Live Music Now Partnership with the Baluji Music Foundation’s Inner Vision Orchestra
Live Music Now is delighted to be working in partnership with the Baluji Music Foundation’s Inner Vision Orchestra to include 12 of its musicians as Live Music Now guest musicians in 2023-24. The Inner Vision Orchestra was founded in 2012 and is the world’s only professional ensemble of blind musicians. This pilot project will enable […]
Royal Brompton Hospital Ward Music Series
Live Music Now musicians have been visiting patients and staff at Royal Brompton Hospital, London every week since June 2022. Royal Brompton is a specialist centre for the treatment of heart and lung disease. Commissioned by rb&hArts, musicians work in several wards including the adult intensive care unit, paediatric wards and adult surgical wards. They […]
We’re Hiring! Project Manager with Live Music Now North West (Maternity Cover)
Live Music Now is looking for a Project Manager (maternity cover) to join our team in the North West Branch. The branch delivers over 700 events annually – working with schools, Music Education Hubs, care homes, hospitals and other community settings from Cumbria down to Shropshire. This position is fixed term, 4 days per week, […]
Meet the team! Live Music Now musicians running London Landmarks Half Marathon
A team of eight musicians are representing Live Music Now in this years’ London Landmarks Half Marathon. They’ll be joining 16,000 runners at the start on Pall Mall and racing past fabulous views of London’s most iconic landmarks including Big Ben, St Paul’s Cathedral, Nelson’s Column, the Tower of London and the London Eye before […]
We’re Hiring! Researcher: Music in Education, Social Care, and Health (MESH), West Midlands Pilot Project
Live Music Now, Music of Life and Sounds of Intent charity, are looking for an experienced researcher to undertake a pilot project mapping Music in Education, Social Care and Health (MESH) in the West Midlands. The M•E•S•H (‘Music in Education, Social Care and Health’) Survey is aiming to map supply and demand in the complex and diverse […]
Musical Inclusion at the NI Science Festival
Join Live Music Now for an afternoon of inspirational presentations and discussion around inclusive music-making for children and young people in special school settings. Tuesday 21st Feb 1-4pm at Stranmillis University College Part of the NI Science Festival Over 3,000 children and young people in special school settings across Northern Ireland are exploring music making, […]
Live Music Now commissions music for Limavady with Réalta
Live Music Now Northern Ireland commissions traditional musicians Conor Lamb and Deirdre Galway to write a piece of music for Limavady. Live Music Now Northern Ireland has commissioned two of Northern Ireland’s most exciting young traditional musicians to write a piece of music in tribute to the people and places of Limavady. Conor Lamb and […]
Music in Culture and Care: Cymru
“Please help support our voices in saying that activities work! Music is important!” – Activities Coordinator, MIC&C 2022. On 29th September 2022 Live Music Now Cymru, in partnership with Age Cymru and Amgueddfa Cymru, hosted an event for activities coordinators and carers working in care homes, hospitals and day centres across Wales. The event took […]
Count Me In!
Making music as part of a group is a joyful experience, and one which every child should have the opportunity to access. However, for children with complex needs, and the people who teach them, it can be difficult to find a way into group music-making. A new approach, devised by Professor Adam Ockelford, aims to […]
London Landmarks Half Marathon – Join Team Live Music Now
Dust off your running shoes and join Live Music Now’s fundraising all-stars for the London Landmarks Half Marathon in 2023! Date: Sunday 2 April 2023 Location: London Distance: Half marathon, 13.1 Miles Entry fee: £25 Fundraising target: £350 Join Team Live Music Now for the London Landmarks Half Marathon 2023 and play your part in bringing […]
Big Give Christmas Challenge 2022
Live Music Now has been selected to participate in the Big Give Christmas Challenge, to raise vital funds to bring the healing power of music to children and young people facing disabling barriers in schools, hospitals, and community settings across the UK. We believe that every child should have the chance to participate in making […]
Lullaby Project launches at Alder Hey’s Neonatal Unit
We are delighted to launch a new Lullaby Project with the Neonatal Unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, developed in partnership with hospital’s Arts for Health programme. The experience of having a new baby cared for in hospital can be an emotionally demanding and traumatic experience. Through the Lullaby Project we empower families to create […]