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Thank You for Supporting Youth Music

Thank you for donating to Youth Music. With your help, we support music grassroots organisations and young creatives to equalise music. 

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Names of Instruments

Explore a handy guide to musical instruments commonly used in early years settings, complete with names and descriptions.

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Planning

Discover how to effectively integrate music into early years planning to support children's learning and development across all areas.

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Exploring and Playing

Explore the importance of children’s music in ey settings. Find tips on enabling creative play, recognizing patterns in children’s music, and fostering a rich musical environment.

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Moving and Dancing

Discover how movement and music come together to inspire creativity and development in early years. Explore the connection between rhythm, instruments, and physical expression in young children.

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Vocalising and Singing

Learn why vocal play and creative singing matter in early childhood, nurturing individual expression and musical growth.

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Hearing and Listening

Explore how hearing influences musical growth from the womb onwards, with insights and tips to nurture infants' listening skills and creativity.

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Managing Behaviour in Music Education

Explore strategies for promoting positive behaviour, and dealing with inappropriate and challenging behaviour in a music education setting.

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Group activities for spotting musical potential

If you can spend time working with or observing individual children, it can be easier to identify their potential. But how do you do it in a group environment? Working with Hugh Nankievill and others, Awards for Young Musicians developed a set of group music-making activities, alongside filming and observation, that can be used to identify individual musical potential.

Rescue The Roots

Without immediate action, we risk losing the next generation of emerging creatives who rely on community music projects and youth spaces. We need to take a stand now, and Rescue the Roots.

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NextGen Spotlight: Lil Trubz

Youth Music NextGen Fund artist Lil Trubz discusses his successful EP ‘Tracks On Tap’, creative collaboration, and plans for future music.

Based out of London, Lil Trubz used his Youth Music NextGen Fund grant to create a collaborative EP with artists and producers from the Tracks On Tap community.

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Nelson Navarro

Elijah Pailthorpe-Peart, better known as Nelson Navarro, is a rapper and producer based in Brighton. His futuristic music style is rooted in hip-hop & cutting edge electronica. Focusing on messages of positivity, empowerment & optimism he has been telling stories with music since 8 years old.


 

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Sarah Angel

Bolton born singer-songwriter and model Sarah Angel has been flaunting her experimental soul sound over the past two years, in her hometown and beyond.

Delving from RnB, Soul to Alternative house-funk, Miss Angel's inspirations range from the likes of Prince, Jill Scott, David Bowie, Busta Rhymes, Kanye West, Andre 3000, Ru Paul, Erykah Badu and so many more, in her own words - ‘I want to create alternate universes with both my fashion and music in which people can delve into and loose themselves

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How To Get Started In Music Production Today

If you’ve ever caught an episode of The Defiant Ones, Netflix’s docu-series about the rise of legendary music producers Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine, you’d be forgiven for thinking that sleepless hard graft mixed with a controversial personality is the essential recipe for making it in the industry.

While the first component (in moderation) is undoubtedly a factor in achieving success – in any line of work – are we to believe that obsessiveness and a win-at-all-costs ruthlessness towards collaborators and rivals alike are also required?

According to those we spoke to across the UK music production spectrum it’s preparation, collaboration and creativity that actually counts.

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Lil Trubz

Self made South London hip-hop rapper Lil Trubz (real name Liam Henry) started his journey in music as a participant in School Ground Sounds’. Trubz continues his passion with music by releasing new music and EPs, as well as continuing to work with the South London music charity, to support new participants on the project, and mentor younger artists.


 

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"A place where I could meet other LGBT people" - Reece's story

Reece experienced bullying at school, depression and social anxiety, which stopped him singing. The Outburst project for LGBT young people in Nottingham helped him to express his personality, make new friends, and begin to consider a career in music.

At 17, Reece hadn’t performed in front of people for three years. But a few weeks after he’d started coming to Outburst, he decided to take a chance. 

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Giving deaf children the chance to make music - Isma and Aisha's story

Deaf children like Isma and Aisha don’t always get the chance to make music. A project run by Yorkshire Youth & Music has given them the opportunity to learn to play instruments and boosted their confidence.

Best friends Isma and Aisha, both 11 and from Bradford, are profoundly deaf and have to wear implants to help with their hearing. They started learning to play their brass instruments in early 2015 through the charity’s Deaf Instrumental Learning project.

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Niques

Cardiff-hailing artist Niques makes garage and R&B soul, giving you that old school feeling. The rising artist has already had Representz, BBC, and KISS radio plays and was featured in a talk with BBC Bitesize. Niques has also opened for Manga and D Double E as well as supported Sam Binga’s Pineapple records tour.

Using the NextGen Fund, Niques will release five songs over the period of a year, one with a music video.

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