Make Music Day UK Megamix
Kicking off #MakeMusicDayUK 2020 we have a fab MegaMix of ensembles, soloists, groups and choirs all performing for you! Running Order: London Saxophone Choir – I Feel Good Zoo – Why did you do it? / Abingdon Concert Band – Alan Fernie’s Prismatic Light (Facebook: @abingdonconcertband Twitter: @abingdonconcert Instagram: @abingdonconcertband ) / Norfolk Schools VE […]
Emma McGann
Pop songwriter, topliner & livestreamer Emma McGann, extends her Virtual Tour Experience especially for #MakeMusicDayUK, performing tracks from her forthcoming EP ‘Monsters’ alongside other fan favourites. Having postponed a 21 date tour across North America due to COVID-19, Emma instead embarked on a Virtual Tour hosted from her home in the UK for fans worldwide to […]
Lockdown Sound Challenge
As part of the ‘Create’ strand for the #MakeMusicDayUK programme, we’ve been crowdsourcing short sound recordings from across the UK and beyond. Today, the Lockdown Sound Challenge producers – founded by Harry Wrigley of www.makethenoise.co.uk – have been mixing these sounds together to make awesome new music. This programme premieres these tracks and introduces you to the […]
Plugged Live Stream
Plugged is a place for music makers to share ideas and collaborate. Encouraging wide participation in music making using technology, they hold regular meet-ups, jam sessions, and workshops in and around Waltham Forest. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Plugged have been streaming music performances to online audiences. For #MakeMusicDayUK 2020 they have produced a compilation of these performance […]
Renegade Picnic Celebrates Make Music Day
Renegade Picnic is an independent, DIY culture infused, crowd-funded, volunteer run free music festival. Whilst the festival could take place as planned this year – so they’ve produced this special edit of performances for #MakeMusicDayUK 2020. Don’t forget to give us some feedback and be in with a chance to win a £50 Amazon gift voucher: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/audience2020
Global Song Circle
This Global Song Circle live stream, hosted by Emma McGann with special guests Jane Hanson, Jeremy Haneman and Sabelo Mthembu, explores the power of song and singing together. This stream will include a Q and A and a demo/workshop teaching you how to sing Global Song Circle’s June song – Thina Singumlilo Ovuthayo. There’s also […]
Beyond Skin Make Music Day Special
Beyond Skin is an organisation that deals with social cohesion and peace building community relations through the arts. Over the years Beyond Skin has developed projects with many organisations and artists from all over the world. Due to the pandemic, never before has the power of music been so important to so many. As part […]
Musicity – Neue Grafik (Feat. Brother Portrait)
As part of the London Festival of Architecture and #MakeMusicDayUK, Musicity takes audiences on a musical and architectural journey across South London. This pre-recorded feature from Musicity of Neue Grafik performing from the Albany Theatre in Deptford. Rising French electronic producer, instrumentalist and DJ Neue Grafik is performing alongside special guest Sierra Leonean British poet and […]
The Rebirth of Zamrock
We Intend To Cause Havoc is a documentary that follows the formation of Zambia’s most popular 1970s rock band, WITCH, telling the story of its lead singer, Jagari, whose name is an Africanisation of Mick Jagger’s. Through the resurrection of a music that was forgotten by many and unheard by most, the film explores the […]
National Youth Folk Ensemble Presents…
A special feature hosted by Martin Parker and Phoebe Harty (former and current members) of the National Youth Folk Ensemble, who will discuss their experiences of learning to play folk music and share a short film made on a recent online music making course. There will be also be performances from The Wilswood Buoys, DeFuego and Sam […]