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Doing Music Differently 2022 – Davina Vencatasamy on BBC Radio Leicester
Davina's Interview on BBC Radio Leicester - March 2022 https://www.youtube.com/embed/W0tE3k93VS4 Jimmy: Friday morning Jimmy here with your breakfast. Now this is really exciting. I don't know whether you've actually done this yourself, decided to learn something...
Prabandh – Synopsis of interview 2
Research and artist interviews conducted by Pritam Singh Artists Kankana Banerjee Malyaban Chatterjee Afzal Hussain The journey to research Prabandh Gayan continued with our second set of interviews with our selected three masters. The theme of this interview...
Sounds of… Helen Minors
Listen to the interview: The project's called women's musical leadership online network. And it connects with lots of other pilot projects and a book also entitled women's musical leadership. We started it out as an online project funded by open which is where...
Doing music differently
About this event “As it currently exists, the classical music world is … suffering from a perennial and pervasive diversity crisis” Chi-Chi Nwanoku Music plays a huge role in our modern world and it all starts with people like you. Whether you play or teach an...
Prabandh – Synopsis of interview 1
Sham Veda is the earliest surviving evidence of Indian music, arts, and culture, dating backto 2500BC. Furthermore, there is written evidence from great scholars and musicologists ofthe gradual formation of the universal scale; Vedic chants sung in 3, 4 and 5 notes...
Prabandh – Heritage Lottery Fund
This project is the brain child of Hari Trivedi who wanted to create a project that researched the roots of Indian Classical Music. We are excited to be working with a strong team of experts. What is Prabandh? In this project we will work with communities in the UK...
Brass Of The Saff
“Last Christmas it was lovely, it felt like a real community” - Porsche AntwiImpact of The Brass of The SaffIn 2019 Brass of the Saff received a £29000 grant from Youth Music. Over 2 years the project funded 3 staff members, travel, visiting artists and online...
Do we need changes in music-making?
Written by Julie Hoggarth In the run up to “No Bars_Music” exhibition at Bishop Street Methodist Church, opening Monday June 21st 2021, D+B director Julie Hoggarth explores some of the barriers to music-making and ways to overcome them. This article will discuss...
Free music lessons for all
Author: Davina Vencatasamy Free music for all! This is the cry that comes across at meetings looking at the issues of diversity within music education. It sounds like a great idea, right? Kids who would never normally access one-to-one musical tuition due to the...
‘The moment you realise you never fitted in’… Incivilities
Author: Davina Vencatasamy I went on a walk with my 9-year-old daughter the other day. We had walked from Leicester City Centre (where we live) to Bradgate Park. In lockdown, it has been particularly difficult to get out and go on longer walks, especially in...