Senior Moments and Young Guns

Senior Moment: So I almost metaphorically dropped the baby last Wednesday. I turn up to set up – loads of time – feeling un-stressed – until one of my worst possible nightmare scenarios starts to manifest itself. I don’t have the tablet computer that plays the music with me! Massive adrenalin dump, full-on panic. I …

Big Changes to Music Makers Timetable

Dear all, The Grand Sign-Up Session Experiment is over! Basically this seemed like an excellent idea on paper but not enough people transferred interest into attendance. (A really big thank you to everyone who did join the Sign-Up sessions. I know we all really enjoyed them. Thanks for being part of them). So starting on …

Last week before Easter hols!

Dear all, Next week’s sessions are the final ones before the Easter holidays. We finish at St Clement’s on the 30th, and will re-convene at The Edge on Monday 24th April. Our household will be welcoming a new member during the break – a Manchester Terrier puppy called Tierney will be joining us – so …

Music Makers get off to a flyer

Dear all, Thanks to everyone for a great first week. Monday Open Session people: if that was all a bit much, bear in mind that Sign-Up sessions have a limited number of places so they’re never too busy – get in touch if you’d like more info. If you haven’t checked it out yet there’s …

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 …

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 …

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 …