Musical Mondays Merseyside is a series of live online concerts delivered via Zoom Webinar. Live Music Now has partnered with The Merseyside Music Education Hub Alliance* to provide engaging, lively and educational concerts streamed directly into the comfort of your school hall or classroom.
These concerts are a perfect way to experience a variety of world-class professional musicians from all backgrounds and genres. Send them your questions, comments and even requests using the chat function, or just relax and enjoy the music.
The series is fully subsidised and open to special schools in Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, Warrington, Halton, St Helens and the Wirral.
- Concerts are held as Zoom Webinars*, a very safe way of holding an event online.
- Only the musicians & Live Music Now host are visible on screen.
- Say hello and engage with the musicians using the chat function, and ask them questions during the Q&A.
- To get the most out of the experience, we recommend children at home watch the concert with a parent or carer if possible.
- Following the session, we’ll send you ideas for follow-up activities that can be done in school or at home
Sign up
If you have any questions, or to sign up for the series please contact:
[email protected]
*The Merseyside Music Education Hub Alliance is Resonate, Accent Music Hub, St Helens Music Education Hub, Sky Music Hub and Edsential.
Autumn Term 2023
 | 23rd October 2023 |
 | 18th December 2023 |
Spring Term 2024
 | 5th February 2024 |
 | 25th March 2024 |
Summer Term 2024
 | 20th May 2024 |
 | 15th July 2024 |
“Pupils sat together enjoying the shared experience and displaying excellent audience skills (listening, applauding at the end of a piece of music, clapping along when prompted).
They particularly enjoyed being able to send questions (via “chat”) which were responded to by the artists within the concert.”
For more information on working with Live Music Now to develop your schools music offer click here.
Musical Mondays is a series of live online concerts delivered via Zoom Webinar. We currently deliver this series for schools in Manchester (in partnership with One Education), Merseyside (in partnership with Resonate Music Hub and the Merseyside Hub Alliance) and in Cumbria (in partnership with Cumbria Music Service) as well as in other regions in our SW, NE and Wales branches. The series allows us to bring musicians directly into classrooms, reaching hundreds of pupils every session. During the Covid-19 restrictions, they enabled schools to come together in the virtual world for a shared live experience. Our concerts reach on average a staggering 2,000+ children. The benefits of the series are:
- Enabling our musicians to reach a wider audience, providing a quality live music performance to children
across the UK. - Increasing music access for pupils in school and at home.
- Showcasing a variety of musical genres and providing content which could be tied into the model
curriculum.
Feedback from Schools
Feedback from schools has been extremely positive, with increasing numbers tuning in for each concert:
- “It was good for the children to hear music from an instrument they hadn’t experienced before. They enjoyed the different styles of music. They also enjoyed the rain storm as that is what we have been doing in our music lessons this half term.”
- “[The pupils] shared an understanding of how music can help people with neurodivergence.”
- “Children were able to express themselves, it relaxed them, they were focused and enjoyed taking part.”
- “Thank you for the online Musical Mondays sessions, I used it as part of our online “homework” provision. If children couldn’t watch it live I sent a link of the artists on YouTube and asked the children to critique a piece.Thank you for providing this opportunity for young people to access such quality, it’s totally appreciated.”
- “Pupils sat together enjoying the shared experience and displaying excellent audience skills (listening, applauding at the end of a piece of music, clapping along when prompted.) They particularly enjoyed being able to send questions (via “chat”) which were responded to by the artists within the concert.”
- “Just a big thank you, being able to access the music concerts has given us something to look forward to and
something varied, especially while we are not able to get out and about or have any visitors in.” - “Pupils were spontaneously dancing, focusing intently on the screen and listening with interest. Some pupils
played instruments. It enabled us to come together as a shared experience even though the school was in separate bubbles at the time. We had pupils learning from home and in school and all were engaged. Lovely to see siblings joining in too.” - “Absolutely love these sessions- such a treat for the class, and they really look forward to them.”
*Some notes on Zoom:
The concert will be held as a “Zoom Webinar”. This is a very safe way of holding an event online. Only people with the link can see the concert. You will be able to see the musicians but they won’t be able to see you, and you won’t be able to see other people who are watching the concert. You will be able to say hello to the musicians, using the chat function, and ask them questions using the Q&A. To get the most out of the experience, we would recommend that children at home watch the concert with a parent or carer if possible. Following the session, we will send schools some ideas for follow-up activities: these can be shared with parents as well as used in school.
