A New Year for Music Making

Dear all, I hope everyone had a great festive holiday. My orchestra tour to China got cancelled at the eleventh hour, so I had far more of a break than I was expecting! Anyway, down to business. The Music Makers sessions for next week will be as follows: Monday 9th January 9.30 to 10.30 Sign-Up …

Almost there

Dear all, We’ve only got two weeks of our 2016 offering left to go. Where does the time go? This morning Katy and I made our annual trip to B&Q for the Christmas tree. This year we went for a traditional needle tree. It’ll make the front room smell great every morning for the next …

Booking for next half term opens today

We’re going to a six session timetable after half term. The session times are detailed on the Little Music Makers page. We’re shifting away from every session having a pay on the door option. Half of the new timetable will be “Sign-Up” sessions. The split is as follows: Sign- Up Sessions: Monday 9.30 to 10.30, …

That’s all, folks – until September!

Thanks to everyone who has made it along to the Summer Music sessions. We’ll be taking a break now until September. Given Inset Days and the varying start dates of new terms, we’ll get going again in the week commencing Monday 12th September. (Contact me if you want a ‘term time leaflet’ with all the details). That’s …

Successful summer venue

Dear all, Thanks to everyone who made it along last week. It’s always a bit stressy for me when we use a new space so it was great to get positive feedback about how things felt in the Main Theatre at The Edge. We have a much bigger space for Summer Monday Music Sessions so …

Summer Mondays are here

Hello everyone, Firstly, thank you all for making the past year such a success. Good luck to everyone who’s off to start Nursery and school, welcome to all our newcomers. Reports keep coming in of little people making “violins” and playing them at home (the latest version is apparently a couple of sticks from the …

Summer sessions

The Summer Little Music Makers sessions are being held in the main theatre at The Edge. We’ll have twice the carpet space, twice the chairs, twice the shakers and also my big new bluetooth speaker – which has enough watts to cope with summer crowds! Times first session: 9.30 to 10.30 second session: 10.45 to 11.45 …

Last ‘term time’ dates

These are the final Music Makers sessions of the 2015/16 academic year. Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to a great year. Little Music Makers sessions for the final week of the Summer Term will be as follows: Monday 18th July 9.30 to 10.30 in Studio 2 at The Edge Wednesday 20th 10.30 to 11.30 in …

Junior Music Makers (Monday afternoons) to finish

But the LITTLE Music Makers are still going strong! I am sorry to have to announce that there will only be two more sessions of Junior Music Makers on Monday afternoons. I’ve taken the decision to let you know this now because I don’t feel it would be right to continue as if all is …

A Stop-Start First Half of Term for Junior Music Makers

Hello Junior Music Makers The summer term always gets a bit complicated. We’ll kick off the first half of term this Monday 18th April 4.00 to 4.30 in the Youth Centre at St Clement’s. We sing on the 18th and 25th, then have a week off for May Bank Holiday, then come back for a further …