Music & Culture in Care: Wales 2022
Save The Date! FREE Celebration and Training Event for Activities Coordinators in Residential Homes, Nursing Homes and Day Centres 29th September 2022 – 10am-5pm at St Fagans National Museum of History, Cardiff (Counts towards CPD) Live Music Now Wales, Age Cymru and Amgueddfa Cymru are hosting the first FREE celebration and training event for activities […]
We’re Hiring! Rydyn ni’n Cyflogi! National Director, Wales
National Director, Wales We’re looking for a highly motivated and ambitious person to help us build on our success and deliver sustainable growth in Wales and across the UK. Contract type Full time, permanent Pay scale £45,000-£50,000 Location Nationwide with bi-monthly/monthly meetings in the Cardiff Office. This role is suitable for hybrid/home working. Deadline to […]
IntraFest 2022 – sunshine, smiles and star talent on show
Audiences in Medway were delighted by the quality of performers at IntraFest 2022, taking place between 15-17 July in Medway. Musicians, singers, poets, dancers, artists and DJs flocked to the Old High Street Intra, between Chatham and Rochester, to demonstrate the wealth of local talent that Medway has to offer. The festival kicked off at […]
Six ‘Round Here performances held across England
Festivities in Weston-super-Mare to launch “Dancing Above The Sea” Six brand-new compositions were showcased in July across six locations around England, as ‘Round Here (a Historic England HSHAZ and Live Music Now project) held its public performances. In Barrow-in-Furness, Brierley Hill, Chatham, Huddersfield, Tottenham and Weston-super-Mare, local residents from across generations spent time reminiscing about […]
Thomas Harvey & Janet Fischer: Queer Identity & the Creative Process
Chief Executive Janet Fischer and Live Music Now musician and award-winning singer/songwriter Thomas Harvey talk about queer identity and the creative process. Janet: Hi Tom. Lovely of you to come and chat to me today. Everyone who’s watching this, I’m Janet Fischer. I’m the Chief Executive of Live Music Now, a national organization connecting people […]
Live Music Now NI has lift off as part of ‘Our Place in Space’
Pupils in special schools across Northern Ireland are having ‘out of this world’ musical experiences with Live Music Now musicians as part of ‘Our Place in Space’, one of ten Unboxed projects across the UK. Centred around an epic scale model of the solar system designed by the artist Oliver Jeffers, and led by Nerve […]
Yoga for Musicians – Yehudi Menuhin & International Yoga Day
“The practice of yoga induces a primary sense of measure and proportion. Reduced to our own body, our first instrument, we learn to play it, drawing from it maximum resonance and harmony.” – Yehudi Menuhin In ‘9 Things you didn’t know about Yehudi Menuhin’, Clemency Burton-Hill writes how Yehudi Menuhin helped yoga guru BKS Iyengar […]
Songwriting in Medway with Age UK
We’re excited to present “From the Dockyard to Chatham High Street”, a beautiful song written and composed by Medway residents and Live Music Now musicians in April 2022. From February to April 2022, Live Music Now musicians, Thomas Harvey and Zoë Wren worked with local residents and Age UK Medway service users to write a […]
Care home professionals explore the power of music with residents
Live Music Now shares professional music techniques with care home Activities Coordinators in a project to deliver accessible training to front line care employees Activities Coordinators from 13 care homes run by The Orders of St John Care Trust (OSJCT) have taken part in professional CPD training in how to use music as part of […]
How ‘The Lullaby Project’ Supports Perinatal Mental Health and Parent-Child Wellbeing
FREE ONLINE WEBINAR! Wednesday 15th June 1 pm – 2.30 pm Delivered by Live Music Now Wales Watch a recording of the webinar here. Live Music Now’s ‘The Lullaby Project‘ is a fantastic engagement model for health boards looking to address perinatal mental health issues and inequalities in maternity and women’s health services. The Lullaby […]
Your birthday wishes for Live Music Now
We’re so touched to see all your birthday wishes coming through on social media. We see you all – from musicians to care homes and from schools to participants. We’re feeling very celebrated, so thank you to everyone who’s wished us well on our journey of creating social impact through music. We love hearing your […]
Clemency Burton-Hill presents Live Music Now during BBC Radio 4 Appeal
On Sunday 22 May, Clemency Burton-Hill will take to the airwaves to present the work of Live Music Now to the nation during the BBC Radio 4 Appeal, a weekly programme highlighting the work of a charity and appealing for donations. Clemency, herself a violinist, broadcaster and journalist, will celebrate the transformative power of live […]
