Young musicians with an interest in Early Music are encouraged to apply for places at a day-long workshop being run by sound52 – Lincolnshire Youth Music Action Zone – at Lincoln’s Bishop Grosseteste College on Tuesday August 7.

A collaborative venture between soundLINCS - Lincolnshire’s music development agency – and the Lincoln Early Music Festival, the Creative Early Music Workshop is open to any musicians aged between 7 and 16 who would like to develop original music based on early themes, instruments and techniques. The pieces created will be performed live the next day as part of the main festival programme.

Steering the workshop will be Early Music specialist Sue Addison, who recently led the BATTLE! project for soundLINCS: this brought together 120 school children with members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and students from the Birmingham Conservatoire in a pioneering project using 15th -16th century European warfare as a context for music-making using period-style instruments, song, costume and movement.

All instruments are welcome to the workshop on August 7, though the session will also include instrument-making for those who are unable to bring their own.

The Creative Early Music Workshop will run from 10am until 4pm, and the cost for the day will be £7.50. Light refreshments will be provided, though participants should bring their own lunch.

For more details and booking information, contact soundLINCS
T: 01522 510073
E: info@soundlincs.co.uk

For information on the Lincoln Early Music festival, visit www.lemf.org

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Notes to Editors

1. sound52 is one of 24 Youth Music Action Zones in England and Wales providing music-making activities to young people who might not otherwise have the opportunity. In addition to the nationwide Youth Music programme, the Arts Council and Lincolnshire County Council, contributors to the project include the county’s seven district councils, six Arts Centres, EYDCP, Children’s Links and the PLA.

2. Youth Music is a UK-wide charity that funds and facilitates music-making for young people up to the age of 18, particularly those living in areas of social and economic need. By 2010, Youth Music aims to have reached 3 million children and young people in a UK-wide strategy to support youth music-making. More information is available at www.youthmusic.org.uk

3. Since December 2000, Youth Music has set up 24 Action Zones in areas of social and economic need across England and Wales. The aim is to provide music-making activities to young people who might not otherwise have the opportunity. Each Zone is made up of established organisations from the public, voluntary and private sector. Youth Music Action Zones cover all genres of music and deliver a wide range of activities including workshops, rehearsals, performances, one-to-one teaching and mentoring. More information is available at www.youthmusic.org.uk