Action Research We are delighted to have been selected as one of four projects to receive funding from the AHRC Hub for Public Engagement with Music Research, through the University of Southampton’s Centre for Music Education and Social Justice. This grant […]
Live Music Now Awarded National Lottery Funding to Continue Devon Musical Memory Cafés
August 2024 Charlotte Badham performing at Crediton Memory Cafe. Photographer Sophie Dunn. Live Music Now is delighted to announce funding from The National Lottery Awards for All to support our Musical Memory Café programme in Devon. The £20,000 grant, awarded over two years, will enable us to continue bringing high-quality, interactive music sessions to people […]